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2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
64
Citations
23186
World Ranking
2277
National Ranking
83

Zhao-Liang Li publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Zhao-Liang Li sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 378 publications — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Zhao-Liang Li D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Zhao-Liang Li sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 64 D-Index — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in France Leader Award
  • 2017 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Zhao-Liang Li is affiliated with the University of Strasbourg in France and conducts research primarily within the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their scholarly output encompasses 165 publications in Environmental Science and 85 in Earth and Planetary Sciences.

Their research spans several subfields, including Environmental Engineering, Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, and Building and Construction. The main topics covered in their work include Urban Heat Island Mitigation, Climate Change and Permafrost, Remote Sensing and Land Use, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Cryospheric Studies and Observations, as well as Building Energy and Comfort Optimization.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Zhao-Liang Li include Pei Leng, Si-Bo Duan, Maofang Gao, Xiangyang Liu, and Guofei Shang. Their work is often published in journals and conference venues such as IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Remote Sensing of Environment, International Journal of Remote Sensing, SSRN Electronic Journal, and Remote Sensing.

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Zhao-Liang Li are:

  • Soil moisture retrieval from remote sensing measurements: Current knowledge and directions for the future (2021), Earth-Science Reviews
  • A combined Terra and Aqua MODIS land surface temperature and meteorological station data product for China from 2003 to 2017 (2020), Earth system science data
  • Hyperspectral Estimation of Soil Organic Matter Content using Different Spectral Preprocessing Techniques and PLSR Method (2020), Remote Sensing
  • Estimation of daily mean land surface temperature at global scale using pairs of daytime and nighttime MODIS instantaneous observations (2021), ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
  • Spatiotemporal pattern and long-term trend of global surface urban heat islands characterized by dynamic urban-extent method and MODIS data (2021), ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Zhao-Liang Li has been recognized as a Member of Academia Europaea since 2017.

Best Publications

  • Satellite-derived land surface temperature: Current status and perspectives

    Zhao-Liang Li;Bo-Hui Tang;Hua Wu;Huazhong Ren

  • Towards a local split window method over land surfaces

    François Becker;Zhao-Liang Li

  • A physics-based algorithm for retrieving land-surface emissivity and temperature from EOS/MODIS data

    Z. Wan;Z.-L. Li

  • Validation of the land-surface temperature products retrieved from Terra Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer data

    Zhengming Wan;Yulin Zhang;Qincheng Zhang;Zhao-liang Li

  • Quality assessment and validation of the MODIS global land surface temperature

    Z. Wan;Y. Zhang;Q. Zhang;Z.-L. Li

  • A Review of Current Methodologies for Regional Evapotranspiration Estimation from Remotely Sensed Data

    Zhao-Liang Li;Ronglin Tang;Zhengming Wan;Yuyun Bi

  • An application of the Ts–VI triangle method with enhanced edges determination for evapotranspiration estimation from MODIS data in arid and semi-arid regions: Implementation and validation

    Ronglin Tang;Zhao-Liang Li;Bohui Tang

  • Land surface emissivity retrieval from satellite data

    Zhao-Liang Li;Hua Wu;Ning Wang;Shi Qiu

  • Feasibility of land surface temperature and emissivity determination from AVHRR data

    Zhao-Liang Li;François Becker

  • Temperature-independent spectral indices in thermal infrared bands

    François Becker;Zhao-Liang Li

  • Multi-channel and multi-angle algorithms for estimating sea and land surface temperature with ATSR data

    J. A. Sobrino;Z. L. Li;M. P. Stoll;F. Becker

  • Validation of Collection 6 MODIS land surface temperature product using in situ measurements

    Si-Bo Duan;Zhao-Liang Li;Hua Li;Frank-M. Göttsche

  • Scale Issues in Remote Sensing: A Review on Analysis, Processing and Modeling

    Hua Wu;Zhao Liang Li

  • Improvements in the split-window technique for land surface temperature determination

    J.A. Sobrino;Zhao-Liang Li;M.P. Stoll;F. Becker

  • Modified perpendicular drought index (MPDI): a real-time drought monitoring method

    Abduwasit Ghulam;Abduwasit Ghulam;Qiming Qin;Tashpolat Teyip;Zhao-Liang Li

  • Radiance-based validation of the V5 MODIS land-surface temperature product

    Z. Wan;Z. L. Li

  • A framework for the retrieval of all-weather land surface temperature at a high spatial resolution from polar-orbiting thermal infrared and passive microwave data

    Si-Bo Duan;Zhao-Liang Li;Pei Leng

  • Surface temperature and water vapour retrieval from MODIS data

    J. A. Sobrino;J. El Kharraz;Z.-L. Li

  • Inversion of the PROSAIL model to estimate leaf area index of maize, potato, and sunflower fields from unmanned aerial vehicle hyperspectral data

    Si-Bo Duan;Si-Bo Duan;Zhao-Liang Li;Hua Wu;Bo-Hui Tang

  • Soil moisture retrieval from remote sensing measurements: Current knowledge and directions for the future

    Zhao-Liang Li;Pei Leng;Chenghu Zhou;Kun-Shan Chen

  • Evaluation of Six Methods for Extracting Relative Emissivity Spectra from Thermal Infrared Images

    Zhao-Liang Li;F. Becker;F. Becker;M.P. Stoll;Zhengming Wan

Frequent Co-Authors

Ling Bing Kong
Ling Bing Kong Nanyang Technological University
Guangjian Yan
Guangjian Yan Beijing Normal University
C. K. Ong
C. K. Ong National University of Singapore
Xiaomin Sun
Xiaomin Sun Chinese Academy of Sciences
José A. Sobrino
José A. Sobrino University of Valencia
Massimo Menenti
Massimo Menenti Delft University of Technology
Jiancheng Shi
Jiancheng Shi Chinese Academy of Sciences
Zhongbo Su
Zhongbo Su University of Twente
Chenghu Zhou
Chenghu Zhou Chinese Academy of Sciences
Zhao-Hua Cheng
Zhao-Hua Cheng Chinese Academy of Sciences

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