Haiyan Huang

research assistant professor

Center for Global Change and Earth Observations, Michigan State University

huangh33@msu.edu, Manly Miles Building, 1405 S. Harrison Rd, Room 101-13,East Lansing, MI 48824

Member of MSU David P. Roy Lab

Research Interests

  • Fire remote sensing

  • High performance computing for remote sensing

  • High resolution satellite data processing

  • Big satellite data processing

  • Application of machine learning in remote sensing

Education

  • 2008-2013 Ph.D. Atmospheric Physics, University of Oxford, UK

Recent Publications

  1. Martins, V.S., Roy, D.P., Huang, H., Boschetti, L., Zhang, H.K. and Yan, L., 2022. Deep learning high resolution burned area mapping by transfer learning from Landsat-8 to PlanetScope. Remote Sensing of Environment, 280, p.113203.

  2. Roy, D.P., Huang, H., Houborg, R. and Martins, V.S., 2021. A global analysis of the temporal availability of PlanetScope high spatial resolution multi-spectral imagery . Remote Sensing of Environment, 264, p.112586.

  3. Huang, H. and Roy, D.P., 2021. Characterization of Planetscope-0 Planetscope-1 surface reflectance and normalized difference vegetation index continuity. Science of Remote Sensing, 3, p.100014.

  4. Roy, D.P., Li, Z., Giglio, L., Boschetti, L., Huang, H., 2021, Spectral and diurnal temporal suitability of GOES Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) reflectance for burned area mapping, International Journal of Applied Earth Observations and Geoinformation, 96, 102271.

  5. Roy, D.P., Li, Z., Zhang, H.K. and Huang, H., 2020. A conterminous United States analysis of the impact of Landsat 5 orbit drift on the temporal consistency of Landsat 5 Thematic Mapper data. Remote Sensing of Environment, 240, 111701.

  6. Li, Z., Zhang, H.K., Roy, D.P., Yan, L. and Huang, H., 2020. Sharpening the Sentinel-2 10 and 20 m Bands to Planetscope-0 3 m Resolution. Remote Sensing, 12(15), 2406.

  7. Boschetti, L., Roy, D.P., Giglio, L., Huang, H., Zubkova, M. and Humber, M.L., 2019. Global validation of the collection 6 MODIS burned area product. Remote Sensing of Environment, 235, 111490.

  8. Roy, D.P., Huang, H., Boschetti, L., Giglio, L., Yan, L., Zhang, H.H. and Li, Z., 2019. Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 burned area mapping-A combined sensor multi-temporal change detection approach. Remote Sensing of Environment, 231, 111254.

  9. Kong, X., Guan, X., Cao, C., Zhang, T., Shen, L., Gan, Z., Ma, J. and Huang, H., 2019. Decadal change in soil moisture over East Asia in response to a decade‐long warming hiatus. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 124(15), 8619-8630.

  10. Xu, Y., Iida, Y., Huang, H., Shi, Z., Franklin, S.B., Luo, Y., Bao, D., Qiao, X., Lu, Z. and Jiang, M., 2019. Linkages between tree architectural designs and life-history strategies in a subtropical montane moist forest. Forest Ecology and Management, 438, 1-9.

  11. Gan, Z., Guan, X., Kong, X., Guo, R., Huang, H., Huang, W. and Xu, Y., 2019. The key role of Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation in minimum temperature over North America during global warming slowdown. Earth and Space Science, 6(3), 387-397.

  12. Egorov, A.V., Roy, D.P., Zhang, H.K., Li, Z., Yan, L. and Huang, H., 2019. Landsat 4, 5 and 7 (1982 to 2017) Analysis Ready Data (ARD) observation coverage over the conterminous United States and implications for terrestrial monitoring. Remote Sensing, 11(4),447.

  13. Yan, L., Roy, D.P., Li, Z., Zhang, H.K. and Huang, H., 2018. Sentinel-2A multi-temporal misregistration characterization and an orbit-based sub-pixel registration methodology. Remote Sensing of Environment, 215, 495-506.

