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Yongguang Zhang

Yongguang Zhang

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
59
Citations
13189
World Ranking
3086
National Ranking
1198

Overview

Yongguang Zhang is affiliated with United Way in the United States, contributing extensively to research in Environmental Science with a focus on global environmental and ecological dynamics. Their research spans multiple subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Plant Science, Atmospheric Science, and Environmental Engineering.

Their work engages with several main topics related to environmental processes and remote sensing applications:

  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Plant responses to elevated CO2
  • Climate variability and models
  • Urban Heat Island Mitigation

Yongguang Zhang has authored and co-authored multiple research papers in well-regarded scientific journals. Notable recent publications include:

  • Recent global decline of CO 2 fertilization effects on vegetation photosynthesis (2020) in Science
  • Canopy structure explains the relationship between photosynthesis and sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence in crops (2020) in Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Tracking the seasonal and inter-annual variations of global gross primary production during last four decades using satellite near-infrared reflectance data (2020) in The Science of The Total Environment
  • Progress and Trends in the Application of Google Earth and Google Earth Engine (2021) in Remote Sensing
  • Satellite-based survey of extreme methane emissions in the Permian basin (2021) in Science Advances

Their frequent co-authors highlight collaboration across a network of researchers, including Weimin Ju, Zhaoying Zhang, Jing M. Chen, and Yunfei Wu.

The primary venues for Yongguang Zhang's publications illustrate a strong emphasis on remote sensing and environmental monitoring, with repeat contributions to:

  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • National Remote Sensing Bulletin
  • Remote Sensing

Best Publications

  • Global and time-resolved monitoring of crop photosynthesis with chlorophyll fluorescence

    Luis Guanter;Yongguang Zhang;Martin Jung;Joanna Joiner

  • Ecosystem resilience despite large-scale altered hydroclimatic conditions

    Guillermo E. Ponce Campos;M. Susan Moran;Alfredo Huete;Yongguang Zhang

  • Recent global decline of CO2 fertilization effects on vegetation photosynthesis

    Songhan Wang;Songhan Wang;Yongguang Zhang;Yongguang Zhang;Yongguang Zhang;Weimin Ju;Weimin Ju;Jing M. Chen;Jing M. Chen

  • Integrating satellite and climate data to predict wheat yield in Australia using machine learning approaches

    Yaping Cai;Kaiyu Guan;David Lobell;Andries B. Potgieter

  • The seasonal cycle of satellite chlorophyll fluorescence observations and its relationship to vegetation phenology and ecosystem atmosphere carbon exchange

    J. Joiner;Y. Yoshida;Ap. Vasilkov;K. Schaefer

  • Estimation of vegetation photosynthetic capacity from space-based measurements of chlorophyll fluorescence for terrestrial biosphere models

    Yongguang Zhang;Luis Guanter;Joseph A. Berry;Joanna Joiner

  • Improving the monitoring of crop productivity using spaceborne solar-induced fluorescence

    Kaiyu Guan;Joseph A. Berry;Yongguang Zhang;Joanna Joiner

  • Canopy structure explains the relationship between photosynthesis and sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence in crops

    Benjamin Dechant;Youngryel Ryu;Grayson Badgley;Yelu Zeng

  • Satellite chlorophyll fluorescence measurements reveal large‐scale decoupling of photosynthesis and greenness dynamics in boreal evergreen forests

    Sophia Walther;Maximilian Voigt;Tea Thum;Alemu Gonsamo

  • Progress and Trends in the Application of Google Earth and Google Earth Engine

    Qiang Zhao;Le Yu;Xuecao Li;Dailiang Peng

  • Tracking the seasonal and inter-annual variations of global gross primary production during last four decades using satellite near-infrared reflectance data

    Songhan Wang;Yongguang Zhang;Yongguang Zhang;Weimin Ju;Bo Qiu

  • Model-based analysis of the relationship between sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence and gross primary production for remote sensing applications

    Yongguang Zhang;Yongguang Zhang;Luis Guanter;Joseph A. Berry;Christiaan van der Tol

  • Consistency Between Sun-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence and Gross Primary Production of Vegetation in North America

    Yao Zhang;Xiangming Xiao;Xiangming Xiao;Cui Jin;Jinwei Dong

  • Satellite-based survey of extreme methane emissions in the Permian basin

    Itziar Irakulis-Loitxate;Luis Guanter;Yin-Nian Liu;Daniel J. Varon

  • Characteristics and factors controlling the development of ephemeral gullies in cultivated catchments of black soil region, Northeast China

    Yongguang Zhang;Yongqiu Wu;Baoyuan Liu;Qiuhong Zheng

  • Satellite sun‐induced chlorophyll fluorescence detects early response of winter wheat to heat stress in the Indian Indo‐Gangetic Plains

    Lian Song;Lian Song;Luis Guanter;Kaiyu Guan;Liangzhi You;Liangzhi You

  • Chlorophyll a fluorescence illuminates a path connecting plant molecular biology to Earth-system science.

    Albert Porcar-Castell;Zbyněk Malenovský;Troy Magney;Shari Van Wittenberghe;Shari Van Wittenberghe

  • Estimating crop primary productivity with Sentinel-2 and Landsat 8 using machine learning methods trained with radiative transfer simulations

    Aleksandra Wolanin;Gustau Camps-Valls;Luis Gómez-Chova;Gonzalo Mateo-García

  • Chlorophyll fluorescence tracks seasonal variations of photosynthesis from leaf to canopy in a temperate forest

    Hualei Yang;Hualei Yang;Xi Yang;Xi Yang;Yongguang Zhang;Mary A. Heskel

  • NIRvP: a robust structural proxy for sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence and photosynthesis across scales

    Benjamin Dechant;Youngryel Ryu;Grayson Badgley;Philipp Köhler

  • Projected rainfall erosivity changes under climate change from multimodel and multiscenario projections in Northeast China

    Y.-G. Zhang;Y.-G. Zhang;M.A. Nearing;X.-C. Zhang;Y. Xie

Frequent Co-Authors

Wen-Jun Li
Wen-Jun Li Sun Yat-sen University
Weimin Ju
Weimin Ju Nanjing University
Luis Guanter
Luis Guanter Universitat Politècnica de València
Jing M. Chen
Jing M. Chen University of Toronto
Joanna Joiner
Joanna Joiner Goddard Space Flight Center
Joseph A. Berry
Joseph A. Berry Carnegie Institution for Science
Alfredo Huete
Alfredo Huete University of Technology Sydney
Christian Frankenberg
Christian Frankenberg California Institute of Technology
Kaiyu Guan
Kaiyu Guan University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Xiangming Xiao
Xiangming Xiao University of Oklahoma

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