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Yaolin Liu

Yaolin Liu

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
65
Citations
10796
World Ranking
2264
National Ranking
230

Overview

Yaolin Liu is affiliated with Wuhan University in China and has contributed extensively to the field of Environmental Science, with a particular focus on global and planetary change, transportation, ecology, health, toxicology, mutagenesis, and environmental engineering. Their work emphasizes the intersection of land use, ecosystem services, and urban systems.

Their main topics of research include:

  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Urban Transport and Accessibility
  • Urban Green Space and Health
  • Soil Geostatistics and Mapping
  • Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
  • Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture

Yaolin Liu has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Zhaomin Tong
  • Yanfang Liu
  • Rui An
  • Yiyun Chen
  • Yanchi Lu

The scientist has published research in a variety of venues, with a notable concentration in:

  • Journal of Cleaner Production
  • Sustainable Cities and Society
  • Land
  • Geoderma
  • Land Use Policy

Among recent publications authored or co-authored by Yaolin Liu are:

  • "The spatial integration and coordinated industrial development of urban agglomerations in the Yangtze River Economic Belt, China" (2020), published in Cities
  • "What factors affect the synergy and tradeoff between ecosystem services, and how, from a geospatial perspective?" (2020), published in Journal of Cleaner Production
  • "Comparing laboratory and airborne hyperspectral data for the estimation and mapping of topsoil organic carbon: Feature selection coupled with random forest" (2020), published in Soil and Tillage Research
  • "Evolution of the Prevalence of Myopia among Taiwanese Schoolchildren" (2020), published in Ophthalmology
  • "Exploring the potential of airborne hyperspectral image for estimating topsoil organic carbon: Effects of fractional-order derivative and optimal band combination algorithm" (2020), published in Geoderma

The body of Yaolin Liu's work reflects an interdisciplinary approach that integrates environmental science with urban and industrial development studies, geospatial analysis, and health-related environmental topics. This diversity is also expressed in their publication record, spanning journals focused on environmental sustainability, urban development, and soil science.

Best Publications

  • Visible and near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy-an alternative for monitoring soil contamination by heavy metals.

    Tiezhu Shi;Yiyun Chen;Yaolin Liu;Guofeng Wu;Guofeng Wu

  • What factors affect the synergy and tradeoff between ecosystem services, and how, from a geospatial perspective?

    Ziyi Zhang;Yanfang Liu;Yiheng Wang;Yaolin Liu

  • Urban expansion and form changes across African cities with a global outlook: Spatiotemporal analysis of urban land densities

    Gang Xu;Ting Dong;Patrick Brandful Cobbinah;Patrick Brandful Cobbinah;Limin Jiao

  • Application of fractional-order derivative in the quantitative estimation of soil organic matter content through visible and near-infrared spectroscopy

    Yongsheng Hong;Yaolin Liu;Yiyun Chen;Yanfang Liu

  • A bibliometric study of earthquake research: 1900–2010

    Xingjian Liu;Xingjian Liu;F. Benjamin Zhan;Song Hong;Beibei Niu

  • Socioeconomic drivers of forest loss and fragmentation: A comparison between different land use planning schemes and policy implications

    Yaolin Liu;Yuhao Feng;Zhe Zhao;Qianwen Zhang

  • The spatial integration and coordinated industrial development of urban agglomerations in the Yangtze River Economic Belt, China

    Yaolin Liu;Xianghui Zhang;Xingyu Pan;Xiuxin Ma

  • Methods and strategy for modeling daily global solar radiation with measured meteorological data – A case study in Nanchang station, China

    Guofeng Wu;Guofeng Wu;Yaolin Liu;Tiejun Wang

  • Concurrent monitoring of vessels and water turbidity enhances the strength of evidence in remotely sensed dredging impact assessment

    Guofeng Wu;Jan de Leeuw;Andrew K. Skidmore;Herbert H.T. Prins

  • A comparative analysis of urban and rural construction land use change and driving forces: Implications for urban–rural coordination development in Wuhan, Central China

    Yaolin Liu;Ti Luo;Zhongqiu Liu;Xuesong Kong

  • Geographic Field Model based hedonic valuation of urban open spaces in Wuhan, China

    Limin Jiao;Yaolin Liu

  • Urban growth and its determinants across the Wuhan urban agglomeration, central China

    Ronghui Tan;Yaolin Liu;Yanfang Liu;Qingsong He

  • A land-use spatial optimization model based on genetic optimization and game theory

    Yaolin Liu;Yaolin Liu;Wei Tang;Jianhua He;Jianhua He;Yanfang Liu;Yanfang Liu

  • Characterization and spatial modeling of urban sprawl in the Wuhan Metropolitan Area, China

    Chen Zeng;Chen Zeng;Yaolin Liu;Alfred Stein;Limin Jiao

  • A novel framework for rural homestead land transfer under collective ownership in China

    Xuesong Kong;Yaolin Liu;Ping Jiang;Yasi Tian

  • A counterfactual scenario simulation approach for assessing the impact of farmland preservation policies on urban sprawl and food security in a major grain-producing area of China

    Jianhua He;Jianhua He;Yaolin Liu;Yaolin Liu;Yan Yu;Wenwu Tang

  • Multi-order Landscape Expansion Index: Characterizing urban expansion dynamics

    Limin Jiao;Lifan Mao;Yaolin Liu

  • Rapid identification of soil organic matter level via visible and near-infrared spectroscopy: Effects of two-dimensional correlation coefficient and extreme learning machine

    Yongsheng Hong;Yongsheng Hong;Songchao Chen;Songchao Chen;Yong Zhang;Yiyun Chen;Yiyun Chen

  • Estimating spatiotemporal variations of city-level energy-related CO2 emissions: An improved disaggregating model based on vegetation adjusted nighttime light data

    Xiaoping Liu;Jinpei Ou;Shaojian Wang;Xia Li

  • Comparison of MODIS and Landsat TM5 images for mapping tempo-spatial dynamics of Secchi disk depths in Poyang Lake National Nature Reserve, China

    GuofenG Wu;Jan De Leeuw;Andrew K. Skidmore;Herbert H. T. Prins

  • Identifying the relationship between urban land expansion and human activities in the Yangtze River Economic Belt, China

    Yaolin Liu;Xianghui Zhang;Xuesong Kong;Rui Wang

  • China's food security soiled by contamination.

    Yaolin Liu;Cheng Wen;Xingjian Liu

  • Combination of fractional order derivative and memory-based learning algorithm to improve the estimation accuracy of soil organic matter by visible and near-infrared spectroscopy

    Yongsheng Hong;Yongsheng Hong;Songchao Chen;Songchao Chen;Yaolin Liu;Yong Zhang

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew K. Skidmore
Andrew K. Skidmore University of Twente
Xiaoping Liu
Xiaoping Liu Sun Yat-sen University
Herbert H. T. Prins
Herbert H. T. Prins Wageningen University & Research
Hongtao Duan
Hongtao Duan Chinese Academy of Sciences
Ben Derudder
Ben Derudder KU Leuven
Yan Song
Yan Song University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Huanfeng Shen
Huanfeng Shen Wuhan University
Deren Li
Deren Li Wuhan University
Abdul Mounem Mouazen
Abdul Mounem Mouazen Ghent University
Tiejun Wang
Tiejun Wang University of Twente

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