  14. Zhang, H.K., Roy, D.P., Yan, L., Li, Z., Huang, H., Vermote, E., Skakun, S. and Roger, J.C., 2018. Characterization of Sentinel-2A and Landsat-8 top of atmosphere, surface, and nadir BRDF adjusted reflectance and NDVI differences. Remote sensing of environment, 215, 482-494.

  15. Roy, D.P., Li, J., Zhang, H.K., Yan, L., Huang, H. and Li, Z., 2017. Examination of Sentinel-2A multi-spectral instrument (MSI) reflectance anisotropy and the suitability of a general method to normalize MSI reflectance to nadir BRDF adjusted reflectance. Remote Sensing of Environment, 199, 25-38.

  16. Wang, J., Qi, M., Huang, H., Ye, R., Li, X. and Stewart, C.N., 2017. Atmospheric pollen dispersion from herbicide-resistant horseweed (Conyza canadensis L.). Aerobiologia, 33(3), 393-406.

  17. Li, Z., Zhang, H.K., Roy, D.P., Yan, L., Huang, H. and Li, J., 2017. Landsat 15-m panchromatic-assisted downscaling (LPAD) of the 30-m reflective wavelength bands to Sentinel-2 20-m resolution. Remote Sensing, 9(7), 755.

  18. Huang, H., Roy, D.P., Boschetti, L., Zhang, H.K., Yan, L., Kumar, S.S., Gomez-Dans, J. and Li, J., 2016. Separability analysis of Sentinel-2A Multi-Spectral Instrument (MSI) data for burned area discrimination. Remote Sensing, 8(10), 873.

  19. Yan, L., Roy, D.P., Zhang, H., Li, J. and Huang, H., 2016. An automated approach for sub-pixel registration of Landsat-8 Operational Land Imager (OLI) and Sentinel-2 Multi Spectral Instrument (MSI) imagery. Remote Sensing, 8(6), 520.

  20. Roy, D.P., Zhang, H.K., Ju, J., Gomez-Dans, J.L., Lewis, P.E., Schaaf, C.B., Sun, Q., Li, J., Huang, H. and Kovalskyy, V., 2016. A general method to normalize Landsat reflectance data to nadir BRDF adjusted reflectance. Remote Sensing of Environment, 176, 255-271.

  21. Ye, R., Huang, H., Alexander, J., Liu, W., Millwood, R.J., Wang, J. and Stewart, C.N., 2016. Field studies on dynamic pollen production, deposition, and dispersion of glyphosate-resistant horseweed (Conyza canadensis). Weed Science, 64(1), 101-111.

  22. Huang, H., Ye, R., Qi, M., Li, X., Miller, D.R., Stewart, C.N., DuBois, D.W. and Wang, J., 2015. Wind‐mediated horseweed (C onyza canadensis) gene flow: pollen emission, dispersion, and deposition. Ecology and evolution, 5(13), 2646-2658.

  23. Huang, H., Wang, J., Hui, D., Miller, D.R., Bhattarai, S., Dennis, S., Smart, D., Sammis, T. and Reddy, K.C., 2014. Nitrous oxide emissions from a commercial cornfield (Zea mays) measured using the eddy-covariance technique. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 14, 12839–12854,

  24. Huang, H., Thomas, G.E. and Grainger, R.G., 2010. Relationship between wind speed and aerosol optical depth over remote ocean. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 10(13).

  25. Huang, H., Zheng,G., 2009. Distribution of Aerosol over Beijing: Case Study Based on Aircraft Measurement [J]. Meteorological Monthly, 7.

  26. Huang, H., Fang, W. and Guoguang, Z., 2009. Aircraft observation of aerosol distribution in Beijing urban boundary layer during falltime. Acta Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Pekinensis, 45(2), 273-278.


