Dr. Shunlin Liang

 
Education

PhD  Remote Sensing and GIS, Boston University, 1993
MS   Remote Sensing and GIS, Nanjing University, 1986
BS    Computer Cartography, Nanjing University, 1983

Research Interests

• Land Surface Data Assimilation
• Radiative Transfer Modeling of the Atmosphere, Canopy and Soil
• Biophysical and Geophysical Parameter Retrieval from Remotely Sensed Data
• Spatial Data Handling and Analysis

• "Mapping high-resolution land surface radiative fluxes from MODIS", NASA
• "Land surface thermal infrared emissivity database development and modeling for operational weather prediction and climate models",NOAA
• "Developing GOES-R land surface albedo product", NOAA
• "Accessing Chinese satellite data products for land applications", NASA

Representative Papers

Liang, S., Quantitative Remote Sensing of Land Surfaces, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 534 pages, 2004.

 

Liang, S. (editor), Advances in Land Remote Sensing: System, Modeling, Inversion and Applications, Springer, 2008, ISBN 978-1-4020-6449-4.
Wang, K., R. Dickinson, S. Liang, (2009), Clear-sky visibility has decreased over land globally from 1973 to 2007, Science, 323, 1468-1470

 

Liang, S., (2007),  Recent Developments in Estimating Land Surface Biogeophysical Variables from Optical Remote Sensing, Progress in Physical Geography, 31(5):501-516.

 

Liang, S., T. Zheng, R. Liu, H. Fang, S. C. Tsay, S. Running, (2006), Estimation of incident Photosynthetically Active Radiation from MODIS Data, Journal of Geophysical Research -Atmosphere, 111, D15208,doi:10.1029/2005JD006730.

 

See Professor Liang's personal website for full lists of publications and projects.