Dr. Yun Yang
Title
- Assistant Professor
Contact Information
yy285@msstate.edu
Office: 662-325-7948
Thompson Hall, Rm 349
Overview
Education
- University of Massachusetts, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Environmental Science
- University of Massachusetts, Master of Science (M.S.), Environmental Science
- Beijing Normal University, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Geography
Research Interests
Field-scale evapotranspiration mapping using remotely sensed data with cloud computing
Multi-sensor data fusion for improved spatiotemporal sampling
Vegetation health monitoring for agriculture and natural resources management
Publications
Year | Publications |
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2024 | Ahmad, S., Holmes, T., Kumar, S., Lahmers, T., Liu, P., Nie, W., Getirana, A., Bindlish, R., Guzman, A., Melton, F., Locke, K., Yang, Y. 2024. Droughts dominate ecosystem recovery from fires in the Western US. Nature Ecology and Evolution 8(229-238). |
2023 | Tiwari, P., Poudel, K. P., Yang, J., Silva, B., Yang, Y., McConnell, M. D. 2023. Marginal agricultural land identification in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley based on remote sensing and machine learning model. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 125:103568. |
2023 | Knipper, K., Yang, Y., Anderson, M., Bambach, N., Kustas, W., McElrone, A., Gao, F., Alsina, M. M. 2023. Decreased latency in landsat-derived land surface temperature products: A case for near-real-time evapotranspiration estimation in California. Agricultural Water Management 283:108316. |
2023 | Volk, J. M., Huntington, J., Melton, F. S., Allen, R., Anderson, M. C., Fisher, J. B., Kilic, A., Senay, G., Halverson, G., Knipper, K., Minor, B., Pearson, C., Wang, T., Yang, Y., Evett, S., French, A. N., Jasoni, R., Kustas, W. 2023. Development of a benchmark Eddy flux evapotranspiration dataset for evaluation of satellite-driven evapotranspiration models over the CONUS. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 331:109307. |
2023 | Isaacson, B. N., Yang, Y., Anderson, M. C., Clark, K. L., Grabosky, J. C. 2023. The effects of forest composition and management on evapotranspiration in the New Jersey Pinelands. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 339:109588. |
2022 | Lee, S., Qi, J., McCarty, G. W., Anderson, M., Yang, Y., Zhang, X., Moglen, G. E., Kwak, D., Kim, H., Lakshmi, V., Kim, S. 2022. Combined use of crop yield statistics and remotely sensed products for enhanced simulations of evapotranspiration within an agricultural watershed. Agricultural Water Management 264. Download |
2022 | Kang, Y., Gao, F., Anderson, M., Kustas, W., Nieto, H., Knipper, K., Yang, Y., White, W., Alfieri, J., Torres-Rua, A., Alsina, M. M., Karnieli, A. 2022. Evaluation of satellite Leaf Area Index in California vineyards for improving water use estimation. Irrigation Science 40(4-5):531-551. Download |
2022 | Yang, Y., Anderson, M., Gao, F., Xue, J., Knipper, K., Hain, C. 2022. Improved Daily Evapotranspiration Estimation Using Remotely Sensed Data in a Data Fusion System. Remote Sensing 14(8). Download |
2022 | Xue, J., Anderson, M. C., Gao, F., Hain, C., Knipper, K. R., Yang, Y., Kustas, W. P., Yang, Y., Bambach, N., McElrone, A. J., Castro, S. J., Alfieri, J. G., Prueger, J. H., McKee, L. G., Hipps, L. E., del Mar Alsina, M. 2022. Improving the spatiotemporal resolution of remotely sensed ET information for water management through Landsat, Sentinel-2, ECOSTRESS and VIIRS data fusion. Irrigation Science 40(4-5):609-634. Download |
