CURRICULUM VITAE Dr. Xiaoyang Zhang

Senior Research Scientist/Associate Professor Geospatial Sciences Center of Excellence (GSCE) Phone: 605-688-6714 (office) Department of Geogrpahy South Dakota State University E-mail: xiaoyang.zhang@sdstate.edu 1021 Medary Ave, Wecota Hall, Box 506B, Brookings, SD 57007-3510

Education and Degree Ph.D. Department of Geography, King's College London, University of London, London, 02/1995-

05/1999. M.Sc. Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing,

09/1988-08/1991. B.Sc. Department of Geography, Peking University, Beijing, 09/1980-07/1984.

Academic Appointment 8/2013-present: Associate Professor of Geography & Senior Research Scientist at the Geospatial Sciences

Centers of Excellence (GSCE), South Dakota State University (SDSU), Brooking, SD. USA

6/2012-8/2013: Visiting Associate Research Scientist, University of Maryland at NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, College Park, MD, USA

4/2005-5/2012: Senior research scientist, Earth Resources Technology (ERT) at NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, Camps Springs, MD, USA

6/1999-3/2005: Research Associate and made as Research Assistant Professor in 2003, Department of Geography, Boston University

10/1988-2/1995: Research Assistant Professor (1988-1992) and Research Associate Professor (1992-1995), Deputy of Department of Natural Resources and Land Use, Institute of Geodesy & Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Science, Wuhan, China

7/1984-9/1988: Research Assistant, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Science, Wuhan, China

Honors and Awards Overseas Research Students Award in the United Kingdom, 1995 to 1998. KC Wong Education Foundation in the University of London, 1995 to 1998. Second Award of the Progress of Science and Technology in Hubei Province, China, 1994. Third Award of the Progress of Science and Technology in Hubei Province, China, 1993.

PUBLICATIONS (Citations: >7200. H-index: 27. http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=SrrF3Y0AAAAJ&hl=en)

Edited Books

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1. Zhang, X. (Ed.), 2012. Phenology and Climate Change, ISBN: 978-953-51-0336-3, InTech, Available from: http://www.intechopen.com/books/phenology-and-climate-change.

Refereed Journal Papers (English)

1. Yan, D., Zhang, X., Yu, Y., Guo, W. and Hanan, N. P., 2016, Characterizing land surface phenology and responses to rainfall in the Sahara Desert, Journal of Geophysical Research- Biogeosciences, 121, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2016JG003441.

2. Peng, D., Wu, C., Zhang, B., Huete, A., Zhang, X., Sun, R., Lei, L., Huang, W., Liu, L., Liu, X., Li, J., Luo, S., Fang, B., 2016, The Influences of Drought and Land-Cover Conversion on Inter-Annual Variation of NPP in the Three-North Shelterbelt Program Zone of China Based on MODIS Data. PloS one, 11(6), http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0158173.

3. Liang, L., Schwartz, M., Zhang, X., 2016, Mapping Temperate Vegetation Climate Adaptation Variability Using Normalized Land Surface Phenology, Climate, 4(2), 24; doi:10.3390/cli4020024

4. Yan, D., Zhang, X., Yu, Y., and Guo, W., 2016, A comparison of tropical rainforest phenology retrieved from geostationary (SEVIRI) and polar-orbiting (MODIS) sensors across the Congo Basin, IEEE Transactions On Geoscience and Remote Sensing, http://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2016.2552462.

5. Zhang, X., and Zhang, Q. 2016, Monitoring interannual variation in global crop yield using long-term AVHRR and MODIS observations, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 114, 191-205.

6. Liu, L., Zhang, X., Donnelly, A. and Liu, X. ,2016, Interannual variations in spring phenology and their response to climate change across the Tibetan Plateau from 1982 to 2013, Int. J. Biometeorol., doi:10.1007/s00484-016-1147-6

7. Wu, M., Zhang, X, Huang, W., Niu, Z., Wang,C., Li, W. and Hao, P., 2015, Reconstruction of Daily 30 m Data from HJ CCD, GF-1 WFV, Landsat, and MODIS Data for Crop Monitoring, Remote Sensing, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs71215826.

8. Liang, L., Zhang, X., 2015. Coupled Spatiotemporal Variability of Temperature and Spring Phenology in the Eastern U.S., International Journal of Climatology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/joc.4456.

9. Yue, X., Unger, N., Keenan, T. F., Zhang, X., and Vogel, C. S. 2015. Probing the past 30-year phenology trend of US deciduous forests. Biogeosciences, 12, 4693–4709, doi:10.5194/bg-12-4693-2015.

10. Senthilnath, J., Kumar, D., Benediktsson, J.A., Zhang, X., 2015. A novel hierarchical clustering technique based on splitting and merging. International Journal of Image and Data Fusion, dx.doi.org/10.1080/19479832.2015.1053995.

11. Zhang, X., 2015. Reconstruction of a Complete Global Time Series of Daily Vegetation Index Trajectory from Long-term AVHRR Data. Remote Sensing of Environment, dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2014.10.012.

12. Zhang, Q., Cheng, Y.B., Lyapustin, A.I., Wang, Y., Zhang, X., Suyker, A., Verma, S., Shuai, Y.,Middleton, E.M., 2015. Estimation of crop gross primary production (GPP): II. Do scaled MODISvegetation indices improve performance? Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 200, 1–8, dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2014.09.003.

13. Fan, B., Guo, L., Li, N., Chen, J., Lin, H., Zhang, X., Shen, M., Rao, Y., Wang, C., Ma, L., 2014. Earlier vegetation green-up has reduced spring dust storms. Scientific Reports, 4 : 6749, DOI: 10.1038/srep06749.

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14. Xiao J., Ollinger, S.V., Frolking, S., Hurtt, G.C., Hollinger, D.Y., Davis, K.J., Pan, Y., Zhang, X., Deng, F., Chen, J., Baldocchi, D.D., Law, B.E., Arain, M.A., Desai, A.R., Richardson, A.D., Sun, G., Amiro, B., Margolis, H., Gu, L., Scott, R.L., Blanken, P.S., Suyker, A.E., 2014. Data-driven diagnostics of terrestrial carbon dynamics over North America. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 197, 142–157.

15. Zhang, X., Kondragunta, S., and Roy, D.P., 2014. Interannual variation in biomass burning and fire seasonality derived from geostationary satellite data across the contiguous United States from 1995 to 2011. Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences, DOI: 10.1002/2013JG002518.

16. Zhang, F., Wang, J. Ichoku, C., Hyer, E., Yang, Z., Ge, C., Su, S., Zhang, X., Kondragunta, S., Kaiser, J., Wiedinmyer, C., and da Silva, A., 2014. Sensitivity of mesoscale modeling of smoke direct radiative effect to the emission inventory: A case study in northern sub-Saharan African region. Environmental Research Letters, 9, 075002, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/9/7/075002.

17. Zhang, X., Tan, B., and Yu, Y. 2014. Interannual variation and trends in global land surface phenology derived from enhanced vegetation index during 1982-2010. International Journal of Biometeorology, DOI 10.1007/s00484-014-0802-z.

18. Liang, L., Schwartz, M.D., Wang, Z., Gao, F., Schaaf, C.B., Tan, B., Morisette, J.T., and Zhang, X., 2014. A cross comparison of spatiotemporally enhanced springtime phenological measurements from satellites and ground in a northern U.S. mixed forest. IEEE Transactions On Geoscience And Remote Sensing, DOI10.1109/TGRS.2014.2313558.

19. Shuai, Y., Schaaf, C., Zhang, X., Strahler, A., Roy, D., Morisette, J., Wang, Z., Nightingale, J., Nickeson, J., Richardson, A.D., Xie, D., Wang, J., Li, X., Strabala, K., Davies, J.E., 2013. Daily MODIS 500 m reflectance anisotropy direct broadcast (DB) products for monitoring vegetation phenology dynamics. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 34(16): 5997-6016.

20. Zhang, X., Kondragunta, S., Ram, J., Schmidt, C., Huang,H-C, 2012. Near Real Time Global Biomass Burning Emissions Product from Geostationary Satellite Constellation. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmosphere, doi:10.1029/2012JD017459.

21. Zhang, X., 2012. Impacts of global climate change on the plant seasonality of our planet. Overseas Scholars, 1:35-45.

22. Zhang, X., Goldberg, M.D., Yu, Y., 2012. Prototype for monitoring and forecasting fall foliage coloration in real time from satellite data. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 158: 21-29.

