We have a new USDA project, in collaboration with Dr. Shaowen Wang, to conduct intelligent field-level crop type mapping, crop phenology and condition retrieval, crop yield estimation, and forecasting at varying spatial and temporal scales. See more info: https://las.illinois.edu/news/2021-04-29/bringing-more-data-crop-forecasting  

Welcome Tianci and Yin to our lab! Tianci received her Master degree in Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing from Wuhan University, and Yin received his Master degree in Environment and Sustainability & Data Science from the University of Michigan. They joined our lab this fall, with research interests of remote sensing and machine learning in agricultural […]

Prof. Diao received a NASA Early Career Investigator Award. The NASA’s Early Career Award in Earth Science is to support outstanding research of scientists and engineers at the early stage of careers, and to foster scientific leadership in Earth science.

Dr. Diao is a co-guest editor of the special issue “Advancing Land Surface Phenological Analysis with High Spatial Resolution Imagery” in Remote Sensing. More info can be found at https://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/special_issues/LSP_HSR_imagery

Prof. Diao received the 2020 Early Career Scholars in Remote Sensing Award from the Remote Sensing Specialty Group (RSSG), Association of American Geographers (AAG) (http://www.aagrssg.org/career.html). The early career award seeks to recognize individuals who are poised to make outstanding contributions to the field of remote sensing and to the geographic community through their remote sensing […]