Zijun Yang
Assistant Professor
Hello! I am an assistant professor at the Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of North Carolina Wilmington.
My research interest lies in the intersection of Earth observation, agriculture, vegetation dynamics, and environmental sustainability. My ongoing work spans from near real-time crop characterization (e.g., crop type, crop progress, and health condition), remote identification of vegetation phenology, spatiotemporal fusion of multi-scale Earth observation data, to modeling spatial and temporal dynamics of agricultural, forest, and coastal ecosystems.
Education
Ph.D., Geography, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2024)
M.S., Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2018)
B.S., Geographic Information Science, Sun Yat-sen University (2012)
Research Interests
• Earth Observation
• Vegetation Phenology
• Agriculture and Food Security
• Spatiotemporal Modeling