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

• Improving Land Surface Products from Multiple EOS Sensors by Developing a Prototype Data Assimilation System
• Mapping High-Resolution Incident Photosynthetically Active Radiation Product for the North American Carbon Program

Representative Papers

Liang, S., J. Stroeve and J. Box, (2005),

Mapping daily snow shortwave broadband albedo from MODIS: The improved direct estimation algorithm and validation, Journal of Geophysical Research. 110, D10109, doi:10.1029/2004JD005493.

Liang, S.,

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

Liang, S., H. Fang, M. Chen, (2001)

Atmospheric Correction of Landsat ETM+ Land Surface Imagery: I. Methods
IEEE Transactions on Geosciences and Remote Sensing, 39(11):2490-2498.

Liang, S., (2001),

An optimization algorithm for separating land surface temperature and emissivity from multispectral thermal infrared imagery, IEEE Transactions on Geosciences and Remote Sensing, 39(2):264-274.

Liang, S., (2001),

Narrowband to broadband conversion of land surface albedo. I. Algorithms, Remote Sensing of Environment, 76(2):213-238.

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