23. Kovalskyy, V., Roy, D. P., Zhang, X., Ju, J., 2012. The suitability of multi-temporal Web-Enabled Landsat Data (WELD) NDVI for phenological monitoring – a comparison with flux tower and MODIS NDVI. Remote Sensing Letters, 3(4): 325–334.

24. Zhang, X. Kondragunta, S., and Quayle, B., 2011. Estimation of biomass burned areas using multiple-satellite-observed active fires. IEEE Transactions on Geosciences and Remote Sensing, 49: 4469-4482, 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2149535.

25. Zhang, X. and Goldberg, M, 2011. Monitoring Fall Foliage Coloration Dynamics Using Time-Series Satellite Data. Remote Sensing of Environment, 115 (2): 382-391.

26. Yang, E.S., Christopher, S.A., Kondragunta, S., and Zhang, X., 2010. Use of hourly GOES fire emissions in a Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model for improving surface particulate matter predictions. Journal of Geophysical Research, 116, D04303, doi:10.1029/2010JD014482.

27. Zhang, X., Goldberg, M., Tarpley, D., Friedl, M., Morisette, J., Kongan, F., Yu, Y., 2010. Drought-induced Vegetation Reduction in Southwestern North America. Environmental Research Letters, 5 (2010) 024008, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/5/2/024008.

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28. Ganguly, S., Friedl, M.A., Tan, B., Zhang, X., and Verma, M., 2010. Land surface phenology from MODIS: Characterization of the Collection 5 global land cover dynamics product. Remote Sensing of Environment, 114(8), 1805-1816.

29. Christopher, S.A., Gupta, P., Nair, U., Jones, T.A., Kondragunta, S., Wu, Y.L, Hand, J., Zhang, X, 2009. Satellite Remote Sensing and Mesoscale Modeling of the 2007 Georgia/Florida Fires. Journal of Selected Topics in Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 2:163 – 175, DOI:10.1109/JSTARS.2009.2026626.

30. Zhang, X., Friedl, M.A., Schaaf, C.B., 2009. Sensitivity of vegetation phenology detection to the temporal resolution of satellite data. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 30(8): 2061 – 2074, DOI: 10.1080/01431160802549237.

31. Zhang, X., Kondragunta, S., Schmidt, C., Kogan, F., 2008. Near real-time monitoring of biomass burning particulate emissions (PM2.5) using multiple satellite instruments. Atmospheric Environment, doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2008.04.060.

32. Al-Saadi, J., Soja, A., Pierce, B., Kittaka, C., Emmons, L., Kondragunta, S., Zhang, X., Wiedinmyer, C., Schaack, T. Szykman, J., 2008. Evaluation of Near-Real-Time Biomass Burning Emissions Estimates Constrained by Satellite Active Fire Detections. Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, v2, DOI: 10.1117/1.2948785.

33. Zhang, X., Kondragunta, S., 2008. Temporal and spatial variability in biomass burned areas across the USA derived from the GOES fire product. Remote Sensing of Environment, 112, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2008.02.006.

34. Zhang, X., Tarpley, D., Sullivan, J. 2007. Diverse responses of vegetation phenology to a warming climate. Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L19405, doi:10.1029/2007GL031447. (This paper was reported in more than 60 different news sites worldwide, including New Scientist Magazine, Wired Magazine, Natural History Magazine, AGU EOS, and LiveScience).

35. Zhang, X., Friedl, M.A., Schaaf, C.B., 2006. Global vegetation phenology from MODIS: evaluation of global patterns and comparison with in situ measurements. Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 111, G04017, doi:10.1029/2006JG000217.

36. Zhang X., Kondragunta, S., 2006. Estimating forest biomass in the USA using generalized allometric model and MODIS product data. Geophysical Research Letters, 33: L09402, doi:10.1029/2006GL025879.

37. Wiedinmyer, C., Quayle, B., Geron, C., Belote, A., McKenzie, Zhang, X., O’Neil, S., and Wynne, K.K., 2006. Estimating emissions from fires in North America for air quality modeling. Atmospheric Environment, 40: 3419-3432.

38. Zhang, X., Friedl, M.A., Schaaf, C.B., and Strahler, A.H., Liu, Z., 2005. Monitoring the response of vegetation phenology to precipitation in Africa by coupling MODIS and TRMM instruments. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, Vol. 110, D12103.

39. Zhang, X., Friedl, M.A., Schaaf, C. B., Strahler, A.H., and Schneider, A., 2004. The footprint of urban climates on vegetation phenology. Geophysical Research Letter, Vol. 31, L12209, doi:10.1029/2004GL020137. (This paper was reported in more than 100 different news sites, such as Science News (newsmagazine), NASA press release, and The Associated Press).

40. Zhang, X., Friedl, M.A., Schaaf, C.B., Strahler, A.H., 2004. Climate controls on vegetation phenological patterns in northern mid- and high latitudes inferred from MODIS data. Global Change Biology, 10:1133-1145.

41. Tian Y, Dickinson, R.E., Zhou, L., Zeng, X., Dai, Y., Myneni, R.B., Knyazikhin, Y., Zhang, X., Friedl, M., Yu, II., Wu, W., Shaikh, M. 2004. Comparison of seasonal and spatial variations of leaf area index and fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation from Moderate Resolution

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Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and Common Land Model. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 109 (D1): Art. No. D01103.

42. Penuelas, J., Filella, I., Zhang, X., LLorens, L., Ogaya, R., Lloret, F., Comas, P., Estiarte, M., Terradas, J., 2004. Complex spatiotemporal phenological shifts as a response to rainfall changes. New Phytologist, 161(3): 837-846.

43. Zhang, X., Schaaf, C. B., Friedl, M. A., Strahler, A. H., Gao F., Hodges, J. F., Reed, B. C., Huete, A., 2003. Monitoring vegetation phenology using MODIS. Remote Sensing of Environment, 84(3), 471-475.

44. Zhang, X., Drake, N. A., and Wainwright, J. 2002. Scaling land-surface parameters for global scale soil-erosion estimation. Water Resources Research, 38(9), 191-199. (This paper was highlighted by EOS, 83(43), Oct., 2002).

45. Schaaf, C. B., Gao, F., Strahler, A. H., Lucht, W., Li, X., Tsang, T., Strugnell, N. C., Zhang, X., Jin, Y., Muller, J. P. et al. 2002. First operational BRDF, albedo nadir reflectance products from MODIS. Remote Sensing of Environment, 83(1-2), 135-148.

46. Friedl, M. A, McIver, D. K, Hodges, J. C., Zhang, X. Y., Muchoney, D., Strahler, A. H., Woodcock, C. E., Gopal, S., Schnieder, A., Cooper, A., Baccini, A., Gao, F., and Schaaf, C. B. 2003. Global land cover mapping from MODIS: algorithms and early results. Remote Sensing of Environment, 83(1-2), 287-302.

47. Yun Du, Y., Cai, S., Zhang, X. and Zhao, Y. 2001. Interpretation of the environmental change of Dongting Lake, middle reach of Yangtze River, China, by 210Pb measurement and satellite image analysis. Geomorphology, 41(2-3), 171-181.

48. Zhang, X., Drake, N. A., Wainwright, J. and Mulligan, M. 1999. Comparison of slope estimates from low resolution DEMs: scaling issues and a fractal method for their solution. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 24(9), 763-779.

49. Zhang, X. 1998. On the estimation of biomass of submerged vegetation using Landsat thematic mapper (TM) imagery: case study of the Honghu Lake, PR China. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 19(1), 11-20.

Refereed Book Chapters (English)

50. Zhang, X., Ni-meister, W., 2014. Remote sensing of Forest biomass. In Hanes, J. (ed), Biophysical Applications of Satellite Remote Sensing, Springer, New York, pp 63-98.

51. Zhang, X., Friedl, M.A., Tan, B., Goldberg, M.D. and Yu, Y., 2012. Long-Term Detection of Global Vegetation Phenology from Satellite Instruments. In X. Zhang (Ed.), Phenology and Climate Change, ISBN: 978-953-51-0336-3, InTech.

52. Zhang, X., Drake, N. A., Wainwright, J., 2013. Spatial Modelling and Scaling Issues. In Wainwright, J. and Mulligan, M. (eds.), Environmental Modeling: Finding Simplicity in Complexity (Second Edition), John Wiley and Sons, Chichester.

53. Friedl, M.A., Zhang, X., Strahler, A.H, 2011. Characterizing global land cover type and seasonal land cover dynamics at moderate spatial resolution using MODIS. In Ramachandran, B., Justice, C., and Abrams, M. (Eds), Land Remote Sensing and Global Environmental Change: NASA’s Earth Observing System and the Science of ASTER and MODIS, Springer, New York,pp709-721.

