Dr. Guoqing Sun

 
Education

Ph.D.  Geography,University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, 1990.
M.Sc.  Remote Sensing, Nanjing University, China, 1981.
B.Sc.   Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, China, 1970.

Research Interests

• Radar Backscatter and Lidar Waveform Modeling of Vegetated Surface
• Data Fusion for 3-D Forest Parameters Retrieval
• Land Cover and Land Use Change and the Effects on carbon Cycle and Forest Ecosystem

• Comparative Studies on Carbon Dynamics in Disturbed Forest Ecosystems: Eastern Russia and Northeastern China, PI, NASA.
• Multi-sensor Remote Sensing Data Fusion For Forest Dynamics and Carborn Cycle Studies in Siberia Forests, PI, NASA.

Representative Papers

Sun, G., K. J. Ranson, V. I. Kharuk, and K. Kovacs, (2003)

Validation of surface height from Shuttle Radar Topography Mission using Shuttle Laser Altimeter.
Remote Sensing of Environment, 88(4),401-411.

Sun, G., K. J. Ranson, and V. I. Kharuk, (2002)

Radiometric slope correction for forest biomass estimation from SAR data in Western Sayani mountains, Siberia.
Remote Sensing of Environment, vol.79, 279-287.

Sun, G. and K. J. Ranson, (2000)

Modeling lidar returns from forest canopies
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol.38, 2617-2626.

Sun, G., K. J. Ranson, J. Bufton and M. Roth,(2000)

Use of Shuttle Laser Altimeter (SLA) data as tie points for reducing the error of INSAR generated digital elevation model,
Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 66(1), 81-85.

Ranson, K.J. , G. Sun, J. F. Weishampel, and R. G. Knox, (1997)

Forest biomass from combined ecosystem and radar backscatter modeling
Remote Sensing of Environment, vol.59, 118-133.

Sun, G. and K. J. Ranson, (1995)

A three-dimensional radar backscatter model of forest canopies
IEEE Transaction on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 33(2), 372-382.

Sun, G., D. S. Simonett, and A. H. Strahler, (1991)

A radar backscatter model for discontinuous coniferous forests
IEEE Transaction on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 29(4), 639-650.