Recent Presentations

  1. Roy, D., Huang, H., Cho, M., Yan, L., Boschetti, L., Martins, V., The potential of commercial high resolution satellite data for detailed burned area mapping, 5th Joint GOFC-GOLD Fire Implementation Team – Global Wildfire Information System Meeting, Hotel Regina Palace, Stresa, Italy, June 21-23 2022.

  2. Roy, D.P., Huang, H., Yan, L., Egorov, A., Souza-Martins, V., Wei, G., Rui, W., Machine learning PLANET high resolution training data for medium resolution land cover & disturbance mapping, online NASA Earth Science Data System Working Group (ESDSWG) Annual Meeting, April 19-21 2022.

  3. Roy, D.P., Huang, H., Martins, V., Boschetti, L., Africa burned area product generation and validation with Landsat-8, Sentinel-2 and commercial Planetscope imagery, 11th Southern African Fire Network (SAFNet) online meeting, July 28-29 2021.

  4. Roy, D.P., Huang, H., Li., Z., Souza-Martins, V., Zhang, H.K., Yan, L., High spatial resolution multispectral reflectance time series using Planetscope and NASA Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 data, Planet Inc. online colloquium, February 24 2021.

  5. Roy, D.P., Martins, V.S., Huang, H., Egorov, A., Wei, G., Wang, R., Machine learning PLANET high resolution training data for medium resolution land cover & disturbance mapping, NASA Earth Science Data System Working Group (ESDSWG) Meeting, Online, February 10 – 12 2021.

  6. Roy, D.P., Huang, H., Li., Z., Souza-Martins, V., Zhang, H.K., Yan, L., Evaluation and generation of consistent high spatial resolution multispectral reflectance time series using Planetscope and NASA Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 data. Invited oral presentation in Commercial Smallsat Data: Research and Applications in Earth Science I session, Fall Meeting, AGU, Online Everywhere, December 1-17 2020.

  7. Roy, D.P., Huang, H., Souza-Martins, V., Boschetti, L., Africa Burned Area Product Generation with Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 and testing the use of high resolution Planetscope imagery, 2020 NASA LCLUC Annual Science Team Meeting, October 19-21 2020.

  8. Roy, D.P., Huang, H., Yan, L., Li, Z., Zhang, H.K., Souza-Martins, V., Egorov, A., Analysis Ready Data – looking forward and to high spatial resolution, Summer 2020 USGS-NASA Landsat Science Team Webinar, September 2, 2020.

  9. Roy, D.P., Huang, H., Boschetti, L., Yan, L., Near daily 30 m burned area mapping using the NASA Harmonized Landsat-8 Sentinel-2 data, Winter 2020 USGS-NASA Landsat Science Team Meeting, Arizona State Office, Bureau of Land Management (BLM), U.S. Department of the Interior, Phoenix, Arizona, February 4-6, 2020.

  10. Huang, H., Roy, D., Boschetti, L., Validation of a 30 m combined Landsat 8 and Sentinel 2A/B burned area product using high resolution PLANET Dove-Classic and Dove-R constellation data, Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), San Francisco, December 9-13, 2019.

  11. Boschetti, L., Roy, D., Giglio, L. Huang, H., Zubkova, M., Humber, M.L. Global validation of the NASA MODIS and VIIRS burned area products, Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), San Francisco, December 9-13, 2019.

  12. Li, Z., Roy, D., Zhang, H., Huang, H., Conterminous United States evidence for Landsat 5 satellite orbit change reflectance inconsistencies, Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), San Francisco, December 9-13, 2019

  13. Roy, D.P., Huang, H., Giglio, L., Boschetti, L., How to meaningfully validate medium spatial resolution BA products?, Fourth Joint GOFC-GOLD Fire Implementation Team – Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS) Meeting, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Piazzale Aldo Moro 7, 00185 Rome, Italy, October 1-2, 2019.