54. Zhang, X., Drake, N. A., and Wainwright, J. 2004. Scaling issues in environmental modeling. In Wainwright, J. and Mulligan, M. (eds.), Environmental Modeling: Finding Simplicity in Complexity, John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, pp. 319-334.

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55. Drake, N.A., Zhang, X., Symeonakis, E., Patterson, G., Bryant, A.R. 2004. Near Real-time Modeling of Regional scale soil erosion using AVHRR and METEOSAT data: a tool for monitoring the impact of sediment yield on the biodiversity of Lake Tanganyika. In Kelly, R., Drake, N., and Barr, S. (eds.), Spatial Modelling of the Terrestrial Environment. John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, pp. 157-174.

56. Drake, N. A., Zhang, X., Berkhout, E., Bonifacio, R., Grimes, D., Wainwright, J. and Mulligan, M. 1999. Modeling soil erosion at global and regional scales using remote sensing and GIS techniques. In Atkinson, P. M. and Tate, N. J. (eds.), Advances in Remote Sensing and GIS Analysis, John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, pp. 241-261.

57. Zhang, X. 1992. Study on the swamping of lakes and lowland in Jianghan and Dongting plain by using remote sensing techniques. In Embleton, C. (ed.), Geo-hazards and their Reduction, Science Press, Beijing, pp. 61-69.

58. Zhang, X. and Cai, S. 1994. Study on wetland and its dynamic changes in Jianhan plain by using remote sensing. In Wetland Environment and Peatland Utilization: Wetland Environment and Peatland Utilization, Changchun, China, Jilin People's Publishing House, Changchun, China, pp. 296-302.

Refereed Journal Papers (Chinese)

59. Liu, L., Pang, Y., Zhang, X., Solberg, S., Fan,W., Li, Z., Li, M., 2012. Monitoring Forest Growth Disturbance Using Time Series MODIS EVI Data. Forest Science, China, 28: 54-62.

60. Zhang, X., Li, J., 1995. The derivation of a reflectance model for the estimation of leaf area index using perpendicular vegetation index. Remote Sensing Technology and Application, 10(3):13-18.

61. Zhang, X., Du, Y. and Cai, S. 1995. An analysis on evolutional tendency of Dongting Lake. Resources and Environment in the Yangtze Valley, China, 4(1), 64-69.

62. Zhang, X., Cai, S. and Sun, S. 1994. Evolution of Dongting Lake since Holocene, Limnology Science, China, 16(1).

63. Yu, L., Xu, Y, Cai, S. and Zhang, X. 1993. The application of GIS to a lake environmental change study. Limnology Science, China, 15(4).

Refereed Journal Book Chapters (Chinese)

64. Zhang, X., Huang, J., Li, J., Chen, S. and Liu, K. 1995. Remote sensing for modeling rice yield in Hubei province, PRC. In Zhou, R. et al (ed.), Rice Yield Estimation Using Remote Sensing in China, Science Press, Beijing.

65. Zhang, X. 1995. The relationship between biomass of submerged vegetation and spectral properties. In Chen, Y. and Xu Y. (eds.), Hydrobiology and Resource Exploitation in the Honghu Lake, Sciences Press, Beijing.

66. Zhang, X. 1995. Investigating biomass of submerged vegetation using PCA analysis. In Chen, Y. and Xu Y. (eds.), Hydrobiology and Resource Exploitation in the Honghu Lake, Sciences Press, Beijing.

67. Zhang, X. and Cai, S. 1994. The effect of the Three Gorge Project on Dongting Lake. In Pu, P. (ed.), The Effect of Three Gorge Project on The Environment Of Lakes And Wetland In The Middle Reaches of Yangtze River, Sciences Press, Beijing.

68. Zhang, X., Li, R., Chen, S. and Liu, K. 1993. Exploring a remote sensing model of rice yield estimation. In Chen, S. (ed.), Estimation of Wheat, Maize and Rice Yield Using Remote Sensing Techniques, Chinese Science and Technology Press, Beijing.

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69. Zhang, X., Li, R. and Du, Y. 1993. Sampling frame for rice yield estimation based on the remote sensing techniques in Jiangli County. In Chen, S. (ed.), Estimation of Wheat, Maize and Rice Yield Using Remote Sensing Techniques, Chinese Science and Technology Press, Beijing.

70. Liu, K., Yang, B. and Zhang, X. 1993. Numerical simulation of rice yield. In Chen, S. (ed.), Estimation of Wheat, Maize and Rice Yield Using Remote Sensing Techniques, Chinese Science and Technology Press, Beijing.

71. Zhang, X. and Cai, S. 1991. Recent change of Dongting Lake. In Chinese Association of Geomorphology and Quaternary (ed.), Research Progress of Geomorphology and Quaternary, Survey and Drawing Press, Beijing.

72. Zhang, X. and Cai, S. 1991. Analysis of the swamping process and the dynamic change in emergent vegetation on the basis of remote sensing data. In Honghu Research Group, Institute of Hydrobiology, Academia Sinica (ed.), Studies on Comprehensive Exploitation of Aquatic Biological Productivity and Improvement of Ecological Environment in Lake Honghu, China Ocean Press, Beijing.

73. Zhang, X. and Cai, S. 1991. Estimation of the emergent vegetation biomass in Lake Honghu by means of remote sensing. In Honghu Research Group, Institute of Hydrobiology, Academia Sinica (ed.), Studies on Comprehensive Exploitation of Aquatic Biological Productivity and Improvement of Ecological Environment in Lake Honghu, China Ocean Press, Beijing.

74. Cai, S. and Zhang, X. 1991. Co-ordinate development of fishery and agriculture in the Honghu basin. In Honghu Research Group, Institute of Hydrobiology, Academia Sinica (ed.), Studies on Comprehensive Exploitation of Aquatic Biological Productivity and Improvement of Ecological Environment in Lake Honghu, China Ocean Press, Beijing.

75. Cai, S., Yi, C., and Zhang, X. 1991. Process of swamping and pedogenesis in Honghu Lake and utilization. In Honghu Research Group, Institute of Hydrobiology, Academia Sinica (ed.), Studies on Comprehensive Exploitation of Aquatic Biological Productivity and Improvement of Ecological Environment in Lake Honghu, China Ocean Press, Beijing.

76. Cai, S., Zhang, X., Zhou, S. and Wang, K. 1989. Map of the change of lakes in Sihu district. In Atlas of Ecosystems and Environments in the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, Science Press, Beijing.

77. Cai, S. and Zhang, X. 1989. Map of the change of Dongting Lake. In Atlas of Ecosystems and Environments in the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, Science Press, Beijing.

78. Cai, S., Guan, Z, Zou, J. Zhang, X., Yi, L. and Yang H. 1987. Effects of the Three Gorge project on lake environmental evolution and potential gleization and creation of marshes in the north and south of Jingjiang River. In Impacts of the Three Gorges Project on Ecosystems and Environment and Possible Countermeasures, Science Press, Beijing.

Main Proceedings and Presentation Abstracts

1. Zhang, X, Liu, L., Yu, Y., 2016, Assessment of Real Time Land Surface Phenology Retrieved from JPSS VIIRS Observations, 2016 NOAA JPSS Science Team Meeting, August 8-12, College Park, MD.

2. Zhang, X., An., S., 2016, Variation of Land Surface Phenology Derived from Landsat 7 and 8 Data across the Tibetan Plateau, Landsat Science Team Meetings, 26-28 July, Brookings, SD

3. Zhang, X., Friedl, M., Henebry, G., Jayavelu, S., Gray, J., Liu, Y., Schaaf, C., Wang, J., 2016, Development and Validation of a Land Surface Phenology Product from VIIRS, 2016 MODIS/VIIRS Science Meeting, June 6-10, Silver Spring, MD.

4. Zhang, X., Friedl, M., Henebry, G., Jayavelu, S., Gray, J., Liu, Y., Schaaf, C., Wang, J., 2016, Validation of VIIRS Land Surface Phenology Using PhenoCam and Landsat Data, 2016 MODIS/VIIRS Science Meeting, June 6-10, Silver Spring, MD. (poster).

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5. Zhang, X., Yu, Y., Liu, L., Yan, D., 2016, Real-time Monitoring of Land Surface Phenology from Polar-Orbiting and Geostationary Satellites, US-IALE 2016 Annual Meeting, 3-7 April 2016, Asheville, North Carolina

6. Liu, L., Zhang, X., Yu, Y., 2016, Evaluating the potential of satellite data to track temporal trend in peak coloration of temperate forest in eastern United States, 2016 AAG Annual Meeting, March 29 -April 2, San Francisco, California, USA.

