Associate Professor in GIS and Remote Sensing
611 N Pleasant St.,Amherst, MA 01003
Office: 267 Morrill Science
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About |
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I am
an environmental geographer, interested in using GIS, remote sensing and spatial modeling to study environmental system. My current research focuses on these following topics.
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APPOINTMENT2012 – now
Associate Professor, Geosciences, UMass 2006 - 2012 Assistant
Professor, Geosciences, UMass April 2010 -
now School of Marine Sciences (Intercampus
Graduate Program), UMass |
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EDUCATION2005 Ph.D.
in Environmental
Science, University of California at
Berkeley 2001
M.S. in Cartography and GIS, Nanjing University, P.R.China 1999 B.S.
in Geography, Nanjing University, P.R.China |
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TEACHINGSpring, GEO-SCI 678: Spatial Data Analysis Spring, GEOGRAPH
593a: Aquatic Remote Sensing ADVISING Graduate
Program Director of Geography MS Honors Program Director for the Geography Program Advisor for Undergraduate GIST Certificate Advisor for
the Environmental
Science majors |
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MENTORINGGraduate StudentsWenxiu
Teng (Fall 2020-)
Bonnie
Turek (Fall 2020-Feb 2023)
Monica
Weisenbach (M.S.) (Fall 2018-Spring2021)
Changjiang Ye (M.S.) (Fall 2010 – Spring 2013) Bradford
Wheeler (M.S.) (Fall 2007- Spring2009) |
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Artur José Freire Gil (Visiting Ph.D
student, 10/2010-4/2011) PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONPublication in Research
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2023 |
49. Yong Q.
Tian, Qian Yu, Hunter Carrick, Brian Becker, Remegio Confesor, Mark Frencek, Olivia Anderson, Analysis of spatiotemporal
variation in dissolved organic carbon concentrations for streams with
cropland-dominated watersheds, Science of the Total Environment, 2023,
(PDF)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.160744. |
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2022 |
48. *Ouyang,
Linke, Caiyan Wu, Junxiang Li, Yuhan Liu, Meng
Wang, Ji Han, Conghe Song, Qian Yu, and
Dagmar Haase. Mapping Impervious Surface Using Phenology-Integrated and
Fisher Transformed Linear Spectral Mixture Analysis. Remote Sensing,
14, no. 7 (2022): 1673. (PDF) https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14071673
47. Jiang
Chen, Weining Zhu, and Qian Yu,
High-spatiotemporal-resolution estimation of solar energy component in the
United States using a new satellite-based model, Journal of Environmental
Management, Vol 302, Part B, 15 January 2022, 114077, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.114077 |
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2021 |
46. Jiang
Chen, Weining Zhu, and Qian Yu, Estimating half-hourly solar radiation over the
Continental United States using GOES-16 data with iterative random forest, Renewable
Energy, Vol 178, November 2021, Pages 916-929. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2021.06.129 45. Cawse-Nicholson et al, NASA's surface biology and geology
designated observable: A perspective on surface imaging algorithms, Remote
Sensing of Environment, 257, 112349, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2021.112349 44. *Thaler,
Evan A., Isaac J. Larsen, and Qian Yu. "The extent of soil loss
across the US Corn Belt.", Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences, 118.8 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1922375118 |
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2020 |
43. Zhang,
Y., Zhou, L., Zhou, Y., Zhang, L., Yao, X., Shi, K., Jeppesen, E., Yu, Q.
and Zhu, W., 2020. Chromophoric dissolved organic
matter in inland waters: present knowledge and future challenges. Science
of The Total Environment, p.143550. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143550 42. Jiang
Chen, Weining Zhu, Yong Tian, and Qian Yu, Monitoring dissolved organic carbon by combining Landsat-8
and Sentinel-2 satellites: Case study in Saginaw River estuary, Lake Huron, Science
of the Total Environment, 718. (PDF) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137374 |
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2019 |
41. *Evan
Thaler, Isaac Larsen and Qian Yu, A New Index for Remote Sensing of
Soil Organic Carbon Based Solely on Visible Wavelengths, Soil Science
Society of America Journal, 83(5), p. 1443-1450. (PDF) 40. David F. Boutt, Stephen B. Mabee, and Qian Yu,
2019, Multi‐year
increase in the stable isotopic composition of stream water from groundwater
recharge due to extreme precipitation, Geophysical Research Letters, 10.1029/2019GL082828.
