Daryl (Dedi) Yang

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Environmental and Climate Sciences Department
Bldg. 490A, Room 11-133
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000

(631) 344-3361
dediyang@bnl.gov

Research | Education | Publications

Research Activities

2017-Present:  Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY & Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY.

Education

Stony Brook University, New York, USA; PhD candidate in Ecology and Evolution, 2017-Present

Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China; Master of Science in Global Environmental Change, 2014-2017

Central South University, Changsha, China; Bachelor of Science in Surveying and Mapping Engineering, 2010-2014

Selected Publications

• Yang D, Morrison BD, Hanston W, et al (2023) Integrating very-high-resolution UAS data and airborne imaging spectroscopy to map the fractional composition of Arctic plant functional types in Western Alaska. Remote Sensing of Environment 286:113430. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2022.113430
• Wang J, Song G, Liddell M, et al (2023) An ecologically-constrained deep learning model for tropical leaf phenology monitoring using PlanetScope satellites. Remote Sensing of Environment 286:113429. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2022.113429
• Yang D, Morrison BD, Davidson KJ, et al (2022) Remote sensing from unoccupied aerial systems: Opportunities to enhance Arctic plant ecology in a changing climate. Journal of Ecology 110:2812–2835. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13976
• Thoman RL, Druckenmiller ML, Moon TA, et al (2022) The Arctic. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 103:S257–S306. https://doi.org/10.1175/bams-d-22-0082.1
• Nelson PR, Maguire AJ, Pierrat Z, et al (2022) Remote Sensing of Tundra Ecosystems Using High Spectral Resolution Reflectance: Opportunities and Challenges. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 127:. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021jg006697
• Frost GV (2021) NOAA Arctic Report Card 2021: Tundra Greenness. United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research Global Ocean Monitoring and Observing (GOMO) Program. https://doi.org/10.25923/8N78-WP73
• Yang D, Morrison BD, Hantson W, Breen AL, McMahon A, Li Q, Salmon VG, Hayes DJ, Serbin SP (2021) Landscape-scale characterization of Arctic tundra vegetation composition, structure, and function with a multi-sensor unoccupied aerial system. Environmental Research Letters 16:085005. doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac1291
• Liu X, Guo L, Cui X, Butnor JR, Boyer EW, Yang D, Chen J, Fan B (2021) An Automatic Processing Framework for In Situ Determination of Ecohydrological Root Water Content by Ground-Penetrating Radar. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 1–15. doi: 10.1109/tgrs.2021.3065066
• Burnett AC, Serbin SP, Lamour J, Anderson J, Davidson KJ, Yang D, Rogers A (2021) Seasonal trends in photosynthesis and leaf traits in scarlet oak. Tree Physiology 41:1413–1424. doi: 10.1093/treephys/tpab015
• Wang J, Yang D, Chen S, Zhu X, Wu S, Bogonovich M, Guo Z, Zhu Z, Wu J (2021) Automatic cloud and cloud shadow detection in tropical areas for PlanetScope satellite images. Remote Sensing of Environment 264:112604. doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2021.112604
• Burnett AC, Anderson J, Davidson KJ, Ely KS, Lamour J, Li Q, Morrison BD, Yang D, Rogers A, Serbin SP (2021) A best-practice guide to predicting plant traits from leaf-level hyperspectral data using partial least squares regression. Journal of Experimental Botany. doi: 10.1093/jxb/erab295
• Ely KS, Rogers A, Agarwal DA, Ainsworth EA, Albert LP, et al. (2021) A reporting format for leaf-level gas exchange data and metadata. Ecological Informatics 61:101232. doi: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2021.101232
• Wang J, Yang D, Detto M, Nelson BW, Chen M, Guan K, Wu S, Yan Z, Wu J (2020) Multi-scale integration of satellite remote sensing improves characterization of dry-season green-up in an Amazon tropical evergreen forest. Remote Sensing of Environment 246:111865. doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2020.111865
• Yang D, Meng R, Morrison BD, McMahon A, Hantson W, Hayes DJ, Breen AL, Salmon VG, Serbin SP (2020) A Multi-Sensor Unoccupied Aerial System Improves Characterization of Vegetation Composition and Canopy Properties in the Arctic Tundra. Remote Sensing 12:2638. doi: 10.3390/rs12162638
• Liu X, Cui X, Guo L, Chen J, Li W, Yang D, Cao X, Chen X, Liu Q, Lin H (2019) Non-invasive estimation of root zone soil moisture from coarse root reflections in ground-penetrating radar images. Plant and Soil 436:623–639. doi: 10.1007/s11104-018-03919-5
• Yang D, Chen X, Chen J, Cao X (2017) Multiscale Integration Approach for Land Cover Classification Based on Minimal Entropy of Posterior Probability. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 10:1105–1116. doi: 10.1109/jstars.2016.2615073
• Yang D, Chen J, Zhou Y, Chen X, Chen X, Cao X (2017) Mapping plastic greenhouse with medium spatial resolution satellite data: Development of a new spectral index. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 128:47–60. doi: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2017.03.002
• Yang D, Sun S, Chen J, Liu X (2016) Analysis for the spatial and temporal patterns of plasticulture in Shandong province, China with remotely sensed data. 2016 Fifth International Conference on Agro-Geoinformatics (Agro-Geoinformatics). doi: 10.1109/agro-geoinformatics.2016.7577663