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47
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11461
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5687
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2068

Overview

Zhiqiang Yang is a researcher affiliated with the United States Department of Agriculture in the United States. Their work primarily spans the field of Environmental Science, where they have contributed to 67 publications. Their research focus includes several subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Environmental Engineering, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Ecological Modeling.

The main topics covered in their research relate to ecosystem dynamics and remote sensing technologies. Key areas of study include Fire effects on ecosystems, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications, Forest ecology and management, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Forest Management and Policy, and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies.

Zhiqiang Yang has frequently published in venues that focus on environmental and ecological research. These publication venues include Remote Sensing, Environmental Research Letters, Nature Ecology & Evolution, Remote Sensing of Environment, and Landscape Ecology.

Their list of recent papers illustrates the diversity and scope of their research interests and collaboration network. Notable papers include:

  • Demystifying LandTrendr and CCDC temporal segmentation, 2022, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
  • How soil erosion and runoff are related to land use, topography and annual precipitation: Insights from a meta-analysis of erosion plots in China, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Forest degradation drives widespread avian habitat and population declines, 2022, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Highly Local Model Calibration with a New GEDI LiDAR Asset on Google Earth Engine Reduces Landsat Forest Height Signal Saturation, 2020, Remote Sensing
  • Three Decades of Land Cover Change in East Africa, 2021, Land

Zhiqiang Yang collaborates frequently with several researchers, including Sean P. Healey, Noel Gorelick, Matthew G. Betts, Eric L. Bullock, and Raymond J. Davis. The collaboration count shows strong ties especially with Sean P. Healey.

Best Publications

  • Detecting trends in forest disturbance and recovery using yearly Landsat time series: 1. LandTrendr — Temporal segmentation algorithms

    Robert E. Kennedy;Zhiqiang Yang;Warren B. Cohen

  • Comparison of Tasseled Cap-based Landsat data structures for use in forest disturbance detection

    Sean P. Healey;Warren B. Cohen;Yang Zhiqiang;Olga N. Krankina

  • Detecting trends in forest disturbance and recovery using yearly Landsat time series: 2. TimeSync — Tools for calibration and validation

    Warren B. Cohen;Zhiqiang Yang;Robert Kennedy

  • Implementation of the LandTrendr Algorithm on Google Earth Engine

    Robert E Kennedy;Zhiqiang Yang;Noel Gorelick;Justin Braaten

  • Radiometric correction of multi-temporal Landsat data for characterization of early successional forest patterns in western Oregon

    Todd A. Schroeder;Warren B. Cohen;Conghe Song;Morton J. Canty

  • Canopy mortality has doubled in Europe's temperate forests over the last three decades.

    Cornelius Senf;Dirk Pflugmacher;Yang Zhiqiang;Julius Sebald

  • Comparisons of land cover and LAI estimates derived from ETM+ and MODIS for four sites in North America: a quality assessment of 2000/2001 provisional MODIS products

    Warren B Cohen;Thomas K Maiersperger;Zhiqiang Yang;Stith T Gower

  • Spatial and temporal patterns of forest disturbance and regrowth within the area of the Northwest Forest Plan

    Robert E. Kennedy;Zhiqiang Yang;Warren B. Cohen;Eric Pfaff

  • Generating synthetic Landsat images based on all available Landsat data: Predicting Landsat surface reflectance at any given time

    Zhe Zhu;Curtis E. Woodcock;Christopher Holden;Zhiqiang Yang

  • Forest disturbance across the conterminous United States from 1985-2012: The emerging dominance of forest decline

    Warren B. Cohen;Zhiqiang Yang;Stephen V. Stehman;Todd A. Schroeder

  • Continuous monitoring of land disturbance based on Landsat time series

    Zhe Zhu;Zhe Zhu;Junxue Zhang;Junxue Zhang;Zhiqiang Yang;Amal H. Aljaddani

  • A LandTrendr multispectral ensemble for forest disturbance detection

    Warren B. Cohen;Zhiqiang Yang;Sean P. Healey;Robert E. Kennedy

  • Mapping forest change using stacked generalization: An ensemble approach

    Sean P. Healey;Warren B. Cohen;Zhiqiang Yang;C. Kenneth Brewer

  • Using Landsat-derived disturbance and recovery history and lidar to map forest biomass dynamics

    Dirk Pflugmacher;Warren B. Cohen;Robert E. Kennedy;Zhiqiang Yang

  • GEDI launches a new era of biomass inference from space

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  • How Similar Are Forest Disturbance Maps Derived from Different Landsat Time Series Algorithms

    Warren B. Cohen;Sean P. Healey;Zhiqiang Yang;Stephen V. Stehman

  • Attribution of disturbance change agent from Landsat time-series in support of habitat monitoring in the Puget Sound region, USA

    Robert E. Kennedy;Zhiqiang Yang;Justin Braaten;Catharine Copass

  • Quantification of impervious surface in the Snohomish Water Resources Inventory Area of Western Washington from 1972–2006

    Scott L. Powell;Warren B. Cohen;Zhiqiang Yang;John D. Pierce

  • Distinguishing between live and dead standing tree biomass on the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park, USA using small-footprint lidar data

    Yunsuk Kim;Zhiqiang Yang;Warren B. Cohen;Dirk Pflugmacher

  • Synergistic effects of climate and land-use change influence broad-scale avian population declines.

    Joseph M. Northrup;Joseph M. Northrup;James W. Rivers;Zhiqiang Yang;Zhiqiang Yang;Matthew G. Betts

  • Application of two regression-based methods to estimate the effects of partial harvest on forest structure using Landsat data

    Sean P. Healey;Zhiqiang Yang;Warren B. Cohen;D. John Pierce

  • Species distribution modelling for the people: unclassified landsat TM imagery predicts bird occurrence at fine resolutions

    S. M. Shirley;Z. Yang;R. A. Hutchinson;J. D. Alexander

Frequent Co-Authors

Warren B. Cohen
Warren B. Cohen Oregon State University
Robert E. Kennedy
Robert E. Kennedy Oregon State University
Sean P. Healey
Sean P. Healey US Forest Service
Matthew G. Betts
Matthew G. Betts Oregon State University
Zhe Zhu
Zhe Zhu University of Connecticut
Stephen V. Stehman
Stephen V. Stehman SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Chengquan Huang
Chengquan Huang University of Maryland, College Park
David P. Turner
David P. Turner Oregon State University
Curtis E. Woodcock
Curtis E. Woodcock Boston University
Beverly E. Law
Beverly E. Law Oregon State University

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