7. Zhang, X., 2016, Monitoring Global Land Surface Phenology from AVHRR, MODIS, and VIIRS Data, January 26, 2016, Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China (invited).

8. Zhang, X., Yu, Y., Liu, L., 2015, A System for Monitoring and Forecasting Land Surface Phenology Using Time Series of JPSS VIIRS Observations and Its Applications, AGU Fall Meeting, 14–18 December, San Francisco, California, USA.

9. Liu, Y., MacKenzie, C.M., Primack, R., Zhang, X., Schaaf, C., Sun, Q., and Wang, Z., 2015, Phenological monitoring of Acadia National Park using Landsat, MODIS and VIIRS observations and fused data, AGU Fall Meeting, 14–18 December, San Francisco, California, USA.

10. Yan, D., Zhang, X., Yu, Y., and Guo, W., 2015, Rainfall Controls on Land Surface Phenology over “Never-green” and “Ever-green” Lands in Africa, AGU Fall Meeting, 14–18 December, San Francisco, California, USA.

11. Zhang, X., Yu, Y., Liu, L., Henebry, G., Friedl, M., Joshua Gray, J., Schaaf, C., Liu, Y., and Wang, Z., 2015, VIIRS Land Surface Phenology: from Climate Date Record to Real Time Monitoring, Third International Conference on Phenology, 5-8 October, Kusadasi, Turkey.

12. Liu, Y., Schaaf, C., Zhang, X., Wang, Z., Erb, A., Saenz, Z., Sun, Q., Paynter, I., 2015, Monitoring tree and understory grass phenological development in California Savannas using daily MODIS and VIIRS NBAR, Third International Conference on Phenology, 5-8 October, Kusadasi, Turkey.

13. Zhang, X., Yu, Y., Wu, Y., Ek, M., and Liu, L., 2015, Operational monitoring and forecasting of land surface phenology from JPSS VIIRS observations and its applications, NOAA JPSS 2015 Annual Science Team Meeting, 24-28 August, College Park, MD.

14. Zhang, X., 2015, Satellite Monitoring of the Green Wave and Brown Wave on the Earth’s Land Surface in Response to Global Climate Change, South Dakota State Geography Convention, 19-20 March, South Dakota State University, SD (Invited).

15. Zhang, X., Liu, L., Yan, D., 2015, Long-term Land Surface Phenology: Climatology, Trend, Variability, and Climate Impacts, AAG 2015, 21-26 April, Chicago, IL.

16. Liu, L, Zhang, X., 2015, The response of spring phenology to climate change on the Tibetan Plateau from 1982 to 2013, AAG 2015, 21-26 April, Chicago, IL.

17. Zhang, X., Liu, L., Yu, Y., 2015, Real-time Monitoring Land Surface Vegetation Phenology from VIIRS Observations, 2015 NOAA Satellite Conference, 27April – 1 May, 2015, Greenbelt, MD.

18. Zhang, X., Friedl, M., Henebry, G., Jayavelu, S., Gray, J., Schaaf, C., Liu, Y., 2015, Comparison of Land Surface Phenology Retrieved from MODIS and VIIRS Data, 2015 NASA MODIS and VIIRS Science Team Meeting, 18-22 May, 2015, Silver Spring, MD.

19. Henebry G, de Beurs, K, Krehbiel, C, Nguyen, L, Owsley, B, Zhang, X, Zheng, B, 2015, Change in our MIDST: Toward detection and analysis of urban dynamics in CONUS, NASA Carbon Cycle & Ecosystems Joint Science Workshop, 20–24 April, College Park, MD.

20. Henebry GM, Zhang, XY, de Beurs, KM, Kimball, JS, Small, C, 2015, Change in our MIDST: Toward Detection and Analysis of Urban Land Dynamics in North and South America, Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event (JURSE 2015), 30 March–01 April, Lausanne Switzerland,.

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21. Henebry GM, de Beurs, KM, Zhang, XY, Kimball, JS, Small, C., 2014, The many hazards of trend evaluation. AGU Fall Meeting, 15–19 December San Francisco, CA.

22. Yu, P., Yu, Y., Liu, Y., Wang, Z., and Zhang, X., 2014, Towards Monitoring Satellite Land Surface Temperature Production, AGU Fall Meeting, 15–19 December 2014, San Francisco, CA, USA.

23. Shi, H., Vogelmann, J., Zhang, X., Hawbaker, T., Reeves, M., Li, Z., 2014, Mapping Fuel Loads and Their Dynamics in Shrublands and Grasslands Using eMODIS Data, AGU Fall Meeting, 15–19 December 2014, San Francisco, CA, USA.

24. Liu, Y., Schaaf, C., Wang, Z., Erb, A., Zhang, X., and Sun, Q., 2014, Monitoring Vegetation Phenology Using Daily Nadir BRDF-Adjusted VIs from VIIRS, 20th International Congress of Biometeorology, Sept 28-Oct 2, 2014, Cleveland, OH, USA

25. Kondragunta, S., Zhang, X, Lu, S., 2014, Global Biomass Burning Emissions from a Constellation of Geostationary Satellites for Global Model Forecast Applications, Global Observation of Forest and Land Cover Dynamics - Fire Mapping and Monitoring Implementation Team Meeting, 29-31 July, 2014, NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction-College Park, MD, USA.

26. Zhang, X.,Liu, L., 2014, Variability of Long-term Global Land Surface Phenology Derived from AVHRR and MODIS Observations and Its Response to Climate Change, 20th International Congress of Biometeorology, Sept 28-Oct 2, 2014, Cleveland, OH.

27. Zhang, X., 2014, Reconstructing daily Vegetation trajectory of vegetation index from AVHRR, MODIS, and VIIRS data, 2014 IGARSS and 35th Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing, 13-18 July, 2014, Quebec City, Canada.

28. Lu, S., Kondragunta, S., Zhang, X., Da Silva, A., Kim, H., 2014, Global aerosol forecasting at NCEP using satellite-based smoke emissions, 12th JCSDA Technical Review & Science Workshop on Satellite Data Assimilation, 21-23 May 2014, College Park, MD.

29. Zhang, X., Kondragunta, S., Da Silva, A., Lu, S., Kim, H., 2014, Generation of Global Biomass Burning Emissions Product by Blending Fire Observations from MODIS and Geostationary Satellites, 12th JCSDA Technical Review & Science Workshop on Satellite Data Assimilation, 21-23 May 2014, College Park, MD.

30. Zhang, X., Liu, L., Friedl, M., Yu, Y., 2014, Comparison of global land surface phenology derived from AVHRR, MODIS and VIIRS data, 2014 US-IALE Annual Symposium, 18-22 May 2014, Anchorage, AK.

31. Zhang, X., Kondragunta, S., Lu, S., Da Silva, A., 2014, The blended Global Biomass Burning Emissions Product from MODIS and Geostationary Satellites (GBBEP-Geo-Leo), 3rd IBBI Workshop, 23-26 April 2014, Schloss Ringberg, Bavaria, Germany.

32. Zhang, X., 2014, Investigation of drought-impacts on crop growth from long-term satellite data across Asia, Monsoon Asia Integrated Regional Study (MAIRS) Open Science Conference, Beijing, 7-10 April 2014 , Beijing, China.

33. Zhang, X., Friedl, M. and Yu, Y., 2013, Interannual Variations in Global Land Surface Phenology Derived from a Long Term AVHRR and MODIS Data Record, AGU Fall Meeting, 9–13 December 2013, San Francisco, California, USA.

34. Zhang, X., Kondragunta, S., Da Silva, A., Lu, S., Kim, H., 2013, Development of Operational Global Biomass Burning Emissions Product Using Fire Radioactive Energy Derived from MODIS and Geostationary Satellites, International Smoke Symposium, 21-24 October 2013, Adelphi, MD, USA.

35. Zhang, X., 2013, Monitoring Drought‐impacts on Crop Yield in Central United States Using Satellite‐derived Crop Phenology, The Second International Conference on Agro-Geoinformatics, 12-16 August 2013, Fairfax, VA, USA.

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36. Zhang, X., 2012, Monitoring crop phenology from satellite remote sensing, International Symposium on Synergistic Approaches to Food and Water Security, 17-19 October, Fairfax, Virginia, USA.

37. Kondragunta, S., Zhang, X., da Silva, A., Lu, S., Kim, H.C., 2012, Using Satellite Data to Improve Operational Atmospheric Constituents Forecasting Capabilities, JCSDA 10th Workshop on Satellite Data Assimilation, 10-12 October, College Park, Maryland, USA.

