Basic of Quantitative remote sensing (undergraduate)

Thermal Infrared Remote Sensing (Master & Ph.D students)

[1] Huazhong Ren, Xin Ye, Rongyuan Liu, Jiaji Dong, and Qiming Qin.(2017). Improving land surface temperature and emissivity retrieval from the Chinese Gaofen-5 (GF-5) satellite using a hybrid algorithm. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2017.2758804
[2] Huazhong Ren, Rongyuan Liu, Qiming Qin, Wenjie Fan, Le Yu, and Chen Du. (2017). Mapping finer-resolution land surface emissivity using Landsat images in China. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 122, 6764-6781
[3] Xin Ye, Huazhong Ren*, Qiming Qin, Yao Liu, and Jiaji Dong. (2017). Land surface temperature estimate from Chinese Gaofen-5 satellite data using split-window algorithm. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 55, 5587-5888 
[4] Huazhong Ren, Chen Du, Rongyuan Liu, Qiming Qin, Guangjian Yan, Zhao-Liang Li, and Jinjie Meng.(2015). Atmospheric water vapor retrieval from Landsat 8 thermal infrared images. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 120, 1723-1738.
[5] Huazhong Ren, Guangjian Yan, Rongyuan Liu, Zhao-Liang Li, Qiming Qin, Françoise Nerry, and Qiang Liu.(2015). Determination of optimum viewing angles for the angular normalization of land surface temperature over vegetated surface. Sensors, 15, 7537-7570.
[6] Huazhong Ren, Rongyuan Liu, Guangjian Yan, Zhao-Liang Li, Qiming Qin, Qiang Liu, and Françoise Nerry.(2015). Performance evaluation of four directional emissivity analytical models with thermal SAIL model and airborne images. Optics Express, 23, A346-A360.
[7] Rongyuan Liu, Huazhong Ren*, Suhong Liu, Qiang Liu, and Xiaowen Li. (2015). Modelling of fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation in vegetation canopy and its validation. Biosystems Engineering, 133, 81-94.
[8] Chen Du, Huazhong Ren, Qiming Qin, Jinjie Meng, and Shaohua Zhao. (2015). A practical split-window algorithm for estimating land surface temperature from Landsat 8 data. Remote Sensing, 7, 647-665. (Equal contribution with the first author)
[9] Xihan Mu, Shuai Huang, Huazhong Ren, Guangjian Yan, Wanjuan Song, and Gaiyan Ruan.(2015). Validating GEOV1 fractional vegetation cover derived from coarse-resolution remote sensing images over croplands. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 8, 439-446.
[10] Huazhong Ren, Chen Du, Rongyuan Liu, Qiming Qin, Jinjie Meng, Zhao-Liang Li, and Guangjian Yan.(2014). Evaluation of radiometric performance for the Thermal Infrared Sensor onboard Landsat 8. Remote Sensing, 6, 12776-12788.
[11] Huazhong Ren, Chen Du, Rongyuan Liu, Qiming Qin, Guangjian Yan, Zhao-Liang Li, and Jinjie Meng.(2014). Noise evaluation of early images for Landsat 8 Operational Land Imager. Optics Express, 22, 27270-27280.
[12] Huazhong Ren, Rongyuan Liu, Guangjian Yan, Xihan Mu, Françoise Nerry, Zhao-Liang Li, and Qiang Liu. (2014). Angular normalization of land surface temperature and emissivity using multiangular middle and thermal infrared data. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2014, 52, 4913-4931.
[13] Huazhong Ren, Guangjian Yan, Rongyuan Liu, Françoise Nerry, Zhao-Liang Li, and Ronghai Hu. (2013). Impact of sensor footprint on measurement of directional brightness temperature of row crop canopies. Remote Sensing of Environment, 134, 135-151.
[14] Huazhong Ren, Shunlin Liang, Guangjian Yan, and Jie Cheng. (2013). Empirical algorithms to map global broadband emissivities over vegetated surfaces. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 51, 2619-2631.
[15] Huazhong Ren, Guangjian Yan, Rongyuan Liu, Ronghai Hu, Tianxing Wang, and Xihan Mu. (2013). Spectral recalibration for in-flight broadband sensor using man-made ground targets. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 51, 4316-4329.
[16] Zhao-Liang Li, Bo-Hui Tang, Hua Wu, Huazhong Ren, Guangjian Yan, Zhengming Wan, Isabel F. Trigo, and José A. Sobrino. (2013). Satellite-derived land surface temperature: Current status and perspectives. Remote Sensing of Environment, 131, 14-37.
[17] Wuming Zhang, Jing Zhao, Weidan Wang, Huazhong Ren, Ling Chen, and Guangjian Yan. (2013). A preliminary evaluation of surface latent heat flux as an earthquake precursor. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 13, 2369-2647.
[18] Shunlin Liang, Xiang Zhao, Suhong Liu, Wenping Yuan, Xiao Cheng, Zhiqiang Xiao, Xiaotong Zhang, Qiang Liu, Jie Cheng, Hairong Tang, Yonghua Qu, Yancheng Bo, Ying Qu, Huazhong Ren, Kai Yu, and John Townshend. (2013). A long-term Global LAnd Surface Satellite (GLASS) data-set for environmental studies. International Journal of Digital Earth, 6, 5-31.
[19] Ling Chen, Guangjian Yan, Tianxing Wang, Huazhong Ren, Josep Calbo, Jing Zhao, and Richard McKenzie. (2012). Estimation of surface shortwave radiation components under all sky conditions: Modeling and sensitivity analysis. Remote Sensing of Environment, 123, 457-469.
[20] Huazhong Ren, Guangjian Yan, Ling Chen, and Zhao-Liang Li. (2011). Angular effect of MODIS emissivity products and its application to split-window algorithm. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 66, 498-507.
[21] Tianxing Wang, Guangjian Yan, Huazhong Ren, and Xihan Mu. (2010). Improved methods for spectral calibration of on-orbit imaging spectrometers. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 48, 3924-3931.
[22] Xin Li, Xiaowen Li, Zengyuan Li, Mingguo Ma, Jian Wang, Qing Xiao, Qiang Liu, Tao Che, Erxue Chen, Guangjian Yan, Zeyong Hu, Lixin Zhang, Rongzhong Chu, Peixi Su, Qinhuo Liu, Shaomin Liu, Jindi Wang, Zheng Niu, Yan Chen, Rui Jin, Weizhen Wang, Youhua Ran, Xiaozhou Xin, and Huazhong Ren. (2009). Watershed Allied Telemetry Experimental Research. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 114, D22103, doi: 10.1029/2008JD011590.

[1]. First prize of “Scientific and Technological Progress Award” of State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping of China, the 8th contributor in 15;
[2]. “Top-level dissertation Award” honored by Beijing Normal University;
[3]. “Outstanding Ph.D graduate” in Beijing region, 2013;
[4]. “Young Scholar Award” honored by the Ministry of Education of China, 2012;
[5]. “National Scholar Award for Ph.D Student” honored by the Ministry of Education of China, 2012.