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Zhuosen Wang is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a specialization in studies related to remote sensing and its applications in ecological and atmospheric contexts.

The scientist has contributed extensively to the subfields of global and planetary change, ecology, atmospheric science, environmental engineering, and astronomy and astrophysics. Their work engages with various topics including the impact of light on environment and health, remote sensing in agriculture, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, urban heat island mitigation, fire effects on ecosystems, atmospheric aerosols and clouds, as well as atmospheric ozone and climate.

Notable recent publications by Zhuosen Wang include:

  • Quantifying uncertainties in nighttime light retrievals from Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20 VIIRS Day/Night Band data (2021, Remote Sensing of Environment)
  • NASA's Black Marble Multiangle Nighttime Lights Temporal Composites (2022, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters)

Frequently collaborating with Zhuosen Wang are several co-authors, including:

  • Miguel O. Román
  • Crystal Schaaf
  • Steven D. Miller
  • Virginia Kalb
  • Jianglong Zhang

Wang has published regularly in established journals such as Remote Sensing of Environment and Remote Sensing. Other venues where their work appears include Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, SSRN Electronic Journal, and Global Change Biology.

Best Publications

  • Remote sensing of night lights: A review and an outlook for the future

    Noam Levin;Noam Levin;Christopher C.M. Kyba;Christopher C.M. Kyba;Qingling Zhang;Alejandro Sánchez de Miguel;Alejandro Sánchez de Miguel;Alejandro Sánchez de Miguel

  • NASA's Black Marble Nighttime Lights Product Suite

    Miguel O. Román;Zhuosen Wang;Zhuosen Wang;Qingsong Sun;Qingsong Sun;Virginia Kalb

  • Evaluation of MODIS Albedo Product (MCD43A) over Grassland, Agriculture and Forest Surface Types During Dormant and Snow-Covered Periods

    Zhuosen Wang;Crystal B. Schaaf;Alan H. Strahler;Mark J. Chopping

  • Capturing rapid land surface dynamics with Collection V006 MODIS BRDF/NBAR/Albedo (MCD43) products

    Zhuosen Wang;Zhuosen Wang;Crystal B. Schaaf;Qingsong Sun;Yanmin Shuai

  • Measuring forest structure and biomass in New England forest stands using Echidna ground-based lidar

    Tian Yao;Tian Yao;Xiaoyuan Yang;Feng Zhao;Zhuosen Wang;Zhuosen Wang

  • Land and cryosphere products from Suomi NPP VIIRS: Overview and status

    Christopher O. Justice;Miguel O. Román;Ivan Csiszar;Eric F. Vermote

  • Satellite-based assessment of electricity restoration efforts in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria.

    Miguel O. Román;Eleanor C. Stokes;Eleanor C. Stokes;Ranjay Shrestha;Zhuosen Wang;Zhuosen Wang

  • Evaluation of Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) snow albedo product (MCD43A) over tundra

    Zhuosen Wang;Zhuosen Wang;Crystal B. Schaaf;Crystal B. Schaaf;Mark J. Chopping;Alan H. Strahler

  • Measuring Effective Leaf Area Index, Foliage Profile, and Stand Height in New England Forest Stands Using a Full-Waveform Ground-Based Lidar

    Feng Zhao;Xiaoyuan Yang;Mitchell A. Schull;Miguel O. Román-Colón

  • Radiative forcing of natural forest disturbances

    Thomas L. O'Halloran;Beverly E. Law;Michael L. Goulden;Zhuosen Wang

  • Using data from Landsat, MODIS, VIIRS and PhenoCams to monitor the phenology of California oak/grass savanna and open grassland across spatial scales

    Yan Liu;Michael J. Hill;Xiaoyang Zhang;Zhuosen Wang;Zhuosen Wang

  • Fine-scale perspectives on landscape phenology from unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) photography

    Stephen Klosterman;Eli Melaas;Jonathan A. Wang;Arturo Martinez

  • Three-dimensional forest reconstruction and structural parameter retrievals using a terrestrial full-waveform lidar instrument (Echidna®)

    Xiaoyuan Yang;Xiaoyuan Yang;Alan H. Strahler;Crystal B. Schaaf;David L.B. Jupp

  • Re-evaluation of MODIS MCD43 Greenland albedo accuracy and trends

    Julienne Stroeve;Jason E. Box;Zhuosen Wang;Crystal Schaaf

  • Variability in Surface BRDF at Different Spatial Scales (30m-500m) Over a Mixed Agricultural Landscape as Retrieved from Airborne and Satellite Spectral Measurements

    Miguel O. Román;Charles K. Gatebe;Charles K. Gatebe;Crystal B. Schaaf;Rajesh Poudyal

  • Evaluation of the VIIRS BRDF, Albedo and NBAR products suite and an assessment of continuity with the long term MODIS record

    Yan Liu;Zhuosen Wang;Zhuosen Wang;Qingsong Sun;Angela M. Erb

  • An Anisotropic Flat Index (AFX) to derive BRDF archetypes from MODIS

    Ziti Jiao;Michael J. Hill;Crystal B. Schaaf;Hu Zhang

  • A method for improving hotspot directional signatures in BRDF models used for MODIS

    Ziti Jiao;Crystal B Schaaf;Yadong Dong;Miguel O Roman

  • An algorithm for the retrieval of the clumping index (CI) from the MODIS BRDF product using an adjusted version of the kernel-driven BRDF model

    Ziti Jiao;Yadong Dong;Crystal B. Schaaf;Crystal B. Schaaf;Jing M. Chen

  • Use of In-Situ and Airborne Multiangle Data to Assess Modis, Viirs, and Landsat-Based Estimates of Directional Reflectance and Albedo

    M. O. Roman;C. K. Gatebe;Yanmin Shuai;Zhuosen Wang

  • Estimating the effective spatial resolution of the operational BRDF, albedo, and nadir reflectance products from MODIS and VIIRS

    Manuel L. Campagnolo;Qingsong Sun;Yan Liu;Crystal Schaaf

  • Development of a snow kernel to better model the anisotropic reflectance of pure snow in a kernel-driven BRDF model framework

    Ziti Jiao;Ziti Jiao;Anxin Ding;Alexander Kokhanovsky;Crystal Schaaf

Frequent Co-Authors

Crystal B. Schaaf
Crystal B. Schaaf University of Massachusetts Boston
Miguel O. Román
Miguel O. Román Goddard Space Flight Center
Alan H. Strahler
Alan H. Strahler Boston University
Feng Zhao
Feng Zhao Microsoft (United States)
Curtis E. Woodcock
Curtis E. Woodcock Boston University
Darius S. Culvenor
Darius S. Culvenor Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
David L.B. Jupp
David L.B. Jupp Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Glenn Newnham
Glenn Newnham Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Xiaoyang Zhang
Xiaoyang Zhang South Dakota State University
Tomohiro Oda
Tomohiro Oda Universities Space Research Association

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