38. Hu, Y., Odman, M. T, Russell, A.G., Zhang, X., Kondragunta, S., Yu, H., Remer, L., Bian, H., 2012, Modeling wildfire impacts on air quality during the ARCTAS-CARB campaign: evaluation using surface, airborne and satellite measurements, 11th Annual CMAS Conference, 15-17 October, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.

39. Zhang, X., 2012, Monitoring and foresting fall foliage coloration from near real time satellite data, Phenology 2012-Future Climate & the Living Earth, 10-13 September, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.

40. Zhang, X., Friedl, M.A., Tan, B., Goldberg, M.D, Yu, Y., 2012, Global vegetation phenology deverived from a long term AVHRR and MOIDS data record and its responses to climate changes, Phenology 2012-Future Climate & the Living Earth, 10-13 September, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.

41. Schaaf, C.B., Wang, Z, Shuai, Y., Strahler, A.H., Zhang, X., Roy, D.P., 2012, The Daily Operational MODIS BRDF, Albedo and Nadir Reflectance Products (V006), Phenology 2012-Future Climate & the Living Earth, 10-13 September, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.

42. Wang, Z., Schaaf, C.B., Strahler, A.H., Yang, X., Kim, J., Morisette, J.T., Zhang, X., Meier, C., Yang, Y., 2012, Monitoring NEON Terrestrial Core Sites Phenology with MODIS BRDF/albedo Product, Phenology 2012-Future Climate & the Living Earth, 10-13 September, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.

43. Zhang, X., Kondragunta, S., Schmidt, C., Park, S., and Wang, J., 2011, Near-real Time Global Biomass Burning Emissions from Multiple Geostationary Instruments and Its Application in GEOS-Chem Model. 3rth International Workshop in Air Quality Forecasting Research, 29 November - 1 December, Bolger Center, Potomac, MD, USA.

44. Huang H-C., Lu, S., Zhang, X., Kondragunta, S., 2011, On the Development of Global Aerosol Assimilation at the NCEP and the Use of Satellite-derived Hourly Global Biomass Burning Emissions Product as Source Function in Forecast Model, JCSDA 9th Workshop, 18-19 May, College Park, MD, USA.

45. Ram, J., Zhang, X., Kondragunta, S., Huang H-C, Silva, A., 2011, Intercomparison of NOAA’s Global Biomass Burning Emissions Product (GBBEP) from Geostationary Satellites and NASA’s Quick Fire Emissions Data (QFED) from Polar-orbiting Satellites, JCSDA 9th Workshop, 18-19 May 2011, College Park, MD.

46. Zhang, X., Kondragunta, S., Schmidt, C., Park, S., and Wang, J., 2011, Hourly Biomass Burning Emissions Product from Global Geostationary Satellite Constellation and Its Application in GEOS-Chem Model, 5th GEOS-Chem Workshop, 2-5 May, Harvard University, Boston.

47. Zhang, X., Kondraguntq, S., Ram, J. Schmidt, C., Huang H-C., 2011, Near-Real Time Global Biomass Burning Emissions Product from Multiple Geostationary Satellites, 34th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment, 10-15 April 2011, Sydney, Australia.

48. Zhang, X. and Goldberg, M.D, 2011, Real-time Monitoring of Vegetation Phenological Phases Using Satellite Data, 34th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment, 10-15 April 2011, Sydney, Australia.

49. Huang H-C., Silva, A., Zhang, X., Ram, J., Kondragunta, S., Lu, S., Tang, Y., Tassone, C., Huang, J., McQueen, J., Lapenta, B., Lord, S., Chin, M., Diehl, T., 2010, The development of NCEP global aerosol modeling system: fire emissions, AGU Fall Meeting, 13–17 December, San Francisco, CA, USA.

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50. Zhang, X., Kondragunta, S., and Schmidt, C., 2010, Near-real Time Monitoring of Global Biomass Burning Emissions from Multiple Geostationary Instruments, AGU Fall Meeting, 13–17 December, San Francisco, CA, USA.

51. Zhang, X., Kondragunta, S., and Schmidt, C., 2010, Estimates of Global Biomass Burning Emissions using Fire Radiative Power Retrieved from Multiple Geostationary Satellites, 17th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanology, 27 September–1 October, Annapolis, MD, USA.

52. Zhang, X. and Kondragunta, S., 2010, Impacts of Climate Change on Biomass Burning Across the United States, the Association of American Geographer Annual Meeting, 14-18 April, Washington, D.C., USA.

53. Zhang, X. and Goldberg, M.D, 2010, The generation of time series vegetative NDVI trajectory and long-term phenological trends from AVHRR data, Phenology 2010 Conference and An International Workshop on the Validation of Satellite-based Land Surface Phenology Products, 14 - 18 June, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

54. Zhang, X. and Goldberg, M.D, 2010, Monitoring Fall Foliage Dynamics Using Time Series of Satellite Data, 2010 US-IALE (International Association for Landscape Ecology) Twenty-fifth Anniversary Symposium, 5-9 April 2010, Athens, Georgia, USA.

55. Schaaf, C., Shuai, Y., Wang, Z., Strahler, A., Zhang, X., Roy, D., Richardson, A., 2010, Daily Land Surface Albedo And Reflectance Anisotropy From MODIS, IGARSS 2010, 25-30 July, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

56. Kondragunta, S., Zhang, X., Schmidt, C., Pierce, R. B., 2010, Global Biomass Burning Emissions Product from a Constellation of Geostationary Satellites, IGARSS 2010, 25-30 July, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

57. Zhang, X., Kondragunta,S, 2010, Near Real Time Monitoring of Global Biomass Burning Emissions by Integrating Fire Observations from Geostationary Satellites, 8th Annual NCAR Early Career Scientist Assembly (ECSA) Junior Faculty Forum (JFF), 13-15 July, Boulder, Colorado, USA.

58. Zhang, X., Friedl, M, 2009, Long-term Detection and Real-Time Monitoring of Vegetation Phenology and Crop Growth from Multiple Satellite Instruments, 6th International symposium on digital earth, 09-12 September, Beijing, China.

59. Zhang, X., Kondragunta,S., Ruminski, M., 2009, Spatiotemporal Variations In Burned Areas And Biomass Burning Emissions Derived From Multiple Satellite-Based Active Fires Across The USA, 18th Annual International Emission Inventory Conference "Comprehensive Inventories -Leveraging Technology and Resources", 14–17 April, Baltimore, MD, http://www.epa.gov/ttn/chief/conference/ei18/session4/zhang.pdf.

60. Zhang, X, Kondragunta, S., 2008, Vegetation Burned Areas Derived from Multiple Satellite-based Active Fires, W.M. Hao (ed), Proceedings of SPIE: Remote Sensing and Application, Vol. 7089, 70890D-1-12, SPIE conference, 10-14 August, San Diego, California.

61. Pouliot, G., Pierce, T., Zhang, X., Kondragunta, S., Wiedinmyer, C., Pace, T., and Mobley, D., 2008, The impact of satellite-derived biomass burning emission estimates on air quality, W.M. Hao (ed), Proceedings of SPIE: Remote Sensing and Application, Vol. 7089, 70890F-1-12, SPIE conference, 10-14 August, San Diego, CA.

62. Zhang, X, Kondragunta, S., 2008, Biomass Burning Emissions from GOES Imager and simulated GOES-R Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) Fires, 2008 GOES-R Annual Conference, 23-26 June, Madison, Wisconsin.

63. Zhang, X., Kondragunta, S., Varma Raja, M.K.R. 2008, Hourly Biomass Burning Emissions Inventory Derived From GOES Data, 17th Annual International Emission Inventory Conference

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"Inventory Evolution - Portal to Improved Air Quality", Portland, Oregon - June 2 - 5. www.epa.gov/ttn/chief/conference/ei17/session1/zhang.pdf.

64. Zhang, X., Kondragunta, S., Schmidt, C., 2007, Biomass combustions from wildland fires derived from the GOES fire radiative power, AGU Fall Meeting, 10-14December, San Francisco, CA.

65. Zhang, X., Kondragunta, S., 2007, Estimating burned areas using GOES instantaneous fire sizes., EastFire07 Conference, 5-8 June, Fairfax, Virginia.

66. Zhang, X., Kondragunta, S., Schmidt, C., 2007, Near real-time monitoring of biomass burning particulate emissions (PM2.5) using multiple satellite data, EastFire07 Conference, 5-8 June, Fairfax, Virginia.

