Yang Shao
Assistant Professor, yshao@vt.edu
Office: 113 Major Williams Hall
Phone: 540-231-1867
At Virginia Tech Since: 2011
Education: Ph.D., UNC-Chapel Hill, 2007

• Research Interests:
  
  Remote sensing
  GIS
  Land use and land cover change
  Watershed assessment and modeling
  
  
• Classes Recently Taught:
  
  Geo-spatial techniques for Land Modeling
  
  
• Recent Publications:
  
  Shao, Y., G.N. Taff, S.J. Walsh. 2011. Shadow detection and building height estimation using IKONOS data. International Journal of Remote Sensing, DOI:10.1080/01431161.2010.517226.
  
  Shao, Y., G.N. Taff, R. Lunetta. 2011. A review of selected MODIS algorithms, data products, and applications, in Advances in Environmental Remote Sensing: Sensors, Algorithms, and Applications – edited by Qihao, Weng and published by CRC/Taylor and Francis, pages 31-55.
  
  Shao, Y., R. Lunetta, 2010. Sub-pixel mapping of tree canopy, impervious surfaces and cropland in the Laurentian Great Lakes Basin using MODIS time-series data. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 4(2), pages 336-347.
  
  Shao, Y., G.N. Taff, S.J. Walsh, 2010. Comparison of early stop criteria for neural network-based sub-pixel classification. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing letters, 8(1), pages 113-117.
  
  Shao, Y., R. Lunetta, J. Ediriwickrema, J. Iiames, 2010. Mapping cropland and major crop types across the Great Lakes Basin using MODIS-NDVI data. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 75(1), pages 73-84.
  
  Lunetta, R., Shao, Y., Ediriwickrema, J., Lyon, J.G., 2010. Monitoring agricultural cropping patterns in the Great Lakes Basin using MODIS-NDVI data. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 12, pages 81-88.
  
  Shao, Y., S.J. Walsh, B. Entwisle, R.R. Rindfuss, 2008. Spatial clustering and urban settings of rural migrants in Bangkok, Thailand. GeoCarto International, 23, 1, pages 35 – 52.
  
  Walsh, S.J., Shao, Y., Mena, C.F., McCleary, A.L., 2008. Integration of Hyperion satellite data and a household social survey to characterize the causes and consequences of reforestation patterns in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 74(6), pages 725-735.
  
  Walsh, S.J., McCleary, A.L., Mena, C.F., Shao, Y., J.P. Tuttle, A. González, and R. Atkinson, 2008. QuickBird and Hyperion data analysis of an invasive plant species in the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador: Implications for control and land use management, Remote Sensing of Environment, 112, 1927 – 1941.