Fei Yang

• PhD
• Professor (Associate) at Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Wind speed prediction is crucial for precisely wind power forecasting and reduced maintenance costs. Highland regions, which possess a considerable wind potential, present complex meteorological conditions, making wind speed prediction challenging. Traditional weather forecasting relies on complex statistical methods and extensive prior knowledge....

Street view images are emerging as new street-level sources of urban environmental information. Accurate detection and quantification of urban air conditioners is crucial for evaluating the resilience of urban residential areas to heat wave disasters and formulating effective disaster prevention policies. Utilizing street view image data to predict...

Climate change influence on the economy and environment in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei (BTH) region. This study examined the variations of extreme high temperature days (EHDs) over the BTH region in summer during 1982 to 2021. The trend and frequency of EHDs has increased significantly during the last 40 years. The spatial and temporal variations of...

Most of the previous studies exploring the changing patterns of wetland in the Yellow River Delta (YRD) were conducted based on sparse time-series images, which ignored its severe environmental gradient and rapid evolution process of the wetland. The changes in the dominant factors in the evolution of the wetland in the YRD are not clear. This stud...

The Mongolian Plateau is in the interior of Northeast Asia, and is extremely vulnerable to climate change and the deleterious effects of human activities. Mongolia is an important component unit of the Mongolian Plateau, and its resources, environment and ecological problems are closely related to the ecological barrier and resource security in nor...

Significant differences exist in the dominant driving factors of rocky desertification evolution in varying temporal periods of mountainous karst areas in southwest China. However, previous studies were primarily conducted in specific periods. In this study, taking Bijie city (one of the areas most seriously affected by rocky desertification in sou...

In this work, a captivating S-scheme CuBi2O4/CoV2O6 heterojunction was innovatively constructed by in situ growing CoV2O6 nanoparticles on the surface of CuBi2O4 microrods. Of note, the unique CuBi2O4 microrods served as an outstanding substrate to achieve the uniform loading of CoV2O6 nanoparticles. Compared with neat CoV2O6 and CuBi2O4, as expect...

Few studies of monitoring rocky desertification based on Sentinel-2 MSI image with higher spatial and temporal resolutions have been reported. In this paper, nine typical surface parameters that derived from Sentinel-2 MSI image including three red edge indices have been introduced to establish two types of feature space monitoring index: point-to-...

This paper constructs a model to accurately estimate the urban CO2 emissions in 2000, 2005, and 2013 in China, using the combined data of DMSP/OLS nighttime light data and the provincial energy statistical yearbook data. We calculate and analyze the growth of urban built-up areas and carbon emissions in different time periods both all over the coun...

There are significant differences in the dominant driving factors of rocky desertification evolution in different historical periods in southwest karst mountainous areas. However, previous studies were mostly conducted in specific periods. In this study, taking Bijie City as an example, the spatial and temporal evolution pattern of rocky desertific...

Most of previous studies utilized the surface parameters from LANDSAT images to construct the feature space monitoring index model of salinisation (salinization), and a few studies that have combined the feature space model with SENTINEL‐2B MSI images have been reported. In addition, the red edge index derived from SENTINEL‐2B MSI images can provid...

Critical transitions in ecosystems may imply risks of unexpected collapse under climate changes, especially vegetation often responds sensitively to climate change. The type of vegetation ecosystem states could present alternative stable states, and its type could signal the critical transitions at tipping points because of changed climate or other...

In order to obtain detailed city-level carbon emission data, this paper constructed a model to estimate the urban CO 2 emissions in 2000, 2005 and 2013, using the combined data of DMSP/OLS nighttime light data and the provincial energy statistical yearbook data. It is found that there is a clearly linear correlation between the city nighttime light...

There were dramatic changes in the ecological vulnerability (EV) of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) region due to the effects of climate change and human activity. Obtaining field observation and statistical data for the evaluation of the EV of the CPEC region is difficult due to its transnational status. This study proposes a novel rem...

The important effect of climate factors on spring phenology has been confirmed by numerous studies, but its temporal variation remains unclear. Based on the daily meteorological observation data and annual vegetation phenology data from 1987 to 2016, this study proposes a Time Window Sliding Fitting (TWSF) method. Partial Least Squares (PLS) regres...

Heat waves may negatively impact the economy and human life under global warming. The use of air conditioners can reduce the vulnerability of humans to heat wave disasters. However, air conditioner usage has been not clear until now. Traditional registration investigation methods are cumbersome and require expensive labor and time. This study used...