67. Al-Saadi, J., Soja, A., Pierce, B., Kittaka, C., Emmons, L., Kondragunta, S., Zhang X., Wiedinmyer, C., Schaack, T., Szykman, J., 2007, Global near-real-time estimates of biomass burning emissions using satellite active fire detections, 16th Annual International Emission Inventory Conference Emission Inventories: Integration, Analysis, and Communications, 14 - 17May, Raleigh, NC.

68. Shuai, Y., Schaaf, C.B., Strahler, A.H., Li X., Gao, F., Liu, J., Wolf, R.E., Wang, J., Zhang, X., Zhu, Q., 2007, Monitoring vegetation phenology using improved MODIS products, Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering, ISSN 0277-786X CODEN PSISDG, 12-15 November, Beijing, China.

69. Zhang X., Kondragunta, S., 2006, Using GOES Instantaneous fire sizes as a proxy for burned area, GOFC/GOLD 2nd Fire Monitoring Workshop, 4-6 December, Germany.

70. Zhang X., Kondragunta, S., Kogan, F., Tarpley, J.D., Schmidt, C., 2006, Near Real-time Monitoring of Biomass Burning Particulate Emissions (PM2.5) Using Multiple Satellite Data. SPIE Symposium, 13-17August, San Diego.

71. Zhang X., Kondragunta, S., Kogan, F., Tarpley, J.D. Guo, W., Schmidt, C., 2006, Near Real-time Monitoring of Biomass Burning Particulate Emissions (PM2.5) Using Multiple Satellite Data, AGU Joint Assembly, 23-26 May, Baltimore, MD.

72. Zhang X., Kondragunta, S., Kogan, F., Tarpley, J.D. Guo, W., Schmidt, C., 2006, Satellite-derived pm2.5 emissions from wildfires for air quality forecast, 15th Annual Emission Inventory Conference, 16-18 May, New Orleans. The paper is in http://www.epa.gov/ttn/chief/conference/ei15/session10/kondragunta.pd

73. Zhang X., Kondragunta, S, and Schmidt, C., 2006, Estimates of Biomass Burning Particulate Matter (PM2.5) Emissions from the GOES Imager, 2006 GOES-R User’s Conference, 1-3 May, Boulder, Colorado.

74. Kondragunta, S, Zhang, X., 2006, Satellite-Derived Biomass Burning PM2.5 Emissions In Near Real Time For Air Quality Forecasting Applications, AQRS Meeting, February, 2006, Boulder.

75. Zhang, X., Kondragunta, S., Kogan, F., Tarpley, J.D., Guo, W., Wiedinmyer, C., Schmidt, C., 2005, Estimating Vegetative Fuel Loadings and Fuel Moisture Using Satellite Data for Modeling Biomass Burning Emissions, AGU Fall Meeting, 5-9 December, San Francisco, CA.

76. Friedl, M.A., Zhang X. 2005 (Invited), Monitoring global vegetation phenology from MODIS: Spatio-temporal correspondence between climate and vegetation activity at regional to global scales. AGU Fall Meeting, 5-9 December, San Francisco, CA.

77. Zhang, X., Kondragunta, S., Tarplry, D, 2005, Mapping fuel loading and its dynamics using MODIS data. Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Physical Measurements and Signatures in Remote Sensing, 17-19-Octomber, Beijing, pp527-529.

78. Zhang, X., Friedl, M.A., Schaaf, C.B., Strahler, A.H., Hodges, J.C.F., 2004, Exploring Climate Driven Dynamics in Vegetation Phenology Using Data from MODIS, AGU Fall Meeting, 13-17 December, San Francisco, CA.

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79. Friedl, M.A., Zhang, X., Hodges, J.C.F, and Strahler, A.H., 2004, MODIS Global Land Cover and Global Vegetation Phenology, MODIS Vegetation Workshop II. School of Forestry, University of Montana, 18 August, Missoula, MT.

80. Zhang, X., M.A. Friedl, C.B. Schaaf and A.H. Strahler, 2003, Urbanization and agricultural influences on global vegetation phenology observed using MODIS data, AGU Chapman Conference on Ecosystem Interactions with Land Use Change, 14-18 June, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

81. Zhang, X., Friedl, M.A., Schaaf, C.B., Strahler, A.H., Hodges, J.C.F.,and Gao, F., 2003, Global Observation Of Vegetation Phenology From MODIS Data, Proceedings International Conference Challenging Times Towards an operational system for monitoring, modelling and forecasting of phonological changes and their socioeconomic impact, Edited by: Arnold J.H. van Vliet, 31 March to 2 April 2003, Wageningen, The Netherlands.

82. Friedl, M.A., Zhang X. and Tsvetsinskaya E., 2003, Observing and deriving land cover properties and dynamics for use in weather and climate models, Preprints, Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society, paper J8.1, 9-13 February, Long Beach California.

83. Zhang, X., Friedl, M. A., Schaaf, C. B., Strahler, A. H., Hodges, J. C., and Gao, F. 2002, Mapping global vegetation phenology using 1 KM MODIS dada, Proceedings of 15th Conference on Biometeorology/Aerobiology and 16th International Congress of Biometeorology, October 28-November 1, Kansas City, Missouri, USA, pp. 343-347.

84. Zhang, X., Schaaf, C. B., Friedl, M. A., Strahler, A. H., Gao, F., and Hodges, J. C. 2002, MODIS tasseled cap transformation and its utility. Proceedings of IEEE 2002 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium and the 24th Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing, 24-28 June, Toronto, Canada, II, pp. 1149-1151.

85. Zhang, X., Friedl, M. A., Schaaf, C. B., Strahler, A. H., Hodges, J. C., and Gao, F. 2002, Using MODIS data to study the relation between climatic spatial variability and vegetation phenology in northern high latitude, Proceedings of IEEE 2002 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium and the 24th Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing, 24-28June, Toronto, Canada, vol. II, pp. 1149-1151.

86. Friedl, M. A., Strahler, A. H., Zhang, X, and Hodges, J. C. 2002, The MODIS land cover product: multiattribute mapping of global vegetation and land cover products from time series MODIS data, Proceedings of IEEE 2002 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium and the 24th

Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing, 24-28 June, Toronto, Canada, vol. IV, pp. 3199-3201. 87. Schaaf, C. B., Strahler, A. H., Gao, F., Lucht, W., Jin, Y., Li, X., Zhang, X., Tsvetsinskaya, E., Muller,

J. P., Lewis, P., Barnsley, M., Roberts, G., Doll, C., Liang, S., Roy, D., Privette, J. 2002, Global albedo, BRDF and nadir, BRDF-adjusted reflectance products from MODIS. Proceedings of IEEE 2002 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium and the 24th Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing, 24-28 June, Toronto, Canada, 1188-1190.

88. Friedl, M.A., Strahler, A.H., Zhang X. and Hodges J.C.F., 2002, Mapping global land cover properties and dynamics using MODIS data, Eos. Trans. AGU, 83(47) Fall Meeting Suppl., Abstract B61B-0715. 6-10, December, San Francisco, CA.

89. Friedl, M.A., A. Strahler, X. Zhang, and J. Hodges 2002, The MODIS land cover product: multi-attribute mapping of global vegetation and land cover properties from time series MODIS data, Proceedings of the International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), vol. IV, pp. 3199-3201.

90. Friedl, M.A., D. McIver, J.C.F. Hodges, X. Zhang, S. Gopal, C.E. Woodcock and A.H. Strahler 2001, Land Cover Mapping from MODIS: First Results and Future Directions, 8th International Colloquium

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on Physical Measurements and Signatures in Remote Sensing, 8-12 January, Aussois, France, pp. 3-8.

91. Zhang, X., Hodges, J. C., Schaaf, C. B., Friedl, M. A., Strahler, A. H., and Gao, F. 2001, Global vegetation phenology from AVHRR and MODIS data, Proceedings of IEEE 2001 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, July 2001, Sidney, Australia, VOL 5, pages V: 2262-2264.

92. Schaaf, C.B., A.H. Strahler, F. Gao, W. Lucht, X. Li, X. Zhang, Y. Jin, E. Tsvetsinskaya, J.-P. Muller, P. Lewis, M. Barnsley, G. Roberts, C. Doll, S. Liang, and J.L. Privette, 2001, MODIS Operational Bidirectional Reflectance and Albedo Products, IGARSS01, IEEE, 9 – 13 July, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

93. Zhang, X., Schaaf, C. B., Gao, F., Friedl, M. A., Strahler, A. H., and Hodges, J. C. 2000, Mapping land cover and green vegetation abundance using MODIS-like data: a case study of New England, Proceedings of IEEE 2000 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 24-28 July, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, CD-ROM.

