Achievements

Education Education

Ph.D. in Geography, University of Georgia (2021)

M.S. in Cartography and Geographic Information Science, University of Chinese Academy of Science (2017)

B.S. in Geographic Information Science, Northwest A&F University (2014)

Research Interests

GIScience Environmental Pollution Landscape Morphology

Urban Informatics Social justice Human-Environment Interaction

Peer-reviewed Publications

(14). Ye Tian, Joao Porto de Albuquerque, Nick Bailey. Estimating hyperlocal traffic CO 2 by customizing spatial relationship: An analysis from Digital Footprint data[J]. AGILE: GIScience Series, 2024, 5: 46.

(13). Keyi Shen, Ye Tian*, Bisong Hu, Jin Luo, Shuhua Qi, Songli Chen, Hui Lin (2024). “Association rule mining of air quality through an improved Apriori algorithm: A case study in 244 Chinese cities”. Transactions in GIS. DOI: 10.1111/tgis.13156

(12). Ye Tian, Xiaobai Yao*, Marguerite Madden, Andrew Grundstein (2023). “Synergic effects of meteorological factors on urban form-outdoor exercise relationship: A study with crowdsourced data”. Journal of Geographical Systems. DOI: 10.1007/s10109-023-00424-x

(11). Ye Tian, An Wang, Priyanka deSouza, Simone Mora*, Xiaobai Yao, Fabio Duarte, Hui Lin, Carlo Ratti (2023). “Improving NO2 prediction by integrating tree diversity, urban form, and lacunarity analysis through mobile monitoring”. Applied Geography. DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2023.102943

(10). Yichen Luo, Shuhua Qi*, Shaoyu Zhang, Bisong Hu, Ye Tian (2023) “Mapping the Forest Height by Fusion of ICESat-2 and Multi-Source Remote Sensing Imagery and Topographic Information: A Case Study in Jiangxi Province, China”. Forests. DOI: 10.3390/f14030454

(9). Ye Tian, Priyanka deSouza, Simone Mora*, Xiaobai Yao, Fabio Duarte, Leslie K Norford, Hui Lin, Carlo Ratti (2021). “Evaluating the Meteorological Effects on the Urban Form−Air Quality Relationship Using Mobile Monitoring”. Environmental Science & Technology. DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.1c04854

(8). Ye Tian, Xiaobai Yao*, Liding Chen (2019). “Analysis of Spatial and Seasonal Distributions of Air Pollutants by Incorporating Urban Morphological Characteristics”. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. DOI: 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2019.01.003

(7). Ye Tian, Xiaobai Yao*, Lan Mu, Qinjin Fan, Yijun Liu (2020). “ Integrating meteorological factors for better understanding of the urban form-air quality relationship”. Landscape Ecology. DOI: 10.1007/s10980-020-01094-6

(6). Ye Tian*, Xiaobai Yao (2021). “Urban Form, Traffic Volume, and Air Quality: A Spatiotemporal Stratified Approach”. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science DOI:10.1177/2399808321995822

(5). Shixin Wang, Ye Tian*, Yi Zhou, Wenliang Liu, Chenxi Lin (2016). “Fine-Scale Population Estimation by 3D Reconstruction of Urban Residential Buildings”, Sensors, DOI: 10.3390/s16 101755)

(4). Yi Zhou, Chenxi Lin*, Shixin Wang, Wenliang Liu, Ye Tian (2016). “Estimation of building density with the integrated use of GF-1 PMS and Radarsat-2 data”, Remote Sensing. DOI: 10.3390/rs8110969

(3). Ye Tian*, Shixin Wang, Yi Zhou, Wenliang Liu, Chenxi Lin (2016). “Urban building height estimation from Radarsat-2 imagery, a case study in Beijing, China”, Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2016 IEEE International, pp.1066-1069. DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2016.77 29270

(2). Shixin Wang, Ye Tian*, Yi Zhou, Wenliang Liu, Chenxi Lin (2017). “Building height extraction from multi-polarization SAR imagery based on backscattering model”, Remote Sensing for Land and Resources. DOI: 10.6046/gtzyyg.2017.02.06

(1). Chenxi Lin, Yi Zhou, Shixi Wang, Wenlinag Liu, Ye Tian, Yannan Zhang (2016). “Variogram-based rural build-up area extraction from middle and high resolution SAR images”, Journal of Image and Graphics. DOI: 10.11834/jig.20160515

Research Grants

PI, Ambitious Interdisciplinary Research Funding, University of Glasgow (GBP 5,000) “An assessment of Low-Emission Zones through air quality, health risks, and social justice by leveraging Digital Footprint data in Glasgow”

PI (2022), Youth Science Foundation of Jiangxi Province, Natural Science Foundation of Jiangxi Province (CNY 100,000) “The Spatiotemporal Distribution of Air Pollution in Nanchang, China, Based on Mobile Monitoring”

PI (2022), Early-Career Research Grant, Jiangxi Normal University (CNY 100,000)

PI (2020), Summer Doctoral Research Assistantship, University of Georgia (USD 3,500)

“Investigating the Relationship between Urban Form and Air Pollution: Application in Health Risk Assessment”

PI (2020), Innovative and Interdisciplinary Research Grant, University of Georgia (USD 2,000)

“Understanding the Relationship Between Urban Form and Air Pollution: A Spatiotemporal Perspective”

Co-PI (2023), Fund for Less Developed Regions of the Less Developed Regions, National Natural Science Foundation of China (CNY, 300,000), "Sample Size Demand Driven by Spatial-spectral Scales in Remote Sensing Intelligent Interpretation"

Co-PI (2022), Natural Science Foundation of Jiangxi Province, Natural Science Foundation of Jiangxi Province, China (CNY, 100,000) “An Intelligent Query Method on GeoSpatial Information of Poyang LakeEcological Economic Zone”

Awards and Honors

National Undergraduate GIS Application Skills Competition (1st place), The Geographical Society of China (GSC) 2022

National GIS Teaching Competition (2nd place), China Association for Geospatial Industry and Science 2022

Dissertation Completion Award, University of Georgia (USD 21,840) 2021

Graduate Education Advancement Board Fellowship, University of Georgia (USD 2,500) 2021

Best Paper Award (2nd place), Remote Sensing Specialty Group, American Association of Geography (USD 300) 2019

Graduate Student Travel Grant, University of Georgia (USD 2,000) 2019

Graduate School Research Assistantship Block Grants, University of Georgia (USD 22,866) 2017

Outstanding Graduate, University of Chinese Academy of Science (Top 1%) 2017

National Scholarship, Ministry of Educational of P.R. China (Top 1%) (CNY 8,000) 2013

Social Elite Scholarship, Shanghai Baosteel Group Corporation (Top 3%) (CNY 5,000) 2012

National Scholarship, Ministry of Educational of P.R. China (Top 1%) (CNY 8,000) 2011

The First Prize Academic Scholarship, Northwest A&F University (Top 5%) (CNY 2,000), 2011