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Shunlin Liang
University of Maryland
Biography:
Shunlin Liang received his Ph.D degree in remote sensing and GIS from Boston University, Boston, MA. He was a Postdoctoral Research Associate with Boston University from 1992 to 1993 and a Validation Scientist with the NOAA/NASA Pathfinder AVHRR Land Project from 1993 to 1994. He is currently a Professor with the University of Maryland, College Park. His main research interests focus on spatio–temporal analysis of remotely sensed data, integration of data from different sources and numerical models, and linkage of remote sensing with carbon and water cycles. He authored the book Quantitative Remote Sensing of Land Surfaces (Wiley, 2004) and edited the book Advances in Land Remote Sensing: System, Modeling, Inversion and Application (Springer, 2008). He is a member of NASA ASTER and MODIS science teams and a Co-chair of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Commission VII/I Working Group on Fundamental Physics and Modeling. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING.
Research Area:
We reformulate the analysis of EOS data by developing a prototype data assimilation system to generate an improved suite of land products from multiple EOS data sets. The improved MODIS related products include land surface broadband albedos (MOD43), leaf area index/FPAR (MOD15), temperature, and spectral emissivities (MOD11). It will also generate some new products, such as new broadband albedos, incident solar radiation, broadband emissivities, and shortwave and longwave net radiation.
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