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51
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12595
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4663
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1720

Overview

Yuanwei Qin is affiliated with the University of Oklahoma in the United States and specializes in Environmental Science, with a focus on global and planetary change. Their research portfolio includes 134 publications in this field, emphasizing subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, and Plant Science.

The scientist's work concentrates on several main topics including Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Remote Sensing and Land Use, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Fire Effects on Ecosystems, and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications.

Yuanwei Qin has published papers in a range of journals. Among frequent publication venues are the International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation with 6 publications, Remote Sensing with 5, Nature Communications with 4, Remote Sensing of Environment with 4, and Agricultural and Forest Meteorology with 4.

Notable recent publications include:

  • Carbon loss from forest degradation exceeds that from deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, 2021, Nature Climate Change

While several recent papers involve coauthors other than Yuanwei Qin, this scientist is frequently associated with collaborators such as Xiangming Xiao, Russell Doughty, Xiaocui Wu, Jinwei Dong, and Chenchen Zhang.

Yuanwei Qin's research contributions are situated within the broad domain of environmental change and its interactions with land, ecosystems, and atmospheric processes as assessed through remote sensing technologies and ecological studies.

Best Publications

  • Spatiotemporal characteristics, patterns, and causes of land-use changes in China since the late 1980s

    Jiyuan Liu;Wenhui Kuang;Zengxiang Zhang;Xinliang Xu

  • Mapping paddy rice planting area in northeastern Asia with Landsat 8 images, phenology-based algorithm and Google Earth Engine

    Jinwei Dong;Xiangming Xiao;Xiangming Xiao;Michael A. Menarguez;Geli Zhang

  • A global moderate resolution dataset of gross primary production of vegetation for 2000–2016

    Yao Zhang;Xiangming Xiao;Xiangming Xiao;Xiaocui Wu;Sha Zhou

  • A mangrove forest map of China in 2015: analysis of time series Landsat 7/8 and Sentinel-1A imagery in Google Earth Engine cloud computing platform.

    Bangqian Chen;Bangqian Chen;Xiangming Xiao;Xiangming Xiao;Xiangping Li;Lianghao Pan;Lianghao Pan

  • Tracking the dynamics of paddy rice planting area in 1986–2010 through time series Landsat images and phenology-based algorithms

    Jinwei Dong;Jinwei Dong;Xiangming Xiao;Xiangming Xiao;Xiangming Xiao;Weili Kou;Weili Kou;Yuanwei Qin

  • Divergent trends of open-surface water body area in the contiguous United States from 1984 to 2016.

    Zhenhua Zou;Xiangming Xiao;Jinwei Dong;Yuanwei Qin

  • Mapping cropping intensity in China using time series Landsat and Sentinel-2 images and Google Earth Engine

    Luo Liu;Xiangming Xiao;Yuanwei Qin;Jie Wang

  • Carbon loss from forest degradation exceeds that from deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

    Yuanwei Qin;Xiangming Xiao;Jean-Pierre Wigneron;Philippe Ciais

  • Mapping paddy rice planting areas through time series analysis of MODIS land surface temperature and vegetation index data

    Geli Zhang;Xiangming Xiao;Jinwei Dong;Weili Kou

  • Rebound in China’s coastal wetlands following conservation and restoration

    Xinxin Wang;Xinxin Wang;Xiangming Xiao;Xiao Xu;Zhenhua Zou

  • Mapping coastal wetlands of China using time series Landsat images in 2018 and Google Earth Engine

    Xinxin Wang;Xiangming Xiao;Zhenhua Zou;Luyao Hou

  • Tracking annual changes of coastal tidal flats in China during 1986–2016 through analyses of Landsat images with Google Earth Engine

    Xinxin Wang;Xiangming Xiao;Zhenhua Zou;Bangqian Chen

  • Open Surface Water Mapping Algorithms: A Comparison of Water-Related Spectral Indices and Sensors

    Yan Zhou;Jinwei Dong;Xiangming Xiao;Tong Xiao

  • Satellite-observed pantropical carbon dynamics

    Lei Fan;Lei Fan;Jean-Pierre Wigneron;Philippe Ciais;Jérôme Chave

  • 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

  • Gainers and losers of surface and terrestrial water resources in China during 1989-2016.

    Xinxin Wang;Xinxin Wang;Xiangming Xiao;Zhenhua Zou;Jinwei Dong

  • Mapping sugarcane plantation dynamics in Guangxi, China, by time series Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2 and Landsat images

    Jie Wang;Xiangming Xiao;Luo Liu;Xiaocui Wu

  • Spatiotemporal patterns of paddy rice croplands in China and India from 2000 to 2015.

    Geli Zhang;Xiangming Xiao;Xiangming Xiao;Chandrashekhar M. Biradar;Jinwei Dong

  • Continued decrease of open surface water body area in Oklahoma during 1984-2015

    Zhenhua Zou;Jinwei Dong;Michael A. Menarguez;Xiangming Xiao;Xiangming Xiao

  • Comparison of surface water extraction performances of different classic water indices using OLI and TM imageries in different situations

    Ke Zhai;Xiaoqing Wu;Yuanwei Qin;Peipei Du

  • Mapping paddy rice planting area in cold temperate climate region through analysis of time series Landsat 8 (OLI), Landsat 7 (ETM+) and MODIS imagery.

    Yuanwei Qin;Xiangming Xiao;Jinwei Dong;Yuting Zhou

Frequent Co-Authors

Xiangming Xiao
Xiangming Xiao University of Oklahoma
Jinwei Dong
Jinwei Dong Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yao Zhang
Yao Zhang Peking University
Jiyuan Liu
Jiyuan Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Bin Zhao
Bin Zhao Fudan University
Chandrashekhar Biradar
Chandrashekhar Biradar International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, Egypt
Bo Li
Bo Li Fudan University
Martin Brandt
Martin Brandt University of Copenhagen
Sha Zhou
Sha Zhou Columbia University
Guifu Zhang
Guifu Zhang University of Oklahoma

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