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

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.

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
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.

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.