2022 | Wang, Y., Zhou, Y., Franz, K. J., Zhang, X., Qi, J., Jia, G., Yang, Y. 2022. Irrigation plays significantly different roles in influencing hydrological processes in two breadbasket regions. Science of the Total Environment 844. Download |
2022 | Volk, J., Huntington, J., Melton, F., Allen, R., Anderson, M., Dunkerly, C., Fisher, J., Friedrichs, M., Hain, C., Halverson, G., others, . 2022. OpenET Satellite-based ET Intercomparisons with Ground-based Measurements: Phase II Results. Authorea Preprints |
2021 | Kang, Y., Ozdogan, M., Gao, F., Anderson, M. C., White, W. A., Yang, Y., Yang, Y., Erickson, T. A. 2021. A data-driven approach to estimate leaf area index for Landsat images over the contiguous US. Remote Sensing of Environment 258. Download |
2021 | Aguilos, M., Sun, G., Noormets, A., Domec, J., McNulty, S., Gavazzi, M., Minick, K., Mitra, B., Prajapati, P., Yang, Y., King, J. 2021. Effects of land-use change and drought on decadal evapotranspiration and water balance of natural and managed forested wetlands along the southeastern US lower coastal plain. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 303. Download |
2021 | Cawse-Nicholson, K., Anderson, M. C., Yang, Y., Yang, Y., Hook, S. J., Fisher, J. B., Halverson, G., Hulley, G. C., Hain, C., Baldocchi, D. D., Brunsell, N. A., Desai, A. R., Griffis, T. J., Novick, K. A. 2021. Evaluation of a CONUS-Wide ECOSTRESS DisALEXI Evapotranspiration Product. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 14:10117-10133. Download |
2021 | Anderson, M. C., Yang, Y., Xue, J., Knipper, K. R., Yang, Y., Gao, F., Hain, C. R., Kustas, W. P., Cawse-Nicholson, K., Hulley, G., Fisher, J. B., Alfieri, J. G., Meyers, T. P., Prueger, J., Baldocchi, D. D., Rey-Sanchez, C. 2021. Interoperability of ECOSTRESS and Landsat for mapping evapotranspiration time series at sub-field scales. Remote Sensing of Environment 252. Download |
2021 | Xue, J., Anderson, M. C., Gao, F., Hain, C., Yang, Y., Knipper, K. R., Kustas, W. P., Yang, Y. 2021. Mapping daily evapotranspiration at field scale using the harmonized landsat and sentinel-2 dataset, with sharpened VIIRS as a sentinel-2 thermal proxy. Remote Sensing 13(17). Download |
2021 | Melton, F. S., Huntington, J., Grimm, R., Herring, J., Hall, M., Rollison, D., Erickson, T., Allen, R., Anderson, M., Fisher, J. B., Kilic, A., Senay, G. B., Volk, J., Hain, C., Johnson, L., Ruhoff, A., Blankenau, P., Bromley, M., Carrara, W., Daudert, B., Doherty, C., Dunkerly, C., Friedrichs, M., Guzman, A., Halverson, G., Hansen, J., Harding, J., Kang, Y., Ketchum, D., Minor, B., Morton, C., Ortega-Salazar, S., Ott, T., Ozdogan, M., ReVelle, P. M., Schull, M., Wang, C., Yang, Y., Anderson, R. G. 2021. OpenET: Filling a Critical Data Gap in Water Management for the Western United States. Journal of the American Water Resources Association Download |
2021 | Yang, Y., Anderson, M. C., Gao, F., Johnson, D. M., Yang, Y., Sun, L., Dulaney, W., Hain, C. R., Otkin, J. A., Prueger, J., Meyers, T. P., Bernacchi, C. J., Moore, C. E. 2021. Phenological corrections to a field-scale, ET-based crop stress indicator: An application to yield forecasting across the U.S. Corn Belt. Remote Sensing of Environment 257. Download |
2021 | Sun, L., Gao, F., Xie, D., Anderson, M., Chen, R., Yang, Y., Yang, Y., Chen, Z. 2021. Reconstructing daily 30 m NDVI over complex agricultural landscapes using a crop reference curve approach. Remote Sensing of Environment 253. Download |