(PDF) https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL082828 |
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2018 |
39. *Jiwei
Li, Qian Yu, Yong Q. Tian , Brian
L. Becker, Paul Siqueira, and Nathan Torbick, 2018,
Spatio-temporal Variations of CDOM in Shallow
Inland Waters from a Semi-analytical Inversion of Landsat-8, Remote Sensing of Environment, 218,
189-200.(PDF) Access online 38. *Jiwei
Li, Qian Yu, Yong Q. Tian, David
F. Boutt, 2018, Effects of landcover, soil property and temperature on
co-variations of DOC and CDOM in inland waters, Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences,
10.1002/2017JG004179. (PDF) Highlighted by AGU EOS Research Spotlight 37. *Meng
Li, R. Chu, Q. Yu, A. Islam, S. Chou and S. Shen,
2018, Evaluating Structural, Chlorophyll-Based and Photochemical Indices to
Detect Summer Maize Responses to ContinuousWater
Stress, Water, 10, 500;
doi:10.3390/w10040500 (PDF) |
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2017 |
36. Jiang
Chen, Weining Zhu, Yong Q. Tian, Qian Yu, Yuhan Zheng, and Litong Huang, 2017, Remote estimation of colored
dissolved organic matter and chlorophyll-a in Lake Huron using Sentinel-2
measurements, Journal of Applied Remote
Sensing, 11(3), 036007. (PDF) 35. Qiao,
H.J., Y.Q. Tian, Q. Yu, H.J. Carrick and J.W. Li, 2017, Snowpack enhanced dissolved
organic carbon export during a variety of hydrologic of events in an agricultural
landscape, Midwestern USA, Agricultural
and Forest Meteorology, 246, 31-41. (PDF) 34. *Chingwen Cheng, Ethan Yang, Robert Ryan, Qian Yu and
Elizabeth Brabec, 2017, Assessing
climate change-induced flooding mitigation for adaptation in Boston's Charles
River watershed, USA, Landscape and
Urban Planning, 167, 25-36. (PDF) 33. *Jiwei
Li, Q. Yu, Y.Q. Tian, and B.L. Becker, 2017, Remote Sensing
Estimation of Colored Dissolved Organic Matter (CDOM) in Optically Shallow
Waters, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry
and Remote Sensing, 128, 98-110. (PDF) 32. Jiang
Chen, Wei-Ning Zhu, Yong Q. Tian, and Qian
Yu, 2017, Estimation of Colored Dissolved Organic Matter From Landsat-8 Imagery for Complex Inland Water: Case
Study of Lake Huron, IEEE Transactions
on Geoscience and Remote Sensing,
55(4), 2201-2211. (PDF) |
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2016 |
31. *Gil, A., Pacheco-Vieira, C., Yu,
Q., Lobo, A., & Calado, H. (2016). Mapping
the Ecological Structure in Oceanic Islands - the case-study of S. Miguel
Island (Portugal). Environmental
Engineering and Management Journal, 15(7):1593-1602. |
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2015 |
30. *Zhu,
W.N., Q. Yu, Y.Q. Tian, B.L. Becker and H.J.Carrick, Issues and
Potential Improvement of Multiband Models for Remotely Estimating
Chlorophyll-a in Complex Inland Waters,
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote
Sensing, 8(2), 562-575. (PDF) |
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2014 |
29.* Gil,
A., Yu, Q., Abadi, M., and Calado,
H. (2014). Using ASTER multispectral imagery for mapping woody invasive
species in Pico da Vara Natural Reserve (Azores Islands, Portugal). Revista ARVORE, 38: 391-401. DOI:
10.1590/S0100-67622014000300001. (PDF) Available online 28. *Zhu,
W.N., Q. Yu, Y.Q. Tian, B.L.