Previous studies monitoring the spatial distribution of rocky desertification have used single indices, a comprehensive index, or image classification. However, these approaches could not distinguish between the degrees of rocky desertification as they did not consider various influencing factors and their interactions. To avoid the above shortcomi...

What the dominant influencing factors are and how changes have occurred over different historical periods in Yellow River Basin are unclear. This study aims to retrieve the annual soil erosion modulus of the Yellow River Basin and utilizes the LMDI model and Geodetector model to identify the dominant driving factors of soil erosion evolution in dif...

The spatial interpolation of meteorological data have important applications in ecological environment monitoring, such as soil erosion, ecological vulnerability evaluation. However, there are significant differences in the interpolation accuracy of climatic elements under different topographic and geomorphic conditions. Based on data of 810 meteor...

Drought features prominently among natural disasters in Chinese history. Analysing the laws that govern the spatial and temporal evolution of drought could support decision-making for drought prevention and control. However, few studies have investigated the long-term evolution rules of drought events on different spatial and temporal scales. In th...

This study optimized the slope and slope length factor (LS) and crop management factor (P) of the RUSLE model and then introduced the gravity centre model to analyze the spatial–temporal variation patterns of soil erosion in Yellow River Basin from a new perspective. Results showed that: (1) The improved model of RUSLE with optimized factors of LS...

Reflecting on the change in the global biodiversity pattern, the Tibetan Plateau, considered to be a “natural laboratory” for analyzing environmental change in China and around the world, has suffered profound changes in the vegetation ecosystem. This study introduces the gravity center model and geographical detectors to examine and discuss the sp...

Based on the first-hand data of field investigation, existing literature, books and plant specimens database resources, the complete and available spatial database of wild Akebia trifoliate in China was established firstly. After analyzing the geographical distribution of Akebia trifoliate and its ecological factors, such as climate, soil and topog...

Heat waves seriously affect the productivity and daily life of human beings. Therefore, they bring great risks and uncertainties for the further development of countries in the One Belt and One Road (OBOR) region. In this study, we used daily meteorological monitoring data to calculate the daily apparent temperature and annual heat wave dataset for...

Surface ice/snow is a vital resource and is sensitive to climate change in many parts of the world. The accurate and timely measurement of the spatial distribution of ice/snow is critical for managing water resources. Object-oriented and pixel-oriented methods often have some limitations due to the image segmentation scale, the determination of the...

Earthquakes have caused tremendous damage in China and around the world; the Wenchuan earthquake that occurred in China 10 years ago is among the deadliest earthquakes in history. The importance of earthquake monitoring and seismic data analysis is now recognized in China. However, the effective dissemination of earthquake-related disaster risk red...

The Yellow River Delta, with the most typical new wetland system in warm temperate zone of China, is suffering from increasingly serious salinization. The purpose of this study is to utilize five typical surface parameters, including Albedo (the surface Albedo), NDVI (vegetation index), SI (salinity index),WI (humidity index), and IFe2O3 (Iron oxid...

There seems to be a gap between the public and complex climate prediction models that reduces public awareness of and participation in climate change research. Therefore, it is necessary to describe the trends of future climate change with more concise conclusions. Climatic analogs are an effective method used to measure the similarity between two...

Naiman Banner is one of the most typical semi‐arid vulnerable ecological zones that is characterized by vegetation degradation and severe desertification. Previous studies mostly utilized a single feature space or only the linear correlation model to monitor desertification. In this study, the optimal monitoring model that fully considers the multi...

The vegetation ecosystem of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in China, considered to be the “natural laboratory” of climate change in the world, has undergone profound changes under the stress of global change. Herein, we analyzed and discussed the spatial-temporal change patterns and the driving mechanisms of net primary productivity (NPP) in the Qinghai...

The rainfall erosivity in China have shown different change characteristics and patterns at different spatial–temporal scales. In this article, we introduced a gravity centre model for use in studying and analyzing the spatial–temporal distribution patterns of rainfall erosivity in China in the past 58 years combined with traditional geostatistical...

The rapid development of cities has led to the urban sprawl to the suburbs. Studies have shown that urban sprawl leads to the increasing intensity of heat island effect. This paper, based on the DMSP/OLS nighttime light data and the MODIS land surface temperature data during the years 2000, 2005, and 2013, discussed the spatial and temporal charact...