2021 | Yang, Y., Anderson, M. C., Gao, F., Wood, J. D., Gu, L., Hain, C. 2021. Studying drought-induced forest mortality using high spatiotemporal resolution evapotranspiration data from thermal satellite imaging. Remote Sensing of Environment 265:112640. Download |
2021 | Yang, Y., Anderson, M. C., Gao, F., Johnson, D. M., Yang, Y., Sun, L., Dulaney, W., Hain, C. R., Otkin, J. A., Prueger, J., others, . 2021. Phenological corrections to a field-scale, ET-based crop stress indicator: An application to yield forecasting across the US Corn Belt. Remote Sensing of Environment 257:112337. |
2020 | Lei, F., Crow, W. T., Kustas, W. P., Dong, J., Yang, Y., Knipper, K. R., Anderson, M. C., Gao, F., Notarnicola, C., Greifeneder, F., McKee, L. M., Alfieri, J. G., Hain, C., Dokoozlian, N. 2020. Data assimilation of high-resolution thermal and radar remote sensing retrievals for soil moisture monitoring in a drip-irrigated vineyard. Remote Sensing of Environment 239. Download |
2020 | Yang, Y., Anderson, M., Gao, F., Hain, C., Noormets, A., Sun, G., Wynne, R., Thomas, V., Sun, L. 2020. Investigating impacts of drought and disturbance on evapotranspiration over a forested landscape in North Carolina, USA using high spatiotemporal resolution remotely sensed data. Remote Sensing of Environment 238. Download |
2020 | Xue, J., Anderson, M. C., Gao, F., Hain, C., Sun, L., Yang, Y., Knipper, K. R., Kustas, W. P., Torres-Rua, A., Schull, M. 2020. Sharpening ECOSTRESS and VIIRS land surface temperature using harmonized Landsat-Sentinel surface reflectances. Remote Sensing of Environment 251. Download |
2019 | Knipper, K. R., Kustas, W. P., Anderson, M. C., Alfieri, J. G., Prueger, J. H., Hain, C. R., Gao, F., Yang, Y., McKee, L. G., Nieto, H., Hipps, L. E., Alsina, M. M., Sanchez, L. 2019. Evapotranspiration estimates derived using thermal-based satellite remote sensing and data fusion for irrigation management in California vineyards. Irrigation Science 37(3):431-449. Download |
2019 | Anderson, M., Diak, G., Gao, F., Knipper, K., Hain, C., Eichelmann, E., Hemes, K. S., Baldocchi, D., Kustas, W., Yang, Y. 2019. Impact of insolation data source on remote sensing retrievals of evapotranspiration over the California delta. Remote Sensing 11(3). Download |
2018 | Anderson, M., Gao, F., Knipper, K., Hain, C., Dulaney, W., Baldocchi, D., Eichelmann, E., Hemes, K., Yang, Y., Medellin-Azuara, J., Kustas, W. 2018. Field-scale assessment of land and water use change over the California delta using remote sensing. Remote Sensing 10(6). Download |
2018 | Yang, Y., Anderson, M. C., Gao, F., Wardlow, B., Hain, C. R., Otkin, J. A., Alfieri, J., Yang, Y., Sun, L., Dulaney, W. 2018. Field-scale mapping of evaporative stress indicators of crop yield: An application over Mead, NE, USA. Remote Sensing of Environment 210:387-402. Download |
2018 | Kustas, W. P., Anderson, M. C., Alfieri, J. G., Knipppper, K., Torres-Rua, A., Parry, C. K., Nieto, H., Agam, N., White, W. A., Gao, F., McKee, L., Prueger, J. H., Hipppps, L. E., Los, S., Alsina, M. M., Sanchez, L., Sams, B., Dokoozlian, N., McKee, M., Jones, S., Yang, Y., Wilson, T. G., Lei, F., McElrone, A., Heitman, J. L., Howard, A. M., Post, K., Melton, F., Hain, C. 2018. The grape remote sensing atmospheric profile and evapotranspiration experiment. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 99(9):1791-1812. Download |