Becker, T. Zheng, and H.J.Carrick,
2014, An assessment of remote sensing algorithms for colored dissolved
organic matter in complex freshwater environments, Remote Sensing of Environment, 140, 766-778. (PDF) |
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2013 |
27. *Zhu,
W.N., Q. Yu and Y.Q. Tian, 2013,
Uncertainty analysis of remote sensing of colored dissolved organic matter:
evaluations and comparisons for three rivers in North America, ISPRS Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing,
84, 12-22. (PDF) 26. *Zhu,
W.N., Y. Q. Tian, Q. Yu and B. L. Becker, 2013, Using Hyperion Imagery to
Monitor the Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Colored Dissolved Organic
Matter in Estuarine and Coastal Regions, Remote
Sensing of Environment, 134, 342-354. (PDF) 25. Tian
Y.Q., Yu Q., Feig A.D., Ye CJ.,
and Blunden A.M., 2013, Effects of climate and land-surface processes on
terrestrial dissolved organic carbon export to major U.S. coastal Rivers, Ecological Engineering, 54, 192-201. (PDF) 24. *Zhu, W.N. and Q. Yu, 2013, Inversion of Chromophoric
Dissolved Organic Matter (CDOM) from Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Images for
Turbid Estuarine and Coastal Waters, IEEE
Transactions of Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 51(6), 3286-3298. (PDF) |
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2011 |
23. Zimmerman,
M.J., Q. Yu, and Y.Q. Tian, 2011,
Monitoring to assess progress toward meeting the Assabet
River, Massachusetts, Phosphorus Total Maximum Daily Load - Aquatic
macrophyte biomass and sediment-phosphorus flux, U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report,
2011-5179, 77p. (available at http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2011/5179/) 22. *Gil, A., Q.
Yu, A. Lobo, P. Lourenço, L. Silva and H. Calado, 2011, Assessing the
effectiveness of high resolution satellite imagery
for vegetation mapping in small islands protected areas, Journal of Coastal Research, SI 64, 1663-1667, Szczecin, Poland,
ISSN 0749-0208. (PDF) 21. *Zhu, W.N., Q.
Yu, Y.Q. Tian, R.F. Chen, and B.G. Gardner, 2011, Estimation of chromophoric dissolved organic matter in the Mississippi
and Atchafalaya river plume regions using above‐surface
hyperspectral remote sensing, Journal
of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 116, C02011, doi:10.1029/2010JC006523. (PDF) 20. Pu, R.L.,
S. Landry, and Q. Yu, 2011, Object-based urban detailed land cover
classification with high spatial resolution IKONOS Imagery, International Journal of Remote Sensing,
32(12), 3285-3308. (PDF) |
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2010 |
19. *Zhu,
W.N. and Q. Yu, 2010, Spatial
chromatic tessellation: structure, topology, interpretation and implication, Annals of GIS, 16(4), 238-254. (Best
Student Paper Awards in Geoinformatics 2010) (PDF) 18. Yu, Q., Y. Q. Tian,
R.F. Chen, A. Liu, G.B. Gardner and W.N. Zhu, 2010, Functional
linear analysis for estimating riverine CDOM in coastal environment using in
situ hyperspectral data, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing,
76(10), 1147–1158. (2009 Early Career
Best Paper Award, AAG Remote Sensing Specialty Group) (PDF) 17. Tian,
Y.Q., Q. Yu, , M.J. Zimmerman, S. Flint, and
M. C. Waldron, 2010, Differentiating aquatic plant communities and densities
in a eutrophic river using hyperspectral and multispectral remote sensing, Freshwater
Biology, 55(8), 1658–1673.(PDF) |
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2008 |
16. Hui,
F.M., B. Xu, H.B. Huang, Q. Yu,
and P. Gong, 2008, Modeling spatial-temporal change of Poyang Lake using
multi-temporal Landsat imagery, International Journal of Remote Sensing,
29(20), 5767-5784.(PDF) 15. Yang, J.,
Q. Yu, P. Gong, 2008, Quantifying
air pollution removal by green roofs in Chicago, Atmospheric Environment,
42(31), 7266-7273.(PDF) 14. Pu, R.L.,
P. Gong, and Q. Yu, 2008,
Comparative analysis of EO-1 ALI and Hyperion, and Landsat ETM+ data for
mapping forest crown closure and leaf area index, Sensors, 8(6),
3744-3766; DOI: 10.3390/s8063744.(PDF) 13. Yu, Q., P. Gong, Y.Q. Tian, R. Pu and J. Yang, 2008, Factors affecting
spatial variation of classification uncertainty in an object-based vegetation
mapping, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 74 (8),
1007-1018.(PDF) 12. Ge, S.K.,
R.I. Carruthers, D.F. Spencer, and Q.
Yu, 2008, Canopy assessment of biochemical features by ground-based
hyperspectral data for an invasive species, giant reed (Arundo donax), Environmental Monitoring and Assessment,147(1-3):271-278.
DOI 10.1007/s10661-007-0119-z.(PDF) 11. *He, H.M., Q.
Yu, J.