The interference of soil salt content, vegetation, and other factors greatly constrain soil salinization monitoring via remote sensing techniques. However, traditional monitoring methods often ignore the vegetation information. In this study, the vegetation indices–salinity indices (VI–SI) feature space was utilized to improve the inversion accurac...

Traditional monitoring methods often ignore the vegetation information, which has significantly indirect influence on the process of soil salinization. In this study, the vegetation indices-salinity indices (VI-SI) feature space was utilized to improve the inversion accuracy of soil salinity, while considering the bare soil and vegetation informati...

The accurate assessment of forest damage is important basis for the forest post-disaster recovery process and ecosystem management. This study evaluates the spatial distribution of damaged forest and its damaged severity caused by ice-snow disaster that occurred in southern China during January 10 to February 2 in 2008. The moderate-resolution imag...

The various patterns of spatial heterogeneity in the eco-environment of the Silk Road Economic Belt of China differ greatly. In this study, a partition–integration concept was introduced to assess the ecological vulnerability of the Silk Road Economic Belt in China. To confirm the comparability of ecological vulnerability among different sub-region...

Considering the surface eco-environmental landscape of the Yellow River Delta, two different models based on Modified Soil-Adjusted Vegetation Index–Salinized Index (MSAVI–SI) feature spaces have been proposed, and then, comparisons and analyses among the above two models have been conducted to find and recommend the optimal monitoring model of soi...

A plasmonic photocatalyst is designed and synthesized by coating TiO2 nanoparticles onto the surface of Ag nanorods (Ag NRs), namely one-dimensional TiO2@Ag NRs photocatalyst. Materials characterizations suggest that the as-prepared catalysts consist of a uniform and high crystalline anatase nanocrystals and highly conductive Ag nanorod. It deliver...

The concept of vulnerability put forward in the 1960s and the potential vulnerability of the 21st century has gradually developed into an independent new science. Vulnerability research has become the basis for assessing states of development and the criteria for measuring future development plans. This study used previous reports on vulnerability...

Water resources are essential for the land surface system and human life and activity. However, gridded water resource data that can reflect subtle differences of spatial distribution within water basins are scarce. This article has introduced six factors: precipitation, aridity, evapotranspiration, slope, vegetation, and catchment area, to develop...

Abstract: 【Objective】The study of resilience evaluation provides a basic theoretical framework for the response of extreme natural ecosystems to extreme climate disturbance. Forest ecosystem management based on the resilience method has become an important coping approach. 【Method】 With Dao County of Hunan Province as the study area, based on the d...

Abstract: Exploring the relation between regime shift and resilience of subtropical forest in ice － snow frozen disaster，it is beneficial to accurately predict the scope of forest disaster，it can provide more exact forecast about damaged forest range and scientific support for protection of forest. The merging date (all band) from Landsat 5 for ext...

As a special ecosystem in western Songnen Plain, Northeast China, Phragmites australis saline-alkaline marsh degrade to saline meadow or even alkaline spots progressively, due to the interruption of the water supply. It was the basis to restore the saline-alkaline marsh successfully, that understanding the responses of P. australis to flooding in d...

The hydrological regime is the dominant factor associated with the degradation and restoration of inland salt marshes in Northeast China. This study investigates whether alternate flooding–drought conditions could be used to actively restore degraded inland salt marshes with the native plant Phragmites australis. Pot experiments were designed to ex...

A novel heterojunction by facet coupling of BiOI onto TiO2 nanobelt arrays (NBAs) as a visible light photocatalyst was achieved through a hydrothermal method. The BiOI/TiO2 heterojunction had been investigated by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray photoelectron spectra (XPS), U...

Returning farmland to forests is important for the protection of ecological values. Eucommia ulmoides is considered to be a suitable species for reforestation in the hilly red soil region of southern China. The objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between the water supply and demand of an E. ulmoides plantation to provide ins...

Based on meteorological data from China national weather stations and climate scenario grid data through regional climate model provided by National Climate Center, rice water requirement was calculated by using McCloud model and Penman-Monteith model combined with crop coefficient approach. Then the rice irrigation water requirement was estimated...

The relationship between the ever-increasing cancer mortality and water pollution is an important public concern in China. This study aimed to explore the association between serious water pollution and increasing digestive cancer mortality in the Huai River Basin (HRB) in China. A series of frequency of serious pollution (FSP) indices including wa...

