Associate Professor @UConnNRE, Director of Global Environmental Remote Sensing Laboratory, Associate & Special Issue Editors of RSE & SRS.
Storrs, CT
Joined October 2012
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Zhe Zhu 🌎🛰️ retweeted
How have lakeshores changed over the past two decades? Are they related to water color variations? Nine typical plateau lakes show three transformation patterns, while their links to water color dynamics vary with lake-specific contexts. See our new paper: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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This unique study provides clearer guidelines for understanding how well forests resist and recover from stressors like drought, fire, or human disturbances
today.uconn.edu/2026/08/can-…
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A new framework developed by researchers at UConn and Yale uses high-frequency satellite data to track the vital signs of global cities in near real-time, fundamentally changing how we understand urbanization.
today.uconn.edu/2026/06/scie…
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A new study from researchers in the @GERSLab in the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment found that tidal wetland areas have been shrinking globally and the loss is accelerating in the U.S., driven by extreme weather events.
today.uconn.edu/2026/05/extr…
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Nature research paper: Satellite imagery reveals increasing volatility in human night-time activity
go.nature.com/3NS4KtL
Zhe Zhu 🌎🛰️ retweeted
Can image fusion really improve downstream tasks? Yes! Better fusion yields better applications.
Our #RSE paper introduces RASSFM 2.0, an enhanced MS-to-MS fusion model newly defined as M2Msharpening, that delivers advanced 3-m land cover classification.
authors.elsevier.com/c/1mnuJ…
Zhe Zhu 🌎🛰️ retweeted
Lakeshores support critical ecological and socioeconomic functions. How can we efficiently identify artificial vs. natural lakeshores and assess their utilization at large scales? RoLaSTIM answers, enabling consistent and scalable lakeshore monitoring.
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
Zhe Zhu 🌎🛰️ retweeted
I am thrilled to announce the release of the python package "pyxccd" for latest CCDC algorithm (COLD) and its state-space form (S-CCD), supporting CCDC-like analysis for any band combination and any sensor. @GERSLab
$pip install pyxccd
Tutorial: pyxccd.readthedocs.io/en/lat…
Zhe Zhu 🌎🛰️ retweeted
I'm thrilled to share that my first RSE paper, the Time-series Image Fusion (TIF) algorithm is published online!
🔗 Read the [paper]: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
💻 Explore the [code]: github.com/GERSL/TIF
More on threads..
Zhe Zhu 🌎🛰️ retweeted
Article: Direct human impact on land disturbances in the US is declining, while less controllable undirected wild disturbances are increasing
@Shi60604194 @GERSLab
nature.com/articles/s41561-0…
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A 40-year satellite study led by UConn @GERSLab director Zhe Zhu of the Department of Natural Resources & the Environment reveals disturbances from logging and construction are waning, but events like mega-fires and extreme storms are becoming more common
today.uconn.edu/2025/09/ucon…
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"The #LandsatNext project is currently assessing alternate mission architectures to support more affordable ways to maintain the continuity of #Landsat imagery per the language in the FY26 President’s Budget Request (PBR). Updates will be forthcoming."
landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/satell…
Zhe Zhu 🌎🛰️ retweeted
Kelp forests on the coast of Maine are in decline owing to rapid ocean warming and are being replaced by turf algae, which alter the ecosystem’s chemistry, hindering the recovery of kelp forests.
Learn more in this week's issue of Science: scim.ag/43prS6n
ALT A small cunner (Tautogolabrus adspersus) peers through strands of sugar kelp (Saccharina latissima) in a lush kelp forest ecosystem on Cashes Ledge in the Gulf of Maine.
Zhe Zhu 🌎🛰️ retweeted
📢#callforresearchassistantprofessors! RCAIG of LSGI in #PolyU: RAP posts under Prof.@Qihao_Weng
1.#ClimateResilience #ResilientCommunities #ClimateChange #Geomatics
2.#ResilientCities #UrbanScience #UrbanClimate
📌Details: jobs.polyu.edu.hk/job_detail……… jobs.polyu.edu.hk/job_detail…
Zhe Zhu 🌎🛰️ retweeted
🚨Context, review, insights and direction- paper has it all!
@Joanne_C_White et al. Enhanced forest inventories in Canada: implementation, status, and research needs.
🔗cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.113…
Plus, stay current with updated #lidar coverage status maps:
ptompalski.github.io/CanadaF…
Zhe Zhu 🌎🛰️ retweeted
Finally published! We show that border protected areas are not being established where they are most needed, as 45.2% of high-conservation-value borders lack protection. Really pround of Tiantian! doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.202…
Zhe Zhu 🌎🛰️ retweeted
In Nature Climate Change @NatureClimate, we show that Extreme Weather Events (EWEs) have strong but different effects on plant and insect phenology. nature.com/articles/s41558-0… rdcu.be/eaLMu
Zhe Zhu 🌎🛰️ retweeted
NASA's HLS project has released new vegetation indices with 30m spatial resolution, enhancing global monitoring for agricultural and other vegetation-focused applications.
Dive into the data: earthdata.nasa.gov/news/harm…
#Vegetation #Agriculture #Nasa
Zhe Zhu 🌎🛰️ retweeted
The UConn Global Environmental Remote Sensing (GERS) Lab has developed a new remote sensing method to continuously monitor primary forest loss and determine what factors are driving that loss.
today.uconn.edu/2025/02/ucon…
Zhe Zhu 🌎🛰️ retweeted
AI will provide a deeper interpretation and autonomous identification of urban issues and the creation of customized urban designs. Open issues remain, esp. in integrating diverse geospatial big data, data security, and developing a general framework.
nature.com/articles/s42949-0…
