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Contact Information:
Professor Qihao Weng
Director of CUEC
Phone: 812-237-2255
Fax: 812-237-8029
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cuec@indstate.edu


Publications

Recent Books

Weng, Q. and Dale A. Quattrochi. 2006. Urban Remote Sensing, CRC Press/Taylor and Francis, p. 448. (ISBN: 0849391997)

Weng, Q. 2007. Remote Sensing of Impervious Surfaces, CRC Press/Taylor and Francis, to be published in October. ISBN: 1420043749.


Recent Peer Reviewed Publications

Weng, Q. 2009 (expected). Landscape as a Continuum: An Examination of the Urban Landscape Structures and Dynamics of Indianapolis City, 1991-2000, by Using Satellite Images. Submitted to International Journal of Remote Sensing. Accepted on Mar. 31, 2008.

Weng, Q., Liu, H., Liang, B. and D. Lu. 2008 (expected). The spatial variations of urban land surface temperatures: pertinent factors, zoning effect, and seasonal variability. Submitted to IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (JSTARS). Accepted on Dec. 17, 2007 .

Rajasekar, U. and Weng, Q. 2009 (expected) . Application of association rule mining for e xploring the relationship between urban land surface temperature and biophysical/social parameters. Submitted to Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing. Accepted on Dec. 11, 2007 .

Liu, H. and Q. Weng. 2009 (expected) . Scaling-up effect on the relationship between landscape pattern and land surface temperature. Submitted to Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing. Accepted on Nov. 14, 2007.

Weng, Q., Hu , X., and H. Liu . 2009 (expected) . Estimating impervious surfaces using linear spectral mixture analysis with multi-temporal ASTER images. Submitted to International Journal of Remote Sensing. Accepted on Oct. 5, 2007.

Liang, B. and Weng, Q . 2008 (expected) . A multi-scale analysis of census-based land surface temperature variations and determinants in Indianapolis, United States. Submitted to Journal of Urban Planning and Development. Accepted September 20, 200 7.

Liu, H. and Q. Weng. 2008 (expected) . Seasonal variations in the relationship between landscape pattern and land surface temperature in Indianapolis, U.S.A. Submitted to Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. Accepted August 31, 2007.

Weng, Q. and Lu, D. 200 8 (expected). Sub-pixel analysis of urbanization effects on the interactions between land surface temperature and vegetation cover in Indianapolis, U.S.A. Submitted to International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. Accepted May 24 , 2007.

Weng, Q., Hu , X. and D. Lu. 2008 (expected). Extracting impervious surface from medium spatial resolution multispectral and hyperspectral imagery: a comparison. Submitted to International Journal of Remote Sensing on August 7, 2006. Accepted May 12, 2007.

Weng, Q., Hu, X., and H. Liu. 2008/9 (expected). Estimating impervious surfaces using linear spectral mixture analysis with multi-temporal ASTER images. Submitted to International Journal of Remote Sensing. Accepted on Oct. 5, 2007.

Liang, B. and Weng, Q. 2008 (expected). A multi-scale analysis of census-based land surface temperature variations and determinants in Indianapolis, United States. Journal of Urban Planning and Development. Accepted September 20, 2007.

Weng, Q. and D. Lu. 2008/9. A sub-pixel analysis of urbanization effect on land surface temperature and its interplay with impervious surface and vegetation coverage in Indianapolis, United States. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. Accepted.

Weng, Q., Hu, X. and D. Lu. 2008/9. Extracting impervious surface from medium spatial resolution multispectral and hyperspectral imagery: a comparison. International Journal of Remote Sensing. Accepted.

Xiao, R., Weng, Q., Ouyang, Z., Li, W., Schienke, E.W. and Z. Zhang. 2008 (expected). Land surface temperature variation and major factors in Beijing, China. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing. Accepted.

Weng, Q., Liu, H. and D. Lu. 2007. Assessing the effects of land use and land cover patterns on thermal conditions using landscape metrics in city of Indianapolis, United States. Urban Ecosystems. 10(2): 1083-8155 (Print) 1573-1642 (Online).

Melesse, A., Weng, Q., Thenkabail, P., and Senay, G. 2007. Remote sensing sensors and applications in environmental resources mapping and modeling. Sensors, 7 :  3209-3241.

Weng, Q. 2007. A historical perspective of river basin management in the Pearl River Delta of China. Journal of Environmental Management , 85(4): 1048-1062.

