• Oct, 2022 - We are hiring a postdoc on environmental remote sensing for land change. Please email me.

• May, 2021 - The recently published paper is featured in BingUNews, with a circulation over 14 million. Link for the web page of BingUNews.

• April, 2021 - Very glad that the new paper has been taken up by a number of news sites around the world (in German, French, Japanese, Chinese, and more). Over the past week, it has ranked 3rd in Altmetric attention in the past week across all (>2,600) Taylor & Francis publications. Link for the metrics.

• April, 2021 - Dr. Deng's  new article "Deep fake geography? When geospatial data encounter Artificial Intelligence" is accepted by Cartography and Geographic Information Science and is now available online.

• March, 2021 - Congratulations to my advisees, Ailing Jin, Haoran Liu, and Huihai Wang, for their acceptance into PhD programs with full financial support! Their offers come from 10 universities:

Arizona State U, U Georgia, U Texas-Austin, Texas A&M, NCSU, U Wisconsin-Madison, U Connecticut, McGill, U Utah, and U Iowa

Congratulations to all! Very proud of you!

• February, 2021 - Dr. Deng's new article "The characteristics of multi-source mobility datasets and how they reveal the luxury nature of social distancing in the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic” is accepted by International Journal of Digital Earth  and is now available online.

• January, 2021 - Dr. Deng gave an online presentation “Mapping subpixel urban impervious surface and monitoring its dynamics with Landsat time series” at the USGS EROS Center. Thanks USGS for the invitation! Very nice talking with LCMAP team members.

• July, 2020 - Dr. Deng's  new article "Synergistic use of multi-source images to improve subpixel urban impervious surface mapping in desert environments" is accepted by International Journal of Remote Sensing (Impact factor: 2.976).

• May, 2020 - Dr. Deng's new article "Mortality risk of a future heat event across a subtropical city: implications for community planning and health policy” is accepted by Natural Hazards and is now available online.

• April, 2020 - project of COVID response from our lab is launched.

• March, 2020 - Congratulations to my advisee, Jian Xu, for his acceptance into UCSB/SDSU PhD program with full financial support! Congratulations Jian!

• Feb 27, 2020 - Dr. Deng's  new article "Analysis of sustainable utilization of water resources based on the improved water resources ecological footprint model" is accepted by Journal of Environmental Management (Impact factor: 5.647).

• November, 2019 - Congratulations to our lab member, Mr. Huihai Wang! His poster about a recent project in my lab about in-situ sensing won the first place (graduate level) of GIS Day poster competition as well as people's choice award! Congratulations, Huihai!

• October, 2019 - Dr. Deng's work on using UAV to create the night light image of Binghamton Campus has been reported by BU magazine. Check the link here.

• October, 2019 - A new article "Does vegetation matter for the criminal behavior among people with serious mental illness? " was accepted by Asian Social Work and Policy Review , of which Dr. Deng serves as a co-author to produce vegetation information from satellite images in different cities for this research. 

• April 25, 2019 - Dr. Deng gave a webinar presentation for IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) Washington DC/Northern VA Chapter Webinar Seminar. A lot of fun to share the outcomes from our most recent studies with friends, colleagues and the research community! The title of this webminar is: Data and algorithms for mapping and monitoring urban impervious surface through earth observation.

• April, 2019 - Dr. Deng served as major committee chair for the thesis defenses of our lab members, as well as the external PhD committee member of Duong Le from Department of Economics. Congratulations to all!

• April 16, 2019 - A paper is accepted for publication in Remote Sensing of Environment (No. 1 Remote Sensing journal). It will appear in the RSE special issue: 50 Years of Environmental Remote Sensing Research: 1969 - 2019.

• April 3-7, 2019 - Dr. Deng and his current/former lab members gave their presentations on Remote Sensing and Urban Analytics at American Association of Geographers in Washington, DC. 

Looking forward to seeing you all (and hopefully more our lab members/alums) soon! Yalin Yang, and Huiyu Lin

• March 26, 2019 - Congratulations to our lab member, Ms. Li Xi! She is the sole graduate recipient of 2019 Hsu Award in Remote Sensing at SUNY Binghamton. Congratulations, Li!

• March 8, 2019 - A manuscript is published in Annals of American Association of Geographers (Flagship journal)

• February 2019 - Congratulations to my three advisees and lab members for getting offers from PhD programs!

  • Ms. Weiying Lin received two offers from Purdue (ranked 56) and Texas A&M (ranked 66, tie) with TA/RA

  • Ms. Li Xi received an offer from Clark University (ranked 66, tie)  with TA/RA support

  • Mr. Yalin Yang received an offer from University of Texas-Dallas with TA/RA

Congratulations to you all! So pround of you all! Keep up your good works in your future PhD study. GEMA lab is always your home. Welcome back any time!

• October 12, 2018, a manuscript from our lab is accepted for publication in Remote Sensing Letters.

• October 6, 2018, a manuscript is accepted for publication in Remote Sensing of Environment (No. 1 Remote Sensing journal).

• August 2018, Welcome new members, Ms. Ailing Jin and Mr. Tianchi Zang, to GEMA lab!

• June 8, 2018, a manuscript  is accepted for publication in Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space.

• April 2018, Dr. Deng gave a presentation on his research on Continuous Subpixel Monitoring in Annual Meeting of American Association of Geographers in New Orlean, Louisiana

• March 2018 - Congratulations to our GEMA lab members who received the 2018 Hsu Award in Remote Sensing  at graduate and undergraduate levels, respectively.