Publications

Malone, S.L., Schoettle, A.W., Burns, K.S. et al. Commun Earth Environ (2026).

Guo, J., Lee, X. & Zhang, K. Sci Rep. 

Keywords: Heat wave, Urban heat island, Surface evaporation, Surface energy balance, Surface biophysical driver

Ying Hu et al. Sci. Adv.12,eadx2075(2026).

Charles QC Li, Arianna Salazar-Miranda, Cities.

Keywords: Land use; Urban form; Travel distance; Sustainability; Machine learning 

High-spatiotemporal-resolution, frequent satellite data improve crop yield estimates, while coarse data underestimate yields in smallholder farms.

Grace McLeod, Mayavati Tupaj, Daniel Gann, Michael Ross, Sparkle L. Malone.

Keywords: Post-fire recovery, Ecosystem resilience, NDVI, Landsat 

Steeley, I. L., França, E. S., Epihov, D. Z., Planavsky, N. J., & Beerling, D. J. (2025). Plants, People, Planet, 1–18.

Gender shapes climate views: in poorer, less democratic nations, women less often link climate change to humans due to limited education and access.

This study used UAV imagery and semantic segmentation to accurately calculate farmland area for smart irrigation management.

Shijuan Chen, Erin Shives, Katie Lund, Colleen Murphy-Dunning, Karen C. Seto.

Keywords: Urban tree planting; Heat mitigation; Remote Sensing; GIS

In major U.S. cities over 30 years, people are walking faster, staying in public spaces for shorter periods, and having fewer group interactions.

T. Chakraborty, X. Lee.

Keywords: Urban heat island; Urban climate; Global study; Remote sensing; MODIS; Algorithm development