Yunci Xu

2024 - Present Visiting Ph.D. Student, Michigan State University, USA

2022 - Present Ph.D. Student, Remote Sensing and Geographical Information System, School of Earth Sciences, Zhejiang University, China

2018 - 2022 B.Sc., Geographical Information Science, School of Earth Sciences, Zhejiang University, China

Aquaculture remote sensing

Semantic segmentation and mapping in remote sensing

Application of machine learning in remote sensing

1. L. Lu, Y. Xu, X. Huang, H. K. Zhang and Y. Du, "Large-scale mapping of plastic-mulched land from Sentinel-2 using an index-feature-spatial-attention fused deep learning model," in Science of Remote Sensing, 100188, 2025, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.srs.2024.100188 

2. Y. Xu and L. Lu, "An Attention-Fused Deep Learning Model for Accurately Monitoring Cage and Raft Aquaculture at Large-Scale Using Sentinel-2 Data," in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol. 17, pp. 9099-9109, 2024, doi: 10.1109/JSTARS.2024.3390762. 

3. Y. Xu and L. Lu, "Spatiotemporal distribution of cage and raft aquaculture in China's offshore waters using object-oriented random forest classifier," 2022 10th International Conference on Agