Starting from the fall of 2024, Zijun in our lab began as a tenure-track assistant professor in Earth and Ocean Sciences at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Congratulation!!

Chishan in our lab has been awarded the Frontera Computational Science fellowship for his project “Continental crop yield forecasts through satellite-driven crop growth modeling and computational technologies” (https://frontera-portal.tacc.utexas.edu/fellowship/awardees/2024-2025/) The Frontera fellowship program provides a year-long opportunity for talented graduate students to compute on the most powerful academic supercomputer in the world and collaborate with experts at […]

Prof. Diao was named the I. C. Gunsalus Scholar (2024-2025) by the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences of UIUC (https://las.illinois.edu/news/2024-08-01/college-las-announces-named-positions). The I.C. Gunsalus Scholar recognizes young faculty members for their scholarship and teaching in physical and life sciences.

Zhijie Zhou in our lab won the first place in the Student Honors Paper Competition in the AAG Annual Meeting (2024), organized by the Remote Sensing Specialty Group (RSSG). His paper presentation is “CropSight: towards a national-scale operational framework for object-based crop type ground truth retrieval using street view and PlanetScope satellite imagery”. Congratulations!!

Jack Chen in our lab won the third place in the Student Illustrated Paper Competition in the AAG Annual Meeting (2024), organized by the Remote Sensing Specialty Group (RSSG). His poster presentation is “CropSync: towards a large-scale operational framework for within-season crop type mapping using Google Street View and Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 imagery”. Congratulations!!