Zhiwei Ye's Page


Ye, Zhiwei


Graduate Student in Forestry


Townsend Lab

Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology


University of Wisconsin-Madison

Russell Labs, Linden Dr., Madison, WI, USA, 53706

Email: ye6@wisc.edu


Research Interest

Change detection of land use and land cover using medium resolution remote sensing, especially in urban areas of China.

Previously, I mainly focused on urban thermal environment study with the help of thermal bands from ASTER and TM.


Education

B.S. in Geographical Information System, 2006

Nanjing University, Nanjing, China


M.S. in Cartography & Geographical Information System, 2009

Capital Normal University, Beijing, China


M.S. in Environment & Resources, 2016

University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA


M.S. in Computer Sciences, 2020

University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA





Publication

Mr. Ye

Ye, Z., Deng C., & Gong H. "Acquiring height distribution information about high-rises in Beijing using shadow in SPOT-5", Geoinformatics 2008 and Joint conference on GIS and Built Environment, Proc. SPIE. Vol.7147:71470S, Nov.7, 2008.

Ye, Z., Zhu L., & Gong. H. "Extracting height distribution information about high-rise buildings of Beijng using shadow in SPOT-5 data", IGARSS 2008 (Accepted for Oral Presentation).

Ye, Z., Qin Z., & Gong H. Land surface temperature retrieval and spatial variation analysis using Landsat TM6 in Hongze Lake, Journal of Capital Normal University (Natural Science), Vol.30(1):112-119, Feb, 2009.

Queally, N., Ye, Z., Zheng, T., Chlus, A., Schneider, F., Pavlick, R. P., & Townsend, P. A. (2022). FlexBRDF: A flexible BRDF correction for grouped processing of airborne imaging spectroscopy flightlines. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 127(1), e2021JG006622. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JG006622

Kang, Y., Özdoğan, M., Zhu, X., Ye, Z., Hain, C., & Anderson, M. (2020). Comparative assessment of environmental variables and machine learning algorithms for maize yield prediction in the US Midwest. Environmental Research Letters, 15(6), 064005. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab7df9

Wang, Z., Chlus, A., Geygan, R., Ye, Z., Zheng, T., Singh, A., Couture, J.J., Cavender‐Bares, J., Kruger, E.L. and Townsend, P.A. (2020). Foliar functional traits from imaging spectroscopy across biomes in eastern North America. New Phytologist, 228(2), 494-511. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.16711

Chang, C., Ye, Z., Huang, Q., & Wang, C. (2015, November). An integrative method for mapping urban land use change using "geo-sensor" data. In Proceedings of the 1st International ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Smart Cities and Urban Analytics (pp. 47-54). https://doi.org/10.1145/2835022.2835031

Zheng, T., Ye, Z., Singh, A., Desai, A. R., Krishnayya, N. S. R., Dave, M. G., & Townsend, P. A. (2024). Variability in forest plant traits along the Western Ghats of India and their environmental drivers at different resolutions. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 129(3), e2023JG007753. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JG007753

Lien, M. R., Barker, R. J., Ye, Z., Westphall, M. H., Gao, R., Singh, A., ... & Townsend, P. A. (2019). A low-cost and open-source platform for automated imaging. Plant Methods, 15, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13007-019-0392-1


Poster Presentation

Zhiwei Ye and Annemarie Schneider. "Automated characterization od urban expansion in complex landscapes in China using dense temporal stacks of Landsat data", ASPRS 2011 Annual Conference, Milwaukee, WI, USA, May, 2011.

Zhiwei Ye, Ting Zheng, Daniel Sousa, and Philip A Townsend. "A universal method for estimating vegetation fractional cover in forested areas using hyperspectral imagery", AGU22, Chicago, IL, USA, Dec, 2022.

Zhiwei Ye Ting Zheng, and Philip A. Townsend. "Adaptive endmember extraction in hyperspectral fractional cover mapping", AGU25, New Orleans, LA, USA, Dec, 2025.



Portfolio

portfolio
Art/Aesthetic Challenge
US Unemployment Rate and Ranking by State in 2012 US Unemployment Rate and Ranking by State in 2012

This artistic map rendering was completed to meet the requirements of an advanced Cartography course at UW-Madison. The exercise required each student to design the map using a different, assigned artistic/emotional inspiration. The views presented in the artistic rendering do not necessarily reflect my personal views on unemployment.

Other maps and projects

Demo2 first
Map: Ash cover retrieved by single date AVIRIS data
Demo2 second
Map: Newly built high-rise constructs in Chaoyang, Beijing
Demo2 third
Map: Shanghai Districts
Demo2 fourth
Computational Photography: Panorama of lake shore Mendota
Demo2 fifth
Map: Differences between land surface temperature results by two methods
Demo2 sixth
Project: Phenology of sample sites in Bangalore shown by NDVI