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Overview

Zhou Shi is affiliated with Zhejiang University in China and focuses on environmental science with extensive research contributions spanning several subfields including environmental engineering, ecology, soil science, artificial intelligence, and atmospheric science.

Their research primarily addresses topics such as soil geostatistics and mapping, geochemistry and geologic mapping, soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, remote sensing in agriculture, spectroscopy and chemometric analyses, land use and ecosystem services, and heavy metals in the environment.

Zhou Shi has authored research papers published across a range of prominent venues. The most frequent publication outlets include:

  • Geoderma
  • Remote Sensing
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Cleaner Production

Notable recent publications include:

  • Mapping high resolution National Soil Information Grids of China, 2021, Science Bulletin
  • Current status, spatial features, health risks, and potential driving factors of soil heavy metal pollution in China at province level, 2020, Environmental Pollution
  • Digital mapping of GlobalSoilMap soil properties at a broad scale: A review, 2021, Geoderma
  • Modelling bioaccumulation of heavy metals in soil-crop ecosystems and identifying its controlling factors using machine learning, 2020, Environmental Pollution
  • Identification of the potential risk areas for soil heavy metal pollution based on the source-sink theory, 2020, Journal of Hazardous Materials

Zhou Shi frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Songchao Chen
  • Bifeng Hu
  • Jie Peng
  • Yongsheng Hong
  • Jie Xue

The scientist's publication record shows a significant involvement in research integrating machine learning and environmental data to address soil pollution and ecosystem services.

Overall, Zhou Shi's work contributes to the understanding of soil characteristics, environmental contaminants, and the application of remote sensing and computational techniques in environmental science.

Best Publications

  • A global spectral library to characterize the world’s soil

    R.A. Viscarra Rossel;T. Behrens;E. Ben-Dor;D.J. Brown

  • Mapping high resolution National Soil Information Grids of China

    Feng Liu;Huayong Wu;Yuguo Zhao;Decheng Li

  • Current status, spatial features, health risks, and potential driving factors of soil heavy metal pollution in China at province level.

    Bifeng Hu;Shuai Shao;Hao Ni;Zhiyi Fu

  • Digital mapping of GlobalSoilMap soil properties at a broad scale: A review

    Songchao Chen;Dominique Arrouays;Vera Leatitia Mulder;Laura Poggio

  • Estimating soil salinity from remote sensing and terrain data in southern Xinjiang Province, China

    Jie Peng;Jie Peng;Asim Biswas;Qingsong Jiang;Qingsong Jiang;Ruiying Zhao

  • Delineation of site-specific management zones using fuzzy clustering analysis in a coastal saline land

    Yan Li;Zhou Shi;Feng Li;Hong-Yi Li

  • Current and future assessments of soil erosion by water on the Tibetan Plateau based on RUSLE and CMIP5 climate models.

    Hongfen Teng;Zongzheng Liang;Songchao Chen;Yong Liu

  • Development of a national VNIR soil-spectral library for soil classification and prediction of organic matter concentrations

    Zhou Shi;QianLong Wang;Jie Peng;WenJun Ji

  • Modelling bioaccumulation of heavy metals in soil-crop ecosystems and identifying its controlling factors using machine learning.

    Bifeng Hu;Jie Xue;Yin Zhou;Shuai Shao

  • Identification of the potential risk areas for soil heavy metal pollution based on the source-sink theory

    Xiaolin Jia;Tingting Fu;Bifeng Hu;Bifeng Hu;Zhou Shi

  • Prediction of soil organic matter using a spatially constrained local partial least squares regression and the Chinese vis–NIR spectral library

    Z. Shi;W. Ji;W. Ji;R. A. Viscarra Rossel;S. Chen

  • Land use and climate change effects on soil organic carbon in North and Northeast China.

    Yin Zhou;Alfred E. Hartemink;Zhou Shi;Zhou Shi;Zongzheng Liang

  • Accounting for the effects of water and the environment on proximally sensed vis–NIR soil spectra and their calibrations

    W. Ji;W. Ji;R. A. Viscarra Rossel;Z. Shi

  • A high-resolution map of soil pH in China made by hybrid modelling of sparse soil data and environmental covariates and its implications for pollution.

    Songchao Chen;Zongzheng Liang;Richard Webster;Ganlin Zhang

  • Application of portable XRF and VNIR sensors for rapid assessment of soil heavy metal pollution.

    Bifeng Hu;Songchao Chen;Songchao Chen;Jie Hu;Fang Xia

  • AIMERG: a new Asian precipitation dataset (0.1°/half-hourly, 2000–2015) by calibrating the GPM-era IMERG at a daily scale using APHRODITE

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  • A spatial data mining algorithm for downscaling TMPA 3B43 V7 data over the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau with the effects of systematic anomalies removed

    Ziqiang Ma;Zhou Shi;Yin Zhou;Junfeng Xu

  • Assimilating satellite imagery and visible-near infrared spectroscopy to model and map soil loss by water erosion in Australia

    Hongfen Teng;Raphael A. Viscarra Rossel;Zhou Shi;Thorsten Behrens

  • A methodological framework for identifying potential sources of soil heavy metal pollution based on machine learning: A case study in the Yangtze Delta, China.

    Xiaolin Jia;Bifeng Hu;Ben P. Marchant;Lianqing Zhou

  • Quantitative Estimation of Soil Salinity Using UAV-Borne Hyperspectral and Satellite Multispectral Images

    Jie Hu;Jie Peng;Yin Zhou;Dongyun Xu

  • Evaluation of Machine Learning Approaches to Predict Soil Organic Matter and pH Using vis-NIR Spectra

    Meihua Yang;Dongyun Xu;Songchao Chen;Hongyi Li

Frequent Co-Authors

Asim Biswas
Asim Biswas University of Guelph
A-Xing Zhu
A-Xing Zhu University of Wisconsin–Madison
R. A. Viscarra Rossel
R. A. Viscarra Rossel Curtin University
Gan-Lin Zhang
Gan-Lin Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Abdul Mounem Mouazen
Abdul Mounem Mouazen Ghent University
John P. A. Lamers
John P. A. Lamers University of Bonn
Adrian Chappell
Adrian Chappell Cardiff University
Dominique Arrouays
Dominique Arrouays INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Stefan Dech
Stefan Dech German Aerospace Center
Christopher Martius
Christopher Martius Center for International Forestry Research, Germany

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