Wednesday, June 24, 2020
13:00 GMT/UTC
9:00 AM US Eastern Time
Speaker: Qihao Weng, Indiana State University, USA
Sponsored by GRSS
Generating High Temporal Resolution Land Surface Temperature Data for Urban Studies
This lecture examines the state-of-the-art methodologies for generating consistent, high temporal-resolution LST data and explores the use of satellite derived LST data to analyze urbanization processes and surface urban heat islands in selected cities in the North America and Asia, followed by discussion on scientific and technological challenges and future opportunities.
SPEAKER’S BIO:
Dr. Qihao Weng, a Fellow of AAAS, IEEE, and ASPRS, is the Director of the Center for Urban and Environmental Change and a Professor of Geography at the Indiana State University, and had worked as a Senior Fellow at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration from December 2008 to 2009. He received his Ph.D. degree in geography from the University of Georgia in 1999. Weng is currently the Lead of the Group on Earth Observation’s (GEO) Global Urban Observation and Information Initiative, and serves as an Editor-in-Chief of the ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.