MnO2/TiO2 nanotube arrays nanocomposite photocatalysts have been synthesized through an electrodeposition method. X-ray powder diffraction analysis and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy measurements reveal that the products of electrodeposition method are MnO2. Scanning electron microscopy measurements suggest that the depositions are deposited on t...

Water eutrophication in Poyang Lake, the largest freshwater lake in China, has been considered to be an obstacle to aquatic environment protection and regional sustainable development. Chlorophyll-a concentration is one of the most important indices of water eutrophication. This paper builds seasonal chlorophyll-a concentration retrieval models usi...

Leaf area index (LAI) is a critical variable for simulating the carbon or nitrogen cycles and water and heat energy balance of ecosystem. MODIS and Geoland2 version 1 (GEOV1) LAI products were validated based on the groundmeasured maize, winter wheat, and grass LAI data in several years. This study also investigated the residential area effect in m...

CdS with well-defined crystallinity is anchored on carbon nitride photoelectrodes by a successive chemical bath deposition. And the as-synthesized samples were characterized by X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, ultraviolet-visible diffuse reflection spectroscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and...

Fraction of Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FPAR) is a critical parameter in land surface energy balance and climate modeling. Several global FPAR products are available, but these still require considerable assessment and validation due to low spatial resolution. Three major FPAR products that have covered China and provided continuous time s...

The fabrication and characterization of heterogeneous structures based on CdS and self-doped TiO2 nanotube arrays (H-TNTs) are reported for the first time. CdS was conformally deposited onto TiO2 nanotube arrays (TNTs) using a simple method of electrochemical atomic layer deposition. The as-prepared samples were characterized by scanning electron m...

Agricultural nonpoint source (NPS) pollution has been the most important threat to water environment quality. Understanding the spatial distribution of NPS pollution potential risk is important for taking effective measures to control and reduce NPS pollution. A Transformed-Agricultural Nonpoint Pollution Potential Index (T-APPI) model was construc...

A NDVI time series curve, proposed from high time resolution remote sensing images, contains rich information for crop yield forecasting. MODIS-NDVI and AVHRR-NDVI are normally used. However, the spatial resolution of MODIS and AVHRR are low. When they used for crop yield forecasting in China, the prediction accuracy will be reduced by a mixed pixe...

Based on the land cover datasets of Poyang Lake region in 1980, 2005, and 2010, and by using GIS, RS, and landscape ecology approaches, this paper studied the land cover and landscape pattern changes in this region from 1980 to 2010, and quantitatively analyzed the land cover types change degree, patch area index, patch shape index, margin density...

In recent decades, China's livestock and poultry industry developed rapidly, and their wastes have become an important pollution source, and made a serious threat to China's environment. Due to the significant differences in natural conditions and economic development level in different provinces or regions, the scale and speed of livestock and pou...

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Transpiration, an essential component of surface evapotranspiration, is particularly important in the research of surface evapotranspiration in arid areas. The paper explores the spectral information of the arid vegetal evapotranspiration from a semi-empirical perspective by the measured data and the up-scaling method. The paper inverted the transp...

The fraction of photosynthetically active radiation (FPAR) is a key variable in the assessment of vegetation productivity and land ecosystem carbon cycles. Based on ground-measured corn hyperspectral reflectance and FPAR data over Northeast China, the correlations between corn-canopy FPAR and hyperspectral reflectance were analyzed, and the FPAR es...

Climate change is one of the most important challenges threatening agricultural grain yield and food security. Determining the factors influencing grain yield in Jilin Province and the weights of their contribution are a very important task, because Jilin Province is an important agriculture base in China. In this study, the accumulation factor seq...

Based on the climatic data from 1951 to 2008 and the crops growth stages record data from 1992 to 2010 in Songnen plain and its surrounding areas，the temporal and spatial variation characteristics of the key climatic factors and main crops growth stages were studied. The results showed that the climate changes in Songnen plain for nearly 60 years w...

The fraction of photosynthetically active radiation (FPAR) absorbed by global vegetation is a key state variable in most ecosystem productivity models and in global models of climate, hydrology, biogeochemistry, and ecology. Therefore, how accurately retrieve FPAR will directly influence the estimation of many models and requires special attention....

The remote sensing based Production Efficiency Models (PEMs), springs from the concept of “Light Use Efficiency” and has been applied more and more in estimating terrestrial Net Primary Productivity (NPP) regionally and globally. However, global NPP estimates vary greatly among different models in different data sources and handling methods. Becaus...

