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!!

Prof. Diao was featured in LAS expert profile for understanding the future through the land around us. More info could be found in https://las.illinois.edu/news/2024-04-24/understanding-future-through-land-around-us

Welcome Jack to our lab! Jack is a senior at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, majoring in Geography and Geographic Information Science, with a minor in Japanese Arts and Aesthetics. His research interests include agriculture remote sensing, environmental remote sensing, and GIS in transportation and public health.

Prof. Diao was selected into the 2024 AAG Fellows (https://www.aag.org/2024-aag-awards-recognition/#fellows)! The AAG Fellows is a recognition and service program that applauds geographers who have made significant contributions to advancing geography.

We developed a novel CropSow modeling framework to estimate field-level planting dates by integrating the remote sensing phenological detecting method with the crop growth model. The remote sensing phenological detecting method is devised to retrieve the critical crop phenological metrics of farm fields from remote sensing time series, which are then integrated into the crop […]