🎨Vincent Van Gogh: I often think that the night is even more alive and richly colored than the day
🗺️Qiming: So do I
I am looking for 1 PhD Student, 1 Postdoc and 1 Visiting PhD student working on one of the following topics: Nighttime light remote sensing, Urban sustainability, and Nature-based Climate Solutions. Details.
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My research interests center on the urban-climate-environment nexus. I use remote sensing, GIS and geospatial techniques, environment and climate models, and AI/machine learning approaches to understand global urbanization and its environmental and climatic consequences, and to develop effective mitigation and adaption solutions. My research focus has always been on pushing the envelope on technical bottlenecks, bridging the gap between technical innovation and cutting edge environmental issues, and delivering policy-relevant information for decision-making. My current research focuses on the following themes:
- Remote sensing of urban environment
- Global environmental and climate change
- Land-based climate change mitigation
- Remote sensing image processing techniques and applications
- Nighttime light remote sensing
📰News
- 20/04/2024: My publications exceeded 1,000 Google Scholar citations!
- 04/04/2024: I will officially join the Dept. of Geography and Resource Management at Chinese University of Hong Kong as a full-time Assistant Professor (tenure-track) in the coming July.
- 18/03/2024: Our review paper “Nighttime light remote sensing for urban applications: progress, challenges, and prospects” is ESI highly cited! [Download (OA)].
- 27/01/2024: Our work “Geo-STO3Net: A deep neural network integrating geographical spatiotemporal information for surface ozone estimation” was accepted by IEEE TGRS ! [Download].
- 08/01/2024: I joined the Dept. of Geography and Resource Management at Chinese University of Hong Kong as a Part-time Lecturer.
- 20/12/2023: The work that I supervised,”Estimating building heights in complex urban areas”, has been published in International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation![Download(OA)]
- 13/12/2023: My co-authored paper on “Uncertainties in deforestation emission baseline methodologies” has been published in Nature Communications! [Download (OA)]
- 29/09/2023: We posted an eLetter commentary on light pollution measurements in Science. [View eLetter].
- 21/09/2023: Our manuscript about global abandoned cropland was published in Nature Communications.[Download (OA)].[Media:Eurekalert AAAS;Earth.com; see More].
- 08/08/2023: Our proposed research on building height estimation was selected for Alibaba DAMO Academy AI Earth Joint Research & Innovation Programme.
- 17/06/2023: I gave a talk on “Impact of temporal compositing on nighttime light data and its applications” at Quantitative RS Forum 2023, Chengdu, China. [Photo@Twitter].
- 29/05/2023: Our review paper “Nighttime light remote sensing for urban applications: progress, challenges, and prospects” was published in ISPRS P&RS Journal [Download (OA)].
- 22/05/2023: I was invited by Northestern University, Shenyang, China, to give a talk on “Nighttime light remote sensing” as part of its centennial celebration events.
- 25/04/2023: Our paper about the new high-resolution NTL image data - SDGSAT-1 has been published in International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation [Download (OA)].
✉️Contact Info.
Qiming Zheng, Ph.D.
Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Block Z, Office ZN613
Phase 8, 181 Chatham Road South
Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR
Email: Qiming.Zheng@outlook.com
Updated 15/03/2024