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20542
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1482
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Overview

Yuyu Zhou is affiliated with Iowa State University in the United States and is active in the field of Environmental Science, with a research output spanning 299 publications. Their work covers several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Ecology, and Atmospheric Science.

The main topics of their research include:

  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Urban Heat Island Mitigation
  • Impact of Light on Environment and Health
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Urban Green Space and Health
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Climate variability and models

Zhou has contributed to multiple papers with notable titles such as:

  • "An extended time series (2000-2018) of global NPP-VIIRS-like nighttime light data from a cross-sensor calibration" (2021) published in Earth System Science Data
  • "Mapping global urban boundaries from the global artificial impervious area (GAIA) data" (2020) published in Environmental Research Letters
  • "A harmonized global nighttime light dataset 1992-2018" (2020) published in Scientific Data
  • "Quantization of the coupling mechanism between eco-environmental quality and urbanization from multisource remote sensing data" (2021) published in Journal of Cleaner Production
  • "Mapping urban dynamics (1992-2018) in Southeast Asia using consistent nighttime light data from DMSP and VIIRS" (2020) published in Remote Sensing of Environment

Zhou frequently publishes in venues such as Harvard Dataverse, Remote Sensing of Environment, Earth System Science Data, Remote Sensing, and SSRN Electronic Journal.

Collaborations are a significant aspect of their research, with frequent co-authors including Xuecao Li, Bailang Yu, Zuoqi Chen, Chengshu Yang, and Xingjian Qian.

Best Publications

  • Annual maps of global artificial impervious area (GAIA) between 1985 and 2018

    Peng Gong;Xuecao Li;Jie Wang;Jie Wang;Yuqi Bai

  • Satellite Remote Sensing of Surface Urban Heat Islands: Progress, Challenges, and Perspectives

    Decheng Zhou;Jingfeng Xiao;Stefania Bonafoni;Christian Berger

  • An extended time series (2000–2018) of global NPP-VIIRS-like nighttime light data from a cross-sensor calibration

    Zuoqi Chen;Bailang Yu;Chengshu Yang;Yuyu Zhou

  • Mapping global urban boundaries from the global artificial impervious area (GAIA) data

    Xuecao Li;Peng Gong;Yuyu Zhou;Jie Wang;Jie Wang

  • Urban heat island impacts on building energy consumption: A review of approaches and findings

    Xiaoma Li;Xiaoma Li;Yuyu Zhou;Sha Yu;Gensuo Jia

  • High Resolution Fossil Fuel Combustion CO2 Emission Fluxes for the United States

    Kevin R. Gurney;Daniel L. Mendoza;Yuyu Zhou;Marc L. Fischer

  • A harmonized global nighttime light dataset 1992-2018.

    Xuecao Li;Yuyu Zhou;Min Zhao;Xia Zhao

  • Global scenarios of urban density and its impacts on building energy use through 2050

    Burak Güneralp;Yuyu Zhou;Diana Ürge-Vorsatz;Mukesh Gupta

  • Global urban signatures of phenotypic change in animal and plant populations.

    Marina Alberti;Cristian Correa;John M. Marzluff;Andrew P. Hendry

  • How much of the world’s land has been urbanized, really? A hierarchical framework for avoiding confusion

    Zhifeng Liu;Chunyang He;Yuyu Zhou;Jianguo Wu;Jianguo Wu

  • Understanding an urbanizing planet: Strategic directions for remote sensing

    Zhe Zhu;Yuyu Zhou;Karen C. Seto;Eleanor C. Stokes

  • A cluster-based method to map urban area from DMSP/OLS nightlights

    Yuyu Zhou;Steven J. Smith;Christopher Elvidge;Kaiguang Zhao

  • The surface urban heat island response to urban expansion: A panel analysis for the conterminous United States

    Xiaoma Li;Yuyu Zhou;Ghassem R. Asrar;Marc Imhoff

  • Applications of Satellite Remote Sensing of Nighttime Light Observations: Advances, Challenges, and Perspectives

    Min Zhao;Yuyu Zhou;Xuecao Li;Wenting Cao

  • A global map of urban extent from nightlights

    Yuyu Zhou;Steven J. Smith;Kaiguang Zhao;Marc L. Imhoff

  • Modeling urban building energy use: A review of modeling approaches and procedures

    Wenliang Li;Yuyu Zhou;Kristen Cetin;Jiyong Eom

  • Modeling energy consumption and CO2 emissions at the urban scale: Methodological challenges and insights from the United States

    Lily Parshall;Kevin Gurney;Stephen A. Hammer;Daniel Mendoza

  • A new method to quantify surface urban heat island intensity.

    Huidong Li;Yuyu Zhou;Xiaoma Li;Lin Meng

  • Quantification of fossil fuel CO2 emissions on the building/street scale for a large U.S. City

    Kevin R. Gurney;Igor Razlivanov;Yang Song;Yuyu Zhou

  • A global record of annual urban dynamics (1992-2013) from nighttime lights

    Yuyu Zhou;Xuecao Li;Ghassem R. Asrar;Steven J. Smith

Frequent Co-Authors

Xuecao Li
Xuecao Li China Agricultural University
Ghassem R. Asrar
Ghassem R. Asrar Universities Space Research Association
Leon Clarke
Leon Clarke University of Maryland, College Park
Xuesong Zhang
Xuesong Zhang Agricultural Research Service
Kevin R. Gurney
Kevin R. Gurney Northern Arizona University
Kaiguang Zhao
Kaiguang Zhao The Ohio State University
Allison M. Thomson
Allison M. Thomson University of Maryland, College Park
Bailang Yu
Bailang Yu East China Normal University
Jiafu Mao
Jiafu Mao Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Katherine Calvin
Katherine Calvin Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

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