Zhou, Y.Q. Tian and R.F. Chen, 2008, Modelling complex flood flow evolution
in the Middle Yellow River basin, China, Journal
of Hydrology, 353, 76– 92. doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2008.01.030.(PDF) |
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2007 |
10. *He,
H.M., J. Zhou, Y.J. Wu, Q. Yu,
W.C. Zhang and X.P. Xie, 2007, Estimating water quality pollution impacts
based on economic loss models in urbanization process in Xi'an, China, Journal of Urban Planning and Development,
133(3), 151-160.(PDF) 9. *He, H.M., J. Zhou, Q. Yu, Y.Q. Tian, and R.F. Chen, 2007,
Flood Frequency and Routing Processes at a Confluence of the Middle Yellow
River in China, River Research and
Applications, 23 (4) 407-427.(PDF) 8. Tian Y.Q., R. McDowell, Q. Yu, G.W. Sheath, W.T. Carlson and
P. Gong, 2007, Modeling to analyze the impacts of animal treading effects on
soil infiltration, Hydrological
Processes, 21(8), 1106-1114 (DOI: 10.1002/hyp.6293).(PDF) |
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2006 |
7.
Yu, Q., P. Gong, N. Clinton,G. Biging, M. Kelly and D. Schirokauer, 2006, Object-based detailed vegetation
classification with airborne high spatial resolution remote sensing imagery, Photogrammetric
Engineering and Remote Sensing, 72(7) 799-811. (PDF). Top most-cited Classic
Papers in Remote
Sensing by Google Scholar 6. Guo, Y. Y., R.G.
Amundson, P. Gong and Q. Yu, 2006,
Quantity and spatial variability of soil carbon in the conterminous United
States, Soil Science Society of America Journal, 70: 590-600.(PDF) 5. Guo, Y. Y., R.G.
Amundson, P. Gong and Q. Yu, 2006,
Analysis of factors controlling soil carbon in the conterminous United
States, Soil Science Society of America
Journal, 70: 601-612.(PDF) |
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2005 |
4. Tian Y.Q., D.G. McCall, W. Dripps, Q. Yu and P. Gong, 2005, Using
surface features to evaluate meat tenderness of grazing beef animals, Food
Australia, 57 (8): 322-326. (PDF) 3. Pu, R.L., Q. Yu, P. Gong and G.S. Biging, 2005,
EO-1 Hyperion, ALI and Landsat 7 ETM+ data comparison for estimating forest
crown closure and leaf area index, International
Journal of Remote Sensing, 26(3):457-474.(PDF) |
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2004 |
2. Tian,
Y.Q., J.D. Radke, P. Gong and Q. Yu,
2004, Model development for spatial variation of PM2.5 emissions from
residential wood burningSpatially allocating PM2.5
emissions from residential wood burning in California, Atmospheric
Environment, 38 (6):
833-843.(PDF) |
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2001 |
1. Yu, Q., G. Wu, and X. Li, 2001, Studies
on relational storage of spatial data, Remote
Sensing Information, 61(1): 24-30. (In Chinese) |
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Conference
Proceedings |
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2011 |
Liu,
H., Q. Yu, W. Ding, D.H. Ni, HG
Wang, and S. Shannon, 2011, Feasibility Study For
Automatic Calibration Of Transportation Simulation Models, 2011 Spring
Simulation Multiconference. (PDF) |
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AWARDSAward
to Advisee Jing Li Estimating algal biomass in a shallow eutrophic lake using a
look-up-table and spectrum-matching approach, 2nd Place, Student Honors Paper Competition,
Remote Sensing Specialty Group, AAG 2017, Boston. Jiwei Li Remote sensing
retrieval of colored dissolved organic matter in optically shallow waters, 2nd Place, Student Honors Paper Competition,
Remote Sensing Specialty Group, AAG 2016, San Francisco. Weining Zhu, International
Student Travel Award, Geographic Information Systems and Science Specialty
Group (GISS-SG), 2011 AAG Conference, Seattle, WA. Weining Zhu and Qian Yu, Spatial chromatic tessellation: conception, interpretation, and
implication, Best Student Paper Awards in Geoinformatics 2010,
June 18-20, Peking, China. |
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GRANTS
6.
UMass President's 2010 Science &
Technology (S&T) Initiatives, Hong Liu (PI), Co-PIs: Qian Yu et
al., Consortium on
Anytime-Anywhere-Anyway (AAA) Transportation Information, Nov,
2010.
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