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Kai-Ting awarded fellowship from Taiwan!
Third year LCSC Ph.D. student Kai-Ting Hu was recently awarded a fellowship from the government of Taiwan to help support her Ph.D. research. These are competitive merit-based awards, and Kai-Ting’s selection is a tremendous and well-deserved recognition of her talent and scientific potential. Congratulations Kai-Ting!
New NASA Project
We were recently selected for funding as part of a team led by Dr. Jon Wang at UCI (moving to the University of Utah in Januray) as part of NASA’s ABoVE Phase III project science team. The project title is: “Quantifying Disturbance and Global Change Impacts on Multi-decadal Trends in Aboveground Biomass and Land Cover […]
Seven new LCSC papers!
It’s been a busy and productive year for the LCSC team – so far 9 new papers published in 2022, with the seven most recent now posted (with links) on our publications page. New papers cover the full range of topics and projects that are ongoing in the group, including global land cover mapping, land […]
Two new LCSC papers!
We have two new papers from Team LCSC over the last few months. The first (Graesser et al., 2022) presents a sophisticated new model for pre-processing Landsat time series to remove noise and fill gaps. The second (Zhang et al., 2022), was lead by Yingtong Zhang in the Woodcock group here at BU and presents […]
Dr. Minkyu Moon promoted to Research Assistant Professor
We are very pleased to announce that Dr. Minkyu Moon has been promoted to the rank of Research Assistant Professor! Minkyu is very deserving of this promotion, which reflects the quality of his research as well as his productivity and rising visibility in the field. Congratulations to Professor Moon!!!
New LCSC project funded by NASA
We have a new 3-year project funded by NASA’s Science of Aqua and Terra program. Josh Gray at NCSU is a co-investigator and Andrew Richardson at NAU is a collaborator. At BU, post-doc Minkyu Moon and PhD student Tristan Green will work on the project. Over the 3-year project period, we will use the 20+ […]
Minkyu publishes new paper in RSE!
Post-doc Minkyu Moon has a new paper out in Remote Sensing of Environment that examines cross-scalar land surface phenology from harmonized Landsat 8 and Sentinel 2 imagery, Planetscope imagery at 3 m spatial resolution, and PhenoCams. Please see our Publications page for a link to this paper, and others!
New Academic Year, New Team Members
As we head into the new academic year, Team LCSC is excited to welcome new team members Tristan Green and Richard Lee! Tristan is a new PhD student who comes to us with a background in physical geography and atmospheric sciences from the University of Kansas. He’ll be working on climate-ecosystem dynamics at continental-to-global scale […]
New paper in Nature Climate Change
The third chapter of former LCSC PhD student Jon Wang’s dissertation is out in Nature Climate Change. In this paper, Jon (now a post-doc at UC Irvine) combines LiDAR measurements with historical Landsat imagery to estimate annual maps of aboveground biomass over a the study domain of NASA’s Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment. His results provide […]
New LCSC paper in RSE!
The third and final chapter from Minkyu’s dissertation is now published in Remote Sensing of Environment: Using time series of MODIS land surface phenology to model temperature and photoperiod controls on spring greenup in North American deciduous forests – congrats Minkyu! The paper uses MODIS data to develop a Bayesian model that simulates the timing […]