2018 | Kim, J. H., Hwang, T., Yang, Y., Schaaf, C. L., Boose, E., Munger, J. W. 2018. Warming-Induced Earlier Greenup Leads to Reduced Stream Discharge in a Temperate Mixed Forest Catchment. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 123(6):1960-1975. Download |
2018 | Castelli, M., Anderson, M., Yang, Y., Wohlfahrt, G., Bertoldi, G., Niedrist, G., Hammerle, A., Zhao, P., Zebisch, M., Notarnicola, C. 2018. Two-source energy balance modeling of evapotranspiration in Alpine grasslands. Remote Sensing of Environment 209:327--342. |
2017 | Yang, Y., Anderson, M. C., Gao, F., Hain, C. R., Semmens, K. A., Kustas, W. P., Noormets, A., Wynne, R. H., Thomas, V. A., Sun, G. 2017. Daily Landsat-scale evapotranspiration estimation over a forested landscape in North Carolina, USA, using multi-satellite data fusion. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 21(2):1017-1037. Download |
2017 | Yang, Y., Anderson, M., Gao, F., Hain, C., Kustas, W., Meyers, T., Crow, W., Finocchiaro, R., Otkin, J., Sun, L., Yang, Y. 2017. Impact of tile drainage on evapotranspiration in South Dakota, USA, based on high spatiotemporal resolution evapotranspiration time series from a multisatellite data fusion system. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 10(6):2550-2564. Download |
2017 | Sun, L., Anderson, M. C., Gao, F., Hain, C., Alfieri, J. G., Sharifi, A., McCarty, G. W., Yang, Y., Yang, Y., Kustas, W. P., McKee, L. 2017. Investigating water use over the Choptank River Watershed using a multisatellite data fusion approach. Water Resources Research 53(7):5298-5319. Download |
2017 | Wang, Z., Schaaf, C. B., Sun, Q., Kim, J., Erb, A. M., Gao, F., Román, M. O., Yang, Y., Petroy, S., Taylor, J. R., Masek, J. G., Morisette, J. T., Zhang, X., Papuga, S. A. 2017. Monitoring land surface albedo and vegetation dynamics using high spatial and temporal resolution synthetic time series from Landsat and the MODIS BRDF/NBAR/albedo product. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 59:104-117. Download |
2017 | Sun, L., Chen, Z., Gao, F., Anderson, M., Song, L., Wang, L., Hu, B., Yang, Y. 2017. Reconstructing daily clear-sky land surface temperature for cloudy regions from MODIS data. Computers and Geosciences 105:10-20. Download |
2017 | Sun, L., Anderson, M. C., Gao, F., Hain, C., Alfieri, J. G., Sharifi, A., McCarty, G. W., Yang, Y., Yang, Y., Kustas, W. P., others, . 2017. Investigating water use over the C hoptank R iver W atershed using a multisatellite data fusion approach. Water Resources Research 53(7):5298--5319. |
2016 | Wang, Z., Erb, A. M., Schaaf, C. B., Sun, Q., Liu, Y., Yang, Y., Shuai, Y., Casey, K. A., Román, M. O. 2016. Early spring post-fire snow albedo dynamics in high latitude boreal forests using Landsat-8 OLI data. Remote Sensing of Environment 185:71-83. Download |
2016 | Semmens, K. A., Anderson, M. C., Kustas, W. P., Gao, F., Alfieri, J. G., McKee, L., Prueger, J. H., Hain, C. R., Cammalleri, C., Yang, Y., others, . 2016. Monitoring daily evapotranspiration over two California vineyards using Landsat 8 in a multi-sensor data fusion approach. Remote Sensing of Environment 185:155--170. |
2011 | Tenenbaum, D. E., Yang, Y., Zhou, W. 2011. A comparison of object-oriented image classification and transect sampling methods for obtaining land cover information from digital orthophotography. GIScience \& Remote Sensing 48(1):112--129. |
Graduate Students
- Ian Sartorio
- WeiNa Duan
- Gaurav Baral
Society Memberships
- American Geophysical Union
- American Meteorological Society