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**Yun Yang, Ph.D.*****Research Physical Scientist*****USDA-ARS Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory****Bldg. 007, Rm. 104, BARC-West****Beltsville, MD 20705 USA****Voice: (301) 504-8354****Fax: (301) 504-8931****Yun.Yang@usda.gov**  **Research Interests:** Field-scale evapotranspiration mapping using remotely sensed data with cloud computing.
Multi-sensor data fusion for improved spatiotemporal sampling.
Vegetation health monitoring for agriculture and natural resources management.  **Education:** 2004 B.S. (Geography) Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
2012 M.S. (Environmental Science) University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA.
2013 Ph.D. (Environmental Science) University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA.  **Professional Experience:** 2011-2013: Doctoral Research Assistant, School for the Environment, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA.
2013-2014: Postdoctoral Research Assistant, School for the Environment, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA.
2014-2018: Postdoctoral Fellow, USDA-ARS-Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Beltsville, MD.
2018-present: Assistant Research Scientist, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD & USDA-ARS HRSL.  **Selected Publications:**(please contact the author to determine reprint availability) (view author's publications/interpretive summaries/technical abstracts since 1999) Kang, Y., Gao, F.N., Anderson, M.C., Kustas, W.P., Nieto, H., Knipper, K.R., **Yang, Y.**, White, W.A., Torres-Rua, A., Alsina, M., Karnell, A. (2022), Evaluation of satellite leaf area index in California vineyards for improving water use estimation. *Irrigation Science.* doi:10.1007/s00271-022-00798-8. Cawse-Nicholson, K., Anderson, M.C., Yang, Y., **Yang, Y.**, Hook, S., Fisher, J., Halverson, G., Hulley, G., Hain, C., Brunsell, N., Desai, A.R., Novick, K.A. (2021), Evaluation of a CONUS-wide ECOSTRESS DisALEXI evapotranspiration product. *IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing.* 14:10117-10133. doi:10.1109/JSTARS.2021.3111867. Xue, J., Anderson, M.C., Gao, F.N., Hain, C., **Yang, Y.**, Knipper, K.R., Kustas, W.P., Yang, Y. (2021), Mapping daily evapotranspiration at field scale using the Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 dataset, with sharpened VIIRS as a Sentinel-2 thermal proxy. *Remote Sensing.* 13:3420. doi:10.3390/rs13173420. **Yang, Y.**, Anderson, M.C., Gao, F.N., Wood, J.D., Gu, L., Hain, C. (2021), Studying drought-induced forest mortality using high spatiotemporal resolution evapotranspiration data from thermal satellite imaging. *Remote Sensing of Environment.* 265:112640. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2021.112640. Xue, J., Anderson, M.C., Gao, F.N., Hain, C., Sun, L., **Yang, Y.**, Knipper, K.R., Kustas, W.P., Torres, A., Schull, M. (2020), Sharpening ECOSTRESS and VIIRS land surface temperature using harmonized Landsat-Sentinel surface reflectances. *Remote Sensing of Environment.* 251. Article 112055. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2020.112055. **Yang, Y.**, Anderson, M.C., Gao, F.N., Hain, C., Noormets, A., Sun, G., Wynne, R., Thomas, V. (2020), Investigating impacts of drought and disturbance on evapotranspiration over a forested landscape in North Carolina, USA using high spatiotemporal resolution remotely sensed data. *Remote Sensing of Environment.*doi:10.1016/j.rse.2018.12.017. Knipper, K.R., Kustas, W.P., Anderson, M.C., Alfieri, J.G., Prueger, J.H., Hain, C., Gao, F.N., **Yang, Y.**, McKee, L.G., Nieto, H., Hipps, L., Aisha, M., Sanchez, L. (2018), Evapotranspiration estimates derived using thermal-based satellite remote sensing and data fusion for irrigation management in California vineyards. *Irrigation Science.