Xiao, H. and Weng, Q. 2007. The impact of land use and land cover changes on land surface temperature in a Karst area of China. Journal of Environmental Management , 85: 245-257.

Fan, F., Weng, Q. and Y. Wang. 2007. Land use and land cover change in Guangzhou, China, from 1998 to 2003, based on Landsat TM /ETM+ imagery . Sensors, 7: 1323-1342.

Li, G. and Weng, Q. 2007. Measuring the quality of life in city of Indianapolis by integration of remote sensing and census data. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 28(2): 249-267.

Lu, D. and Weng, Q. 2007. A survey of image classification methods and techniques for improving classification performance. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 28(5): 823-870.

Lu, D. and Weng, Q. 2006. Spectral mixture analysis of ASTER imagery for examining the relationship between thermal features and biophysical descriptors in Indianapolis, Indiana. Remote Sensing of Environment, 104(2): 157-167.

Weng, Q., Lu, D. and B. Liang. 2006. Urban surface biophysical descriptors and land surface temperature variations. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, 72(11): 1275-1286.

Lu, D., Weng, Q. and G. Li. 2006. Residential population estimation using remote sensing derived impervious surface. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 27(16): 3553-3570.

Weng, Q. and S. Yang. 2006. Urban air pollution patterns, land use, and thermal landscape: an examination of the linkage using GIS. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 117(1-3): 463-489.

Weng, Q. 2006. An evaluation of spatial interpolation accuracy of elevation data, In Riedl, A., Kainz, W. and G.A. Elmes (eds.): Progress in Spatial Data Handling. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 805-824.

Lu, D. and Weng, Q. 2006. Use of impervious surface in urban land use classification. Remote Sensing of Environment, 102(1-2): 146-160.

Lu, D. and Weng, Q. 2005. Urban Land-Use and Land-Cover Mapping Using the Full Spectral Information of Landsat ETM+ Data in Indianapolis, Indiana. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, 71(11): 1275-1284.

Li, G. and Weng, Q. 2005. Using Landsat ETM+ Imagery to Measure Population Density in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, 71(8): 947-958.

Weng, Q., Lu, D. and J. Schubring. 2004. Estimation of Land Surface Temperature-Vegetation Abundance Relationship for Urban Heat Island Studies. Remote Sensing of Environment, 89(4): 467-483.  

Weng, Q. and S. Yang. 2004. Managing the Adverse Thermal Effects of Urban Development in a Densely Populated Chinese City. Journal of Environmental Management, 70(2): 145-156.

Lu, D. and Q. Weng. 2004. Spectral Mixture Analysis of the Urban Landscape in Indianapolis with Landsat ETM+ Imagery. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, 70(9): 1053-1062.

Weng, Q. and Yang, S. 2003. An Approach to Evaluation of Sustainability for Guangzhou’s Urban Ecosystem. International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology, 10(1): 69-81.  

Weng, Q. 2003. Fractal Analysis of Satellite-Detected Urban Heat Island Effect. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, 69(5): 555-566.  

Weng, Q., Qiao, L., Yang, S., and H. Guo. 2003. Guangzhou’s Growth and Urban Planning, 1960-1997: an Analysis through Remote Sensing. Asian Geographer, 22(1-2): 77-92.  

Weng, Q. 2002. Quantifying uncertainty of digital elevation models derived from topographic maps. In: Advances in Spatial Data Handling, edited by D. Richardson and P. van Oosterom, Springer-Verlag, New York, pp.403-418.

Weng, Q. 2002. Land use change analysis in the Zhujiang Delta of China using satellite remote sensing, GIS, and stochastic modeling. Journal of Environmental Management, 64: 273-284.

Weng, Q. 2001. A remote sensing-GIS evaluation of urban expansion and its impact on surface temperature in the Zhujiang Delta, China. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 22(10): 1999-2014.

Weng, Q. and C. P. Lo. 2001. Spatial Analysis of Urban Growth Impacts on Vegetative Greenness with Landsat TM Data. Geocarto International, 16(4): 17-25.

Weng, Q. 2001. Modeling urban growth effect on surface runoff with the integration of remote sensing and GIS. Environmental Management, 28(6): 737-748.

Weng, Q. 2001. Human-environment interactions in agricultural land use in a South China’s wetland region: a study on the Zhujiang Delta in the Holocene. GeoJournal, 51(3): 191-202.

Weng, Q. 1998. Local impacts of the post-Mao development strategy: the case of the Zhujiang Delta. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 22(3): 425-442.