About Us
The Vegetation And environMent remOte Sensing (VAMOS) group advances quantitative remote sensing of vegetation structure, function, and environmental interactions across both natural and urban ecosystems. Vegetation in cities and natural landscapes plays a crucial role in regulating local climate, mitigating heat extremes, stabilizing soils, enhancing carbon storage, and maintaining biodiversity. By integrating multi-source Earth observation data, we investigate vegetation 3D structure and physiological–biochemical dynamics, and unravel how radiative transfer, hydrological cycles, and biogeochemical processes drive energy and matter exchanges among soil, vegetation, and the atmosphere.
Faculty Members
Research Focus
1. Radiative Transfer & Quantitative Remote Sensing
We study the physical principles of electromagnetic scattering, absorption, and emission to reveal the intrinsic connections between the physical world and remotely sensed observations. Our work develops multi-scale inversion theories and robust retrieval approaches to produce accurate land-surface parameter estimates from global and regional observation systems.
2. Vegetation Structure and Functional Remote Sensing
We address key challenges in monitoring vegetation structure and function using hyperspectral, LiDAR, thermal infrared, and solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) techniques. Our research spans forests, croplands, wetlands, and urban green spaces, focusing on reconstructing canopy 3D architecture and quantifying physiological processes across diverse environments.
3. Global Change, Urban Environments, and Ecosystem Applications
We apply advanced remote sensing to investigate how ecosystems respond to global environmental change, with applications in urban environmental monitoring, ecosystem health assessment, agricultural management, and disaster risk reduction. Our goal is to understand the spatiotemporal evolution of critical geographic processes and support sustainable planning, ecological restoration, and climate resilience in both natural and urban settings.