94. Drake, N. A., Zhang, X., Wooster, M., and Patterson, G. 1999, Near real time monitoring and modeling of soil erosion at a regional scale using remote sensing and GIS: an example from the Lake Tanganyika catchment. International Geographical Union Commission on Land Degradation and Desertification (COMLAND), 6th Meeting, 20-28, September, University of Western Australia, Australia.

95. Zhang, X., Drake, N. A., Wainwright, J. 1998, Downscaling land surface parameters for global soil erosion estimation. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on GeoComputation, 17-19th

September, University of Bristol, UK, CD-ROM. 96. Zhang, X., Drake, N. A., Wainwright, J. and Mulligan, M. 1998, Estimating the spatial distribution

of vegetation cover at various scales from coarse resolution imagery. IGB'98 -Geostatistical and Geospatial Techniques for Remote Sensing of Land Surface Processes, 6-8 January, Kingston University, UK.

97. Drake, N.A., Zhang, X., Vafeides, A., Symeonakis, E., Wainwright, J. and Mulligan, M. 1998, Modeling soil erosion using remote sensing and GIS: scaling issues for implementing models at global and regional scales, IBG'98-Modelling Geomorphological Processes in A GIS Framework, 6-8 January, Kingston University, UK.

98. Zhang, X., Drake, N. A., Wainwright, J., and Mulligan, M., 1997, Global scale overland flow and soil erosion modeling using remote sensing and GIS techniques: model implementation and scaling, In Griffiths and Pearson (eds.), RSS97 Observations & Interactions- 23rd Annual Conference and Exhibition of the Remote Sensing Society, The Remote Sensing Society, Nottingham, UK, pp. 379-384.

99. Zhang, X., Drake, N. A., Wainwright, J., and Mulligan, M. 1997, Comparison of GISbased algorithms for calculating slopes from regional to global scales, GIS Research UK 1997, April 1997, University of Leeds, UK.

100. Zhang, X., Drake, N. A., Wainwright, J. and Mulligan, M. 1996, Comparison of GIS based models for estimating monthly land surface fluxes at the global scale, In Proceedings of 1st International Conference on GeoComputation, Vol. II, 17-19 September, University of Leeds, UK, pp. 879-899.

101. Drake, N. A., Vafeidis, A., Wainwright, J. and Zhang, X. 1995, Modeling soil erosion using remote sensing and GIS techniques. In Proceedings of the Twenty-First Annual Conference of the Remote Sensing Society: RSS'95 Remote Sensing in Action, 11-14 September, Southampton, UK, pp. 217-224.

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102. Zhang, X. 1992, Prediction of the future change of Dongting Lake, In Proceedings of The Natural Environmental Changes and Possible Countermeasures in Jianghan-Donting Plain, Sashi, Hubei, China. (Chinese).

103. Zhang, X. 1991, Investigation of the dynamic changes of swamping in Jianghan-Dongting Plain using remotely sensed data, In Proceedings of Application of Remote Sensing Technique in Hubei Province, Wuhan, China. (Chinese).

PhD Dissertation Remote Sensing and GIS for Modeling Soil Erosion at the Global Scale

Master’s Dissertation Evolution of Dongting Lake since Holocene.

RESEARCH PROJECTS AND WORK EXPERIENCES

A multi-scale satellite-based indicator of climate change impacts on land-surface phenology, 01/ 1/2016-12/31/2018, $434K, J. Gray (BU), M. Friedl (BU), X. Zhang (SDSU), K. Gerst (AZ), NASA.

Global Biomass Burning Emissions (GBBEP) Product, 09/11/2015-12/31/2017, $160K. PI at SDSU: X. Zhang, NOAA.

Development and Validation of a Global Land Surface Phenology Product from NPP VIIRS for EOS-MODIS Continuity. NASA, 11/2014-10/2017, $685K, PI: X. Zhang (SDSU), CoIs: G. Henebry (SDSU) and M.A. Friedl (BU).

Suomi NPP VIIRS BRDF/Albedo/NBAR Products to Extend the Long Term Consistent MODIS Standard Data Record. C. Schaaf (UMass-Boston), A. Strahler (BU), X. Zhang (SDSU), W. Zhuosen (NASA), NASA, 08/2014-07/2017, $592K. 0.6 person months/year for Zhang ($97K under Zhang).

Develop Near Real Time Biomass Burning Emissions Product Covering the Whole Globe From Polar And Geostationary Satellites for NEMS-GFS-GOCART. NASA-NOAA Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation, 08/2011-6/2014, $610K, PI at SDSU: X. Zhang, Project PI at NOAA: S. Kondragunta.

Monitoring land surface vegetation phenology from VIIRS. NOAA JPSS Risk Reduction Programs, 07/2013-06/2016, $380K, PI at SDSU: X. Zhang, Project PI at NOAA: B. Yu.

Real-Time Monitoring and Short-term Forecasting of Phenology from GOES-R ABI for the Use in Numerical Weather Prediction Models. NOAA, 07/2014-06/2017, $346K, PI at SDSU: X. Zhang (SDSU), Project PI: Y. Yu (NOAA).

Change in our MIDST: Detection and Analysis of Land Surface Dynamics in North and South America Using Multiple Sensor Data streams. NASA, 07/01/2014-06/30/2017, $1.1M, G. Henebry (PI), X. Zhang (Co-I), K. (Co-I M. de Beurs).

Develop Near Real Time Biomass Burning Emissions Product Covering the Whole Globe From Polar And Geostationary Satellites for NEMS-GFS-GOCART. NASA-NOAA JCSDA, 08/2011-6/2014, $610K, Project PI: S. Kondragunta (NOAA), Co-I: X. Zhang (UMD and SDSU).

Vegetation phenology and enhanced vegetation index products from multiple long term satellite data records. NASA, 08/01/08-07/31/13, $3,441,131, PI at ERT/NOAA: X. Zhang, Project PI: K. Didan (UA).

Biomass Burning Emissions Product from GOES-R ABI. NOAA Contract No. / Task No. DG133R-07-NC-1616, Mod 12/8407-003, 8/2011-7/2012, $53,000, X. Zhang (task leader), S. Kondragunta (task monitor).

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Global Biomass Burning Emissions Product (GBBEP) from a Constellation of Geostationary Satellites for Operational Use in NWS/NCEP GFS-GOCART. NOAA Contract No. / Task No. DG133R-07-NC-1616, Mod 12/8407-001, 8/2011-7/2012, $50,000, X. Zhang (task leader), S. Kondragunta (task monitor).

Global Biomass Burning Emissions Product (GBBEP) from Multiple Geostationary Satellites. NOAA Contract No./Task No. DG133E-06-CQ-0030/N154-001, 7/2010-12/2011, $200,000, X. Zhang (task leader), S. Kondragunta (task monitor).

Derive Biomass Burning Emissions from GOES WildFire Automated Biomass Burning (WF_ABBA) Fire Products. NOAA Contract No./Task No. DG133E-06-CQ-0030/T102, 04/2005-12/2011, $550,000, X. Zhang (task leader), S. Kondragunta (task monitor).

POES/METOP Product Validation--Assess AVHRR NDVI product through generation and validation of phenology applications. NOAA Contract No./Task No. DG133E-06-CQ-0030/T140, 08/2009-10/2011, $40,000, X. Zhang (task leader), M. Goldberg (task monitor).

Develop GOES-R ABI Aerosol & Trace Gas Emissions Algorithm. NOAA Contract No./Task No. DG133E-06-CQ-0030/T124A, 6/2009-12/2011, X. Zhang (task leader), S. Kondragunta (task monitor).

Adaptation of the GOES Emissions Algorithm to GOES-R ABI. NOAA SciTech Contract: DG133E-06-CQ-0030/8003-080, 6/2007-5/2009, X. Zhang (task leader), S. Kondragunta (task monitor).

Analysis of AVHRR Climate-Quality Land Products. NOAA Contract No./Task No. DG133E-06-CQ-0030/8003-034, X04/2005—12/2007, $150,000, Zhang (task leader), D. Tarpley (task monitor).

Global land cover and land cover dynamics from MODIS: algorithm refinement in support of global change research. NASA, 1/2004-12/2006, $698,049, M.A. Friedl (PI), X. Zhang (Co-I).

Real Time Estimation and Assimilation of Remotely Sensed Surface Properties for Numerical Weather Prediction Models. NOAA, 6/2004-5/2007, $454,987, M.A. Friedl (PI), X. Zhang (Co-I).

