Title：Associate Professor

E-mail：yzhang@ustb.edu.cn

Office：Room 905, Information Building

Education：

2011-2014, Ph.D., Beijing Normal University, China.

2012-2014, visiting student, University of Maryland, College Park, USA.

Work Experience：

2017-present, University of Science and Technology Beijing

Research Interests:

Her main research interests focus on developing inversion algorithms (including machine learning methods) to estimate land surface variables from satellite observations, as well as applying satellite data products to assess the climatic and ecological effects of anthropogenic activities in China.

Courses：

Photoelectric Detection Technology, Software Engineering

Selected Publications：

Zhang, Y., Liang, S., 2018. Impacts of land cover transitions on surface temperature in China based on satellite observations. Environmental Research Letters 13, 024010.

Zhang, Y., Liang, S., 2014. Changes in forest biomass and linkage to climate and forest disturbances over Northeastern China. Global Change Biology 20, 2596-2606.

Zhang, Y., Qu, Y., Wang, J., Liang, S., Liu, Y., 2012. Estimating leaf area index from MODIS and surface meteorological data using a dynamic Bayesian network. Remote Sensing of Environment 127, 30-43.