Le Yang

Visiting Scholar
University of Southern California
Department of Electrical Engineering—Electrophysics

Research Interests
  • Radiation transfer modeling in vegetation canopies
  • Synergy optical and microwave remote sensing data to improve forest parameters retrieval.
Education
  • Ph.D., Model Recognition and Intelligent System, 2009.
    Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, P.R. China
    Thesis Advisor: Delu Pan & Mingsen Lin
    Thesis Title: Satellite radar altimeter retrieval algorithms over coastal sea and under high sea state events
  • B.S., Applied Physics, 2004.
    Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, P.R. China
Work Experience
  • May 2015 to now, Visiting Scholar, University of Southern California
  • July 2009 to now, Assistant Researcher, State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, RADI (Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth), CAS (China Academy of Science). 
Publications

Journal Publications

  • Le Yang; Liu, Q.; Zhao, J.; Bao, L., "Global Land Surface Backscatter at Ku-Band Using Merged Jason1, Envisat, and Jason2 Data Sets," Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions on , 2015, 53 (2): 784 – 794.
  • Le Yang, Mingsen Lin, Qinhuo Liu, and Delu Pan. A Coastal altimetry retracking strategy based on waveform classification and sub-waveform extraction, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 2012. 33(24): p. 7806-7819.
  • Le Yang, Mingsen Lin, Juhong Zou, and Delu Pan. Improving the wind and wave estimation of dual-frequency altimeter JASON1 in Typhoon Shanshan considering the rain effects, Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2008, 27(5): 1-14. 

Conference Proceedings

  • Qian. Liu, Le Yang, Qinhuo Liu, Jing Lia,Estimation of aboveground woody biomass using HJ-1 and Radarsat-2 data for deciduous forests in Daxing’anling, China, SPIE 2014 Asia Pacific remote sensing.
  • Le Yang, Qinhuo Liu. Analysis of microwave backscatter measured by radar altimeter on land to study surface aerodynamic roughness, SPIE 2012 Asia Pacific remote sensing.
  • Hejuan Du, Le Yang, Qinhuo Liu. Joint Simulation of Bidirectional Reflectance and Backscatter Coefficient of Corn Canopy Scene. IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2011:1918-1921
  • Le Yang, H. Du, Jing Zhao, and Qinhuo Liu. Global vegetation dynamic monitoring using multiple satellite observations, 2002-2007, IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2011 
  • Le Yang, and Qinhuo Liu. Comparison of Envisat RA2 backscatter results over global land surface, IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) , 2011 
  • Le Yang, Hejuan Du, Hongzhang Ma, Qinhuo Liu, Use of the merged dual-frequency radar altimeter backscatter data over china land surface, IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) , 2010 
  • Le Yang, Mingsen Lin, Qinhuo Liu, and Delu Pan, Retracking strategy based on waveform classification and sub-waveform extraction for coastal altimetry along china coastal seas, IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2010 
  • Le Yang, Juhong Zou, Mingsen Lin, and Delu Pan. Method to correct both foam and rain effects on dual frequency altimeter Jason1 wind measurements in typhoon Shanshan. Proc. SPIE, v7105, 2008. 
  • Le Yang, Mingsen Lin, and Delu Pan. Retracking Jason1 altimeter waveform over China coastal zone. Proc. SPIE, v7154, 2008.

Book Chapters

  • Le Yang, Lin M, Zhang Y, et al. Evaluation of retracking algorithms over China and adjacent coastal seas. Coastal Altimetry, Vignudelli S, Kostianoy A, Cipollini P, et al, Springer, 2010. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-12796-0_17