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Soe W. Myint is affiliated with Arizona State University in the United States. Their academic work is primarily situated within the field of Environmental Science, with a focus spanning several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Environmental Engineering, Atmospheric Science, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

Their research addresses topics such as Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Urban Heat Island Mitigation, Urban Green Space and Health, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Fire effects on ecosystems, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, and Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics.

Recent publications by Soe W. Myint include:

  • Integration of GF2 Optical, GF3 SAR, and UAV Data for Estimating Aboveground Biomass of China's Largest Artificially Planted Mangroves, 2020, Remote Sensing
  • Spatiotemporal pattern of global forest change over the past 60 years and the forest transition theory, 2022, Environmental Research Letters
  • UrbanWatch: A 1-meter resolution land cover and land use database for 22 major cities in the United States, 2022, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Characterising spatiotemporal vegetation variations using LANDSAT time-series and Hurst exponent index in the Mekong River Delta, 2021, Land Degradation and Development
  • Repeated Hurricanes Reveal Risks and Opportunities for Social-Ecological Resilience to Flooding and Water Quality Problems, 2020, Environmental Science & Technology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Soe W. Myint include:

  • Yuanhui Zhu
  • Danica Schaffer-Smith
  • Yubin Li
  • Rebecca Logsdon Muenich
  • Daoqin Tong

Publications have often appeared in venues such as:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Remote Sensing
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Best Publications

  • Per-pixel vs. object-based classification of urban land cover extraction using high spatial resolution imagery

    Soe W. Myint;Patricia Gober;Anthony Brazel;Susanne Grossman-Clarke;Susanne Grossman-Clarke

  • Effects of landscape composition and pattern on land surface temperature: An urban heat island study in the megacities of Southeast Asia.

    Ronald C. Estoque;Yuji Murayama;Soe W. Myint

  • Characterizing the relationship between land use land cover change and land surface temperature

    Duy X. Tran;Filiberto Pla;Pedro Latorre-Carmona;Soe W. Myint

  • A support vector machine to identify irrigated crop types using time-series Landsat NDVI data

    Baojuan Zheng;Soe W. Myint;Prasad S. Thenkabail;Rimjhim M. Aggarwal

  • A comparison of spatial autocorrelation indices and landscape metrics in measuring urban landscape fragmentation

    Chao Fan;Soe Myint

  • Micro-scale urban surface temperatures are related to land-cover features and residential heat related health impacts in Phoenix, AZ USA

    G. Darrel Jenerette;Sharon L. Harlan;Alexander Buyantuev;William L. Stefanov

  • Using Watered Landscapes to Manipulate Urban Heat Island Effects: How Much Water Will It Take to Cool Phoenix?

    Patricia Gober;Anthony Brazel;Ray Quay;Soe Myint

  • Multicriteria decision approach for land use land cover change using Markov chain analysis and a cellular automata approach

    Soe W Myint;Le Wang

  • Enhancing Hydrologic Modelling in the Coupled Weather Research and Forecasting–Urban Modelling System

    Jiachuan Yang;Zhi-Hua Wang;Fei Chen;Shiguang Miao

  • A Simplified Empirical Line Method of Radiometric Calibration for Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems-Based Remote Sensing

    Chuyuan Wang;Soe W. Myint

  • The impact of distinct anthropogenic and vegetation features on urban warming

    Soe W. Myint;Elizabeth A. Wentz;Anthony J. Brazel;Dale A. Quattrochi

  • Environmental cooling provided by urban trees under extreme heat and cold waves in U.S. cities

    Chenghao Wang;Zhi-Hua Wang;Chuyuan Wang;Soe W. Myint

  • Measuring the spatial arrangement of urban vegetation and its impacts on seasonal surface temperatures

    Chao Fan;Soe W. Myint;Baojuan Zheng

  • Spatial configuration of anthropogenic land cover impacts on urban warming

    Baojuan Zheng;Soe W. Myint;Chao Fan

  • Fractal approaches in texture analysis and classification of remotely sensed data: Comparisons with spatial autocorrelation techniques and simple descriptive statistics

    S. W. Myint

  • Supporting Global Environmental Change Research: A Review of Trends and Knowledge Gaps in Urban Remote Sensing

    Elizabeth A. Wentz;Sharolyn Anderson;Michail Fragkias;Maik Netzband

  • Assessing local climate zones in arid cities: The case of Phoenix, Arizona and Las Vegas, Nevada

    Chuyuan Wang;Ariane Middel;Soe W. Myint;Shai Kaplan

  • Spatio-temporal modeling of the urban heat island in the Phoenix metropolitan area: land use change implications.

    Chuyuan Wang;Soe W. Myint;Zhihua Wang;Jiyun Song

  • Identifying Mangrove Species and Their Surrounding Land Use and Land Cover Classes Using an Object-Oriented Approach with a Lacunarity Spatial Measure

    Soe W. Myint;Chandra P. Giri;Le Wang;Zhiliang Zhu

  • Wavelets for Urban Spatial Feature Discrimination: Comparisons with Fractal, Spatial Autocorrelation, and Spatial Co-Occurrence Approaches

    Soe Win Myint;Nina S.-N. Lam;John M. Tyler

  • A study of lacunarity-based texture analysis approaches to improve urban image classification

    Soe Win Myint;Nina Lam

  • Does the spatial arrangement of urban landscape matter? Examples of urban warming and cooling in Phoenix and Las Vegas

    Soe Win Myint;Baojuan Zheng;Baojuan Zheng;Emily Talen;Chao Fan

  • Spatiotemporal patterns of lithium mining and environmental degradation in the Atacama Salt Flat, Chile

    Wenjuan Liu;Datu B. Agusdinata;Soe W. Myint

Frequent Co-Authors

Anthony J. Brazel
Anthony J. Brazel Arizona State University
Ariane Middel
Ariane Middel Arizona State University
Nina S. N. Lam
Nina S. N. Lam Louisiana State University
Patricia Gober
Patricia Gober Arizona State University
Lin Liu
Lin Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Carl J. Bernacchi
Carl J. Bernacchi University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
James A. Voogt
James A. Voogt University of Western Ontario
Le Wang
Le Wang University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Richard G. Allen
Richard G. Allen University of Idaho
Gregory S. Okin
Gregory S. Okin University of California, Los Angeles

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