Retrieval of Time-Varying Land Cover and Vegetation Properties from MODIS in Support of the NCEP-WRF Land Surface Mode. NOAA, 8/2003-7/2004, $100,000, M.A. Friedl (PI), X. Zhang (Co-I).

Land Cover/Land-Cover Change, Albedo, BRDF/Directional Reflectance and Spatial Structure Products from MODIS-N and MODIS-T. NASA, 1/1992 - 12/2003, $9,464,991, A.H. Strahler (PI), X. Zhang (Research Associate).

NRI/UNDP Lake Tanganeka Biodiversity Project Special Sediment Study. 8/1998-3/1999, M. Wooster (PI), N. Drake (Co-I), X. Zhang (Researcher).

Remote Sensing for Estimating Rice Yield in Central China. Supported by Chinese National Eighth Five-Year Plan, 1990-1995, X. Zhang (PI).

Studies on Fishery Ecology in the Shallow Lake of Middle and Low Reaches of the Yangtze River. Supported by Eighth Five-Year Plan of the Chinese Academy of Science, 1992-1995, S. Cai (PI), X. Zhang (Co-I).

Remotely Sensed Investigation of Natural Resources & Environment in China and their Dynamics. Supported by Five-Year Plan of the Chinese Academy of Science, 1992-1995, S. Cai (PI), X. Zhang (Co-I).

Studies of Exploitation of Aquatic Biological Productivity and Improvement of Ecological Environment in Lake Honghu. Supported by Seventh Five-Year Plan of the Chinese Academy of Science, 1987-1990, S. Cai (PI), X. Zhang (Co-I).

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Relationship between Human Activities and Environmental Changes in Honghu Area. An International Joint Research with Liverpool University (UK), supported by the Chinese National Foundation of Natural Science, 1991-1994, S. Cai (PI), X. Zhang (Co-I).

Studies of Natural Resources & Environment and Adjustment of Ecological Agriculture in Sihui District. Supported by Seventh Five-Year Plan of the Hubei Province, 1984-1990, S. Cai (PI), X. Zhang (Co-I).

Effects of the Three Gorge Project on Lake Environmental Evolution, Potential Gleization, and Creation of Marshes in the North and South of Jingjiang River (Four Lake District). Supported by Chinese National Seventh Five-Year Plan, 1985-1991. S. Cai (PI), X. Zhang (Co-I).

Planning of Agriculture and Ecological Economy in Four Lake District. Supported by Seventh Five-Year Plan of the Hubei Province, 1986-1990, S. Cai (PI), X. Zhang (Co-I).

The Evolution of Jianghan-Tongting Lakes. Supported by Chinese National Foundation of Natural Science, 1984-1987, S. Cai (PI), X. Zhang (Co-I).

Operational Computer Codes and Products Global near real time biomass burning emissions product from polar and geostationary satellites

(will be publically available soon in NOAA) NOAA Blended Polar Geo Biomass Burning Emissions Product (Blended-BBEP) (NOAA) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite Biomass Burning Emission Product (GBBEP)

(NOAA) MODIS land cover and land cover dynamics (vegetation phenology) (NASA)

TEACHING

Courses “GEOG 485-S01 Quantitative Remote Sensing” is designed for senior level undergraduate students.

This course concentrates on learning advanced concepts and methods in remote sensing and digital processing. This course was taught from spring semester 2015.

“GSE/GEOG 760–S01 Advanced Methods in Geospatial Modeling: Computation for Remote Sensing Analysis and Product Generation” or Geocomputation for short. This is a doctoral-level class, which has never been taught before at SDSU or other universities. It focuses on Linux Operating System computer programming in support of remote sensing analysis and product development. This course was taught from fall semester 2014.

Academic Advising

Student Advising and Mentoring Fangjun Li, enrolled GSCE PhD program in spring 2014. Jianmin Wang, enrolled in GSCE PhD program in Fall 2015.

Graduate Student Committees Milkah Kahiu, PhD student at GSCE, SDSU (in progress) Confiance Mfuka, PhD student at GSCE, SDSU (in progress) Yan Liu, PhD student at UMass-Boston (in progress)

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Sefa Adekpui, MS student at GSCE, SDSU (in progress) Yanmin Shuai, Boston University, graduated in May 2009, PhD Lucia Lovison, Boston University, graduated in May 2014, PhD. Marcelline Ngomba Ndekelu, SDSU, graduated in July, 2015, MS. Ashish Shrestha, SDSU, graduated in July, 2015, MS.

Graduate faculty representative AKM Ahsan Ahmed (a PhD student at Chemistry) on 12/11/2014. Mollie Reints (Master student in in Health and Nutrition Science) on 07/01/2015.

Visiting scholar Linling Liu was a visiting scholar from Chinese Academy of Sciences during January –August,

2014. Lijing Li was a visiting scholar from Peking University during March –June, 2013.

Postdoctoral Scientist Dr. Dong Yan joined in June 2014 after graduating from University of Oklahoma. Dr. Linling Liu joined in September 2014 after gaining her PhD degree from the Institute of

Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Dr. J. Senthilnath joined in February, 2015 from Department of Aerospace Engineering.

SERVICE

Media Coverage of Research 11/2014: interviewed by Research Writer in SDSU and widely reported by new media including

United Nation, NOAA, ScienceNews, Livescience, and SDSU. 12/2014: Featured news article in Cooperative Institute for Climate & Satellites-Maryland Earth

System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University Maryland 5/2010: Interviewed by EnvironmentalResearchWeb Newswire. 2/2008: Interviewed by the Associated Press. 11/2007: Interviewed by media including New Scientist Magazine, Wired Magazine, Natural

History Magazine, and LiveScience, separately. 7/2004 Interviewed by media: Science News (newsmagazine), NASA press release, The Atlanta

Journal-Constitution, and The Republican, separately.

Service to SDSU Search committee, as a member for searching a Research Assistant Professor for GSCE in July

2015. Search Committee, as a member for searching a Computer and Information Research Scientist for

GSCE in March 2015. Search Committee, as a chair for searching a Geospatial Analyst for GSCE in February 2015. Standard Document Committee at Department of Geography in Fall 2014-spring 2015. SDSU Research and Scholarship Committee since Fall 2014

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Invited Seminar

06/11/2015-06/12/2015: Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China. (Three lectures). 06/10/2015: Zhejiang University at Hangzhou, China. 06/09/2015: Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China. 06/08/2015: Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth (RADI), Chinese Academy of

Sciences, Beijing, China. 03/20/2015: South Dakota State Geography Convention, South Dakota State University, SD. 4/11/2014: Peking University. 4/8/2014: Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology. 5/2012: Peking University. 9/2010: Department of Geography and Geoinformation Science, George Mason University 10/2009: University of Alabama Huntsville. 2/2008: NOAA/NESDIS/STAR. 10/2007: NASA Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Branch. 10/2006: EastFIRE Lab/ESGS/CEOSR, College of Science, 3/17/2006: Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, University of Maryland 2/28/2006: NASA AEROCENTER 11/8/2004: Department of Biology, Boston University

Academic Service

Proposal and panel review Joint Fire Science Program (two proposals in January 2015) National Science Foundation (one proposal in December 2014) US Environmental Protection Agency Grants (proposals and panel review, July 2009). Netherlands Space Office (one proposal, February, 2012).

Scientific member: NASA Suomi-NPP Land Science Team from 2014 to present

Paper reviewer for scientific journals: 1) Agriculture and Forest Meteorology 2) Applied Journal of Remote Sensing 3) Applied Mathematical Modelling 4) Atmospheric Environment 5) Chinese Science Bulletin 6) Computer & Geosciences 7) Earth Interactions 8) Ecology Letters 9) Environmental Research Letters 10) Geoinformatics & Geostatistics: An Overview 11) Geophysical Research Letters 12) Global Change Biology 13) Hydrological processes 14) Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions

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15) IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters 16) IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing 17) IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 18) International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 19) International Journal of Climatology 20) International Journal of Digital Earth 21) International Journal of Remote Sensing 22) International Journal of Wildfire 23) Journal of Biography 24) Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmosphere 25) Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeoscience 26) Journal of Mountain Science 27) Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 28) Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE B 29) Landscape and Urban Planning 30) Landscape Ecology 31) Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 32) PLoS ONE 33) Remote Sensing Letters 34) Remote Sensing of Environment 35) Remote Sensing 36) Sensors 37) Computers and Electrics in Agriculture 38) Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment

Memberships of professional societies American Geophysical Union (AGU) Association of American Geographers (AAG) International Association of Wildland Fire (IAWF) Meteorological Society (AMS)

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