  14. Roy, D.P., Yan, L., Egorov, A., Zhang, H.K., Li, Z., Huang, H., Landsat 4-7 Analysis Ready Data (ARD) historical observation coverage over the Conterminous United States, Implications for terrestrial monitoring & the need for Fill-and-Fit gap filling, Summer 2019 USGS-NASA Landsat Science Team Meeting, U.S. Geological Survey EROS, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, June 19-21, 2019.

  15. Roy, D.P., Huang, H., Yan, L., Li, Z., Zhang, H.K., Commercial satellite data evaluation for burned area mapping & validation of Landsat-8 Sentinel-2 African burned area product, NASA Data Buy Pilot Project Meeting, Cambria Hotel, Rockville, Maryland, May 31, 2019.

  16. Roy, D.P., Huang, H., Li, Z., Zhang, H.K.,Yan, L., Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 burned area mapping: southern Africa demonstration and validation, European Space Agency Living Planet Symposium, Milan, Italy, May 13-17, 2019.

  17. Roy, D.P., Huang, H., Boschetti, L., Giglio, L., Zhang, H.K., Yan, L., Li, Z., Progress on moving Multi-Source Land Imaging of Africa area burned to production, NASA Land Cover Land Use Change (LCLUC) Spring Science Team Meeting, Rockville Maryland, April 9-11, 2019.

  18. Roy, D.P., Huang, H., Li, Z., Zhang, H.K., Yan, L., Commercial satellite data evaluation for burned area mapping & validation of Landsat-8 Sentinel-2 African burned area product, NASA Land Cover Land Use Change (LCLUC) Spring Science Team Meeting, Rockville, Maryland, April 9-11, 2019.

  19. Roy, D.P., Huang, H., Boschetti, L., Giglio, L., Zhang, H.K., Yan, L., Li, Z., Combined Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 burned area mapping, ForestSAT, College Park, Maryland, October 2-5, 2018.

  20. Roy, D.P., Huang, H., Boschetti, L., Giglio, L., Zhang, H.K., Yan, L., Li, Z., Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 burned area updates, GOFC-GOLD GWIS Fire Implementation Team Meeting, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, Maryland, October 1-2, 2018.

  21. Cox, C., Poulsen, C., Siddans, R., Thomas, G., Grainger, R., Huang, H., Retrieval of radiatively consistent Sea Surface Temperature under clear and aerosol-loaded conditions using an optimal estimation scheme across the visible and infrared, European Geosciences Union General Assembly (EGU),Vienna, Austria, April 8-13, 2018.

  22. Roy, D.P., Huang, H., Boschetti, L., Zhang, H., Yan, L., Li, Z., Landsat-8 Sentinel-2 global burned area product Prototyping (Type II) to Production (Type 1), NASA Land Cover Land Use Change Spring Science Team Meeting, Gaithersburg Marriott Washingtonian Center (Rio), Maryland, April 3-5, 2018.

  23. Roy, D.P., Yan, L., Zhang, H.K., Li, Z., Huang, H., Egorov, A., Pathfinding near real time moderate resolution land surface monitoring: looking forward to an operational Landsat 9/10 Sentinel 2A/2B era, USGS-NASA Landsat Science Team Meeting, USGS EROS Center, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, February 21-22, 2018.

  24. Zhang, H., Roy, D.P., Yan, L., Li, Z., Huang, H., Comparison of Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2A reflectance and normalized difference vegetation index, Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), New Orleans, Louisiana, December 11-15, 2017.

  25. Huang, H., Roy, D.P., Zhang, H., Boschetti, L., Yan, L., Li, Z., Combined Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 burned area mapping, Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), New Orleans, Louisiana, December 11-15, 2017.

  26. Yan, L., Roy, D.P., Huang, H., Li, Z., Zhang, H., Demonstration of near real-time Sentinel-2A Landsat-8 registration, Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), New Orleans, Louisiana, December 11-15, 2017.

  27. Boschetti, L., Roy, D.P., Giglio, L., Stehman, S.V., Humber, M.L., Sathyachandran, S.K., Zubkova, M., Melchiorre, A., Huang, H., Huo, L.Z., Validation of the MODIS Collection 6 MCD64 Global burned area product, Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), New Orleans, Louisiana, December 11-15, 2017.