MODIS data become more and more important source for research and production, but the low spatial resolution leads to the data influenced by many factors. Plenty of works have been done for data precision validation, which demonstrated thatmixed pixel of several objectswas the main influencing factor.Equal dispersion of the rural residential area i...

By comparing the MODIS LAI to field measurement and retrieved LAI from the PROSAIL physical model using TM image, accuracy of the MODIS LAI product for corn crops in Jilin Province was assessed, which could provide the basis of evaluating and using MODIS products accurately. The results show that the accuracy of the MODIS LAI product varies largely...

The emergy analysis of the agroecosystems in Jinlin Province indicated that in 1990-2007, there was an increasing trend in the total emergy input, among which, economic system feedback emergy accounted for more than 85%, and the ratio of renewable emergy input to the total emergy was above 80% (labor force emergy input accounted for about 60% ). Th...

Human-induced land use/cover change (LUCC) forms an important component of global environmental change. Therefore, it is important to study land use/cover and its change at local, regional and global scales. In this paper we conducted the study of land use change in Northeast China, one of the most important agricultural zones of the nation. From 1...

The hyperspectral reflectance characteristics of black soil in Heilongjiang province were analyzed quantitatively, and then the main characteristic controlling points of reflectance were determined and used to build soil reflectance prediction models; the relationship between organic matter content and reflectance and the coefficients of simulating...

Leaf area index (LAI) is an important biophysical parameter, and is the critical variable in many ecology models, productivity models and carbon circulation study. Based on the field experiment data, an evaluation of soybean LAI retrieval methods was conducted using NDVI (normalized difference vegetation index) and RVI (ratio vegetation index), pri...

By using the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) extracted from CBERS-02 data and the leaf area index (LAI) data obtained from field measurement, this paper analyzed the relationships between the NDVI and the LAI of total samples of meadow, marsh vegetation, shrubs, and islanded forests of the wetland vegetation in Honghe Nature Reserve o...

Based on the field measured data of corn,this paper established FPAR and LAI estimated models of the vegetation indices(NDVI,RVI,NDWI),which were used to calculate FPAR and LAI with the MODIS BRDF(Bi-directional Reflectance Distribution Function)product of two periods.MODIS 15A2 FPAR/LAI,FPAR/ LAI estimated by the vegetation indices models and BRDF...

FPAR (Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation) is a key parameter in the study on ecosystem function, crop growth monitoring, and so on, it is important to estimate FPAR accurately. Based on the analysis of measured corn hyperspectral and PAR data, the conclusions of this paper are: PCA approach can be used to distill hyperspectral...

基于东北典型黑土区的玉米和大豆的实测光谱反射率、光合有效辐射及叶面积数据,选取常用的9种植被指数,并根据光谱曲线特征和植被指数结构建立了两种新的植被指数,对其估算玉米和大豆冠层FPAR效果进行了对比分析。结果表明,各植被指数与冠层光合有效辐射吸收比例(FPAR)的关系因植被类型而异。以近、短波红外波段较以可见光、近红外波段计算植被指数的估算效果好。NDVI、RVI在可见光、近红外波段计算的植被指数中估算FPAR效果较好,玉米估算模型R2分别为0.81和0.82,大豆估算模型R2均为0.81;NDSI、RSI在近、短波红外波段计算的植被指数中较好,玉米估算模型R2均为0.86,大豆估算模型R2均为0.84,优于NDVI和RVI。试验表明,利用近、短波红外波段估算FPAR是可行的;冠层含水量较土...

Fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation (FPAR) is one of the important variables in many vegetation productivity and biomass estimation models. Therefore, it is significant to retrieve FPAR accurately for the improvement of model precision. On the basis of the field experiment, this article analyzed the correlations between corn ca...

The canopy reflectance and leaf area index (LAI) of Glycine max under different water-fertilizer coupling and management conditions were measured, and the relations of reflectance and derivative reflectance with LAI were analyzed. Ratio Vegetation Index (RVI) and Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) were regressed against LAI, and the wave...

Based on the measurement of photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) parameters in soybean and com canopies as well as the calculation of reflectance and transmittance, the diurnal changes of the parameters and their affecting factors were studied in this paper. The results showed that the fraction of photosynthetically active radiation (FPAR) in...