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Overview

Zhiliang Zhu is affiliated with the United States Geological Survey in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science with a detailed concentration on global and planetary change, ecology, environmental engineering, nature and landscape conservation, and atmospheric science.

The major topics within their body of work include:

  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Land use and ecosystem services
  • Remote sensing in agriculture
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Remote sensing and LiDAR applications
  • Plant water relations and carbon dynamics
  • Atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics

Zhu has contributed to various publication venues, with frequent appearances including:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • International Journal of Remote Sensing
  • Geophysical Monograph
  • Remote Sensing of Environment

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Zhu are:

  • Mapping global urban boundaries from the global artificial impervious area (GAIA) data, 2020, Environmental Research Letters
  • Soil moisture content retrieval from Landsat 8 data using ensemble learning, 2022, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
  • Detection and characterization of coastal tidal wetland change in the northeastern US using Landsat time series, 2022, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Active forest management accelerates carbon storage in plantation forests in Lishui, southern China, 2022, Forest Ecosystems
  • Surface soil temperature seasonal variation estimation in a forested area using combined satellite observations and in-situ measurements, 2020, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Zhu frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Peng Gong
  • Todd J. Hawbaker
  • Jinxun Liu
  • Hong S. He
  • Paul D. Henne

Best Publications

  • Status and distribution of mangrove forests of the world using earth observation satellite data

    Chandra Giri;E. Ochieng;Larry L. Tieszen;Zhi-Liang Zhu

  • DEVELOPMENT OF A GLOBAL LAND COVER CHARACTERISTICS DATABASE AND IGBP DISCOVER FROM 1 KM AVHRR DATA

    Thomas R. Loveland;B.C. Reed;Jesslyn F. Brown;D.O. Ohlen

  • Finer resolution observation and monitoring of global land cover: first mapping results with Landsat TM and ETM+ data

    Peng Gong;Jie Wang;Le Yu;Yongchao Zhao

  • Stable classification with limited sample: transferring a 30-m resolution sample set collected in 2015 to mapping 10-m resolution global land cover in 2017

    Peng Gong;Han Liu;Meinan Zhang;Congcong Li

  • An automated approach for reconstructing recent forest disturbance history using dense Landsat time series stacks

    Chengquan Huang;Samuel N. Goward;Jeffrey G. Masek;Nancy Thomas

  • Monitoring mangrove forest dynamics of the Sundarbans in Bangladesh and India using multi-temporal satellite data from 1973 to 2000

    Chandra Giri;Bruce Pengra;Zhiliang Zhu;Ashbindu Singh

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

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

  • A comparative analysis of the Global Land Cover 2000 and MODIS land cover data sets

    Chandra Giri;Zhiliang Zhu;Bradley Reed

  • Mapping essential urban land use categories in China (EULUC-China): preliminary results for 2018

    Peng Gong;Bin Chen;Xuecao Li;Han Liu

  • Mangrove forest distributions and dynamics (1975–2005) of the tsunami-affected region of Asia†

    C. Giri;Z. Zhu;L. L. Tieszen;A. Singh

  • Mapping major land cover dynamics in Beijing using all Landsat images in Google Earth Engine

    Huabing Huang;Yanlei Chen;Nicholas Clinton;Jie Wang

  • An analysis of the IGBP global land-cover characterization process

    Thomas R. Loveland;Zhiliang Zhu;Donald O. Ohlen;Jesslyn F. Brown

  • U.S. forest types and predicted percent forest cover from AVHRR data

    Zhiliang Zhu;D. L. Evans

  • Land cover mapping of North and Central America—Global Land Cover 2000

    Rasim Latifovic;Zhi-Liang Zhu;Josef Cihlar;Chandra Giri

  • Automated masking of cloud and cloud shadow for forest change analysis using Landsat images

    Chengquan Huang;Nancy Thomas;Samuel N. Goward;Jeffrey G. Masek

  • Dynamics of national forests assessed using the Landsat record: Case studies in eastern United States

    Chengquan Huang;Samuel N. Goward;Karen Schleeweis;Nancy Thomas

  • Detection rates of the MODIS active fire product in the United States

    Todd J. Hawbaker;Volker C. Radeloff;Alexandra D. Syphard;Zhiliang Zhu

  • Scenarios of land use and land cover change in the conterminous United States: Utilizing the special report on emission scenarios at ecoregional scales

    Benjamin M. Sleeter;Terry L. Sohl;Michelle A. Bouchard;Ryan R. Reker

  • Monitoring forest changes in the southwestern United States using multitemporal Landsat data

    James E. Vogelmann;Brian L. Tolk;Zhiliang Zhu

  • The first all-season sample set for mapping global land cover with Landsat-8 data

    Congcong Li;Congcong Li;Peng Gong;Jie Wang;Zhiliang Zhu

  • Meta-discoveries from a synthesis of satellite-based land-cover mapping research

    Le Yu;Lu Liang;Jie Wang;Yuanyuan Zhao

Frequent Co-Authors

Peng Gong
Peng Gong University of Hong Kong
Todd J. Hawbaker
Todd J. Hawbaker United States Geological Survey
Hong S. He
Hong S. He University of Missouri
Chengquan Huang
Chengquan Huang University of Maryland, College Park
Nicholas Clinton
Nicholas Clinton Google (United States)
Le Yu
Le Yu Tsinghua University
James E. Vogelmann
James E. Vogelmann United States Geological Survey
Shuguang Liu
Shuguang Liu Central South University of Forestry and Technology
Xuecao Li
Xuecao Li China Agricultural University
Stephen V. Stehman
Stephen V. Stehman SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry

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