  28. Roy, D.P., Zhang, H.K., Yan, L., Huang, H., Li, Z., Challenges for the integration of Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 time series for change detection, PECORA 20 conference, Cross-calibration of Landsat 8 OLI and Sentinel 2 MSI and its impact on data interoperability Workshop, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, November 14-15, 2017. Invited panel member.

  29. Yan, L., Roy, D.P., Huang, H., Li, Z., Zhang, H.K., Operational Sentinel-2A L1C and Landsat-8 Collection-1 time-series registration, in Landsat/Sentinel Cross-Calibration session, PECORA 20 conference, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, November 14-16, 2017.

  30. Roy, D.P., Huang, H., Boschetti, L., Zhang, H.K., Yan, L., Li, Z., Development of a Landsat-8 Sentinel-2 30 m burned area product, in Fire and Fuel Loads session, PECORA 20 conference, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, November 14-16, 2017.

  31. Roy, D.P., Huang, H., Zhang, H.K., Yan, L., Boschetti, L., Li, J., Li, Z., Toward prototyping a Landsat-8 Sentinel-2 global burned area product, European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories Forest Fires Special Interest Group Workshop, Chania, Greece, September 25-27, 2017. Invited Keynote Presentation.

  32. Boschetti, L., Giglio, L., Roy, D.P., Humber, M., Kumar, S., Zubkova, M., Melchiorre, A., Huang, H., Huo, L-Z., The Collection 6 MODIS MCD64 global burned area poduct: status and validation, European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories Forest Fires Special Interest Group Workshop, Chania, Greece, September 25-27, 2017.

  33. Roy, D.P., Zhang, H.K., Yan, L., Huang, H., Li, Z., Li, J., Votava, P., Dosch, A., Big data is not important unless it is processed correctly, USGS-NASA Summer Landsat Science Team Meeting, USGS EROS Center, Sioux Falls, SD, July 11-13, 2017.

  34. Roy, D.P., Huang, H., Zhang, H.K., Yan, L., Li, Z., Li, J., Boschetti, L., Toward prototyping a Landsat-8 Sentinel-2 global burned area product, 37th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment (ISRSE-37), Tshwane, South Africa, May 8-12, 2017.

  35. Roy, D.P., Huang, H., Zhang, H.K., Yan, L., Li, Z., Li, J., Boschetti, L., Prototyping a Landsat8 Sentinel-2 global burned area product, NASA Land Cover Land Use change (LCLUC) MultiSource Land Imaging (MuSLI) Spring Science Team Meeting, Hilton, Rockville, Maryland, April 12-14, 2017.

  36. Roy, D.P., Zhang, H.K., Yan, L., Li, J., Huang, H., Li, Z., Votava, P., Dosch, A., Taking advantage of the moderate resolution data record: consistent global processing of Landsat and Sentinel-2 data and some applications, Symposium on Advanced Techniques for National Geographic State Monitoring, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China, December 17-18, 2016. Invited Keynote Presentation.

  37. Roy, D.P, Huang, H., Yan, L., Zhang, H., Li, J., Kumar, S., Boschetti, L., Mapping burned areas with Landsat class observations, ForestSAT 2016, Universidad Mayor, Huechuraba, Santiago, Chile, November 14-18, 2016.

  38. Huang, H., Roy, D.P., The potential of Landsat-like Sentinel-2 multi-spectral instrument (MSI) data for burned area discrimination, USGS-NASA Summer Landsat Science Team Meeting, Brookings, South Dakota, July 26-28, 20116

  39. Qi, M., Huang, H., Ye, R., Li, X., Miller, D.R., DuBois, D.W., Wang, J., Stewart, C.N., Atmospheric gene flow from herbicide-resistant horseweed outcrossing, American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers Annual International Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, July 26-29, 2015.