* doi:10.1007/s00271-018-0591-y. Anderson, M.C., Gao, F.N., Knipper, K.R., Hain, C., Dulaney, W.P., Baldocchi, D., Eichelmann, E., Hemes, K., **Yang, Y.**, Medellin, A., Kustas, W.P. (2018), Field-scale assessment of land and water use change over the California Delta using remote sensing. *Remote Sensing.* 10(6):889. doi:10.3390/rs10060889. Castelli, M., Anderson, M.C., **Yang, Y.**, Wohlfart, G., Bertoldi, G., Hammerle, A., Zhao, P., Niedrist, G., Zebisch, M., Notarnicola, C. (2018), Two source energy balance modeling of evapotranspiration in Alpine grasslands. *Remote Sensing of Environment.* 209:327-342. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2018.02.062. Yang, Y., Anderson, M.C., Gao, F.N., Wardlow, B., Hain, C., Otkin, J., Alfieri, J.G., **Yang, Y.**, Sun, L., Dulaney, W.P. (2018), Field-scale mapping of evaporative stress indicators of crop yield: an application over Mead, Nebraska. *Remote Sensing of Environment.* 210:387-402. Wang, Z., C. Schaaf., Q. Sun, J. Kim, A. Erb, F. Gao, M. Román, **Yang,** S. Petroy, J. Taylor, and J. Masek (2017), Monitoring land surface albedo and vegetation dynamics using high spatial and temporal resolution synthetic time series from Landsat and the MODIS BRDF/NBAR/albedo product, *Int. J. Appl. Earth Obs. Geoinf.*, *59*, 104–117, doi:10.1016/j.jag.2017.03.008. **Yang, Y.**, M. Anderson, F. Gao, C. Hain, W. Kustas, T. Meyers, W. Crow, R. Finocchiaro, J. Otkin, and L. Sun (2017), Impact of Tile Drainage on Evapotranspiration in South Dakota, USA, Based on High Spatiotemporal Resolution Evapotranspiration Time Series From a Multisatellite Data Fusion System, *IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Obs. Remote Sens.*, *10*(6), 2550–2564, doi:10.1109/JSTARS.2017.2680411. **Yang, Y.**, C. Anderson, F. Gao, C. R. Hain, K. A. Semmens, W. P. Kustas, A. Noormets, R. H. Wynne, V. A. Thomas, and G. Sun (2017), Daily Landsat-scale evapotranspiration estimation over a forested landscape in North Carolina, USA using multi-satellite data fusion, *Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci.*, *21*, 1017–1037, doi:doi:10.5194/hess-21-1017-2017. Sun, L., M. C. Anderson, F. Gao, C. Hain, J. G. Alfieri, A. Sharifi, G. W. McCarty, **Yang**, Y. Yang, and W. P. Kustas (2017), Investigating water use over the Choptank River Watershed using a multisatellite data fusion approach, *Water Resour. Res.*, doi:10.1002/2017WR020700. Sun, L., Z. Chen, F. Gao, M. Anderson, L. Song, L. Wang, B. Hu, and **Yang** (2017), Reconstructing daily clear-sky land surface temperature for cloudy regions from MODIS data, Comput*. Geosci.*, 105, 10–20, doi:10.1016/j.cageo.2017.04.007. Semmens, K. A., M. C. Anderson, W. P. Kustas, F. Gao, J. G. Alfieri, L. McKee, J. H. Prueger, C. R. Hain, C. Cammalleri, **Yang** and T. Xia (2016), Monitoring daily evapotranspiration over two California vineyards using Landsat 8 in a multi-sensor data fusion approach, *Remote Sens. Environ.*, *185*, 155–170. Wang, Z., A. M. Erb, C. B. Schaaf, Q. Sun, Y. Liu, **Yang**, Y. Shuai, K. A. Casey, and M. O. Román (2016), Early spring post-fire snow albedo dynamics in high latitude boreal forests using Landsat-8 OLI data, *Remote Sens. Environ.,185* Gao, F., T. Hilker, X. Zhu, M. Anderson, J. Masek, P. Wang, and **Yang** (2015), Fusing Landsat and MODIS data for vegetation monitoring, *IEEE Geosci. Remote Sens. Mag.*, *3*(3), 47–60. Tenenbaum, D. E., **Yang**, and W. Zhou (2011), A comparison of object-oriented image classification and transect sampling methods for obtaining land cover information from digital orthophotography, *GIScience Remote Sens.*, *48*(1), 112–129. Wang, J., W. Ding, B. Fradkin, C. H. Pham, P. Sherman, B. D. Tran, D. Wang, **Yang**, and T. F. Stepinski (2010), Effective classification for crater detection: A case study on Mars, in *Cognitive*Informatics*(ICCI), 2010 9th IEEE International Conference on*, pp. 688–695, IEEE.  ****


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