He Yin
Biography
Dr. Yin is an Assistant Professor of Geography at Kent State University, where he heads the Remote Sensing and Land Science Lab (SensLand Lab). Before joining KSU in 2020, He was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a senior researcher at the Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn in Germany.
His research focuses on understanding the dynamic changes in land systems using remote sensing techniques and interdisciplinary approaches. Dr. Yin serves as the principal investigator on projects funded by various organizations including NASA, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR). His research spans a diverse range of topics, including armed conflicts, cropland abandonment, grassland management, forest mapping, and issues on equity and environmental justice (EEJ). His recent research examining the impact of the 2023 Israel-Hamas War on agricultural lands in Gaza has been featured in media outlets such as CNN, BBC, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Guardian, among others. Ultimately, his goal is to promote sustainable and equitable land use practices that can benefit our natural environment and society.
He has published more than 40 publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals. He currently serves as coordinator of the Global Land Programme (GLP) Working Group "Agricultural Land Abandonment as a Global Land-Use Change Phenomenon".
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Curriculum Vitae
Education
Publications
- Bell, S. Raymond, R. Yin, H. ... and Terrer, C. (2023): Quantifying the recarbonization of post-agricultural landscapes. Nature Communications (14), 2139
- Crawford, C. Yin, H. Radeloff, V.C. Wilcove, D.S. (2022): Rural land abandonment is too ephemeral to provide major benefits for biodiversity and climate. Science Advances 8 (21), eabm8999
- Buchner, J. Butsic, V. Yin, H. … and Radeloff, V. (2022): Localized versus wide-ranging effects of the post-Soviet wars in the Caucasus on agricultural abandonment. Global Environmental Change. 76: 102580
- Yin, H. Tan, B. Frantz, D. Radeloff, V.C. (2022): Integrated topographic corrections improve forest mapping using Landsat imagery International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 108: 102716
- de Castro, P.I.B. Yin, H. Domingo, P. Teixera Junior, P.D. Lacerda, E. Pedroso, R. Lautenbach, S. Vicens, R.S. (2022): Sugarcane abandonment mapping in Rio de Janeiro state Brazil. Remote Sensing of Environment. 280: 113194
- Schulz, D. Yin, H. Tischbein, B. ... and Kumar, N. (2021): Land use mapping using Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 time series in a heterogeneous landscape in Niger, Sahel. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 178: 97-111
- Yin, H. Brandão Jr., A. Buchner, J. ... and Radeloff, V. (2020): Monitoring cropland abandonment with Landsat time series. Remote Sensing of Environment. 246: 111873
- Yin, H. Butsic, V. Buchner, J. ... and Radeloff, V. (2019): Agricultural abandonment and re-cultivation during and after the Chechen Wars in the northern Caucasus. Global Environmental Change. 55: 149-159
- Yin, H. Prishchepov, A. Kuemmerle, T. ... and Radeloff, V. (2018): Mapping agricultural land abandonment from spatial and temporal segmentation of Landsat time series. Remote Sensing of Environment. 210: 12-24
- Yin, H. Pflugmacher, D. Li, A. Li, Z.G. and Hostert, P. (2018): Land use and land cover change in Inner Mongolia – understanding the effects of China’s re-vegetation programs. Remote Sensing of Environment. 204: 918-930
- Yin, H. Khamzina, A. Pflugmacher, D. and Martius, C. (2017): Forest cover mapping in post-Soviet Central Asia using multi-resolution remote sensing imagery. Scientific Reports. 7:1375
Affiliations
Awards/Achievements
- New Faculty Outstanding Research and Scholarship Award, Kent State University
- NASA New (Early Career) Investigator Program in Earth Science