Y.Q. (Yeqiao) Wang

yqwang@uri.edu

University of Rhode Island

Department of Natural Resources Science 

Coastal Institute in Kingston, #26

1 Greenhouse Road

Kingston, RI 02881

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Dr. Wang's research interests are in terrestrial remote sensing and quantitative methods in natural resources analysis and mapping. Particular areas of interests include remote sensing of the dynamics of landscape and land-use/land-cover change. Main research focus is in developing of modeling mechanisms to bridge driving forces (both socioeconomic and natural factors) and the consequences of land-cover changes so that the human impacts on ecosystems can be effectively modeled. His research projects have addressed identification of natural communities and regional vegetation mapping for biodiversity conservation by integration of multispectral, multitemporal, multisensor remote sensing data, in situ observations, and GIS/GPS data

Currently he is working on his NASA funded projects "Multiple Innovative Models in Land Cover Change Study (Grant No.NAG58829)," and "Investigation of Aerodynamic and Radiometric Land Surface Temperatures (Grant No. NAG58739)". He has recently finished a NASA funded research project entitled "Tracking Natural Community Fragmentation and Changes in Land Use and Land Cover: A Case Study of Chicago Wilderness (Grant No. GP37J), in which he developed land cover maps of northeastern Illinois in 1972, 1985, 1997, and the quantitative analysis.

Dr. Wang teaches classes in terrestrial remote sensing. His Laboratory for Terrestrial Remote Sensing possesses the capacities in process and analysis of digital airborne and spaceborne remote analysis of urban land-cover changes in the metropolitan Chicago region. His main research focus is to develop modeling mechanisms to bridge the driving forces (both socioeconomic and natural factors) and the consequences of land cover changes so that the impacts of human-induced land-cover/landscape changes on the ecosystems can be more effectively modeled.

Wang, Y. and X. Zhang, 1999. "Dynamic Modeling Approach to Simulating Socioeconomic Effects on Landscape Change," Ecological Modelling, (in press).

Wang, Y. and D.K. Moskovits, 1999. "Tracking Fragmentation of Natural Communities and Changes in Land Cover: Applications of Landsat Data for Conservation in Chicago Wilderness," Conservation Biology, (in press).

Wang, Y. and D.L. Civco, 1996. "Three Artificial Neural Network Paradigms in Multisource Spatial Data Land Cover Classification," Geographic Information Sciences, 1(2): 73-87.

Wang, Y., and D.L. Civco, 1994. "Classification of Multisource Spatial Data for Improved Land Cover Mapping Using Evidential Reasoning," Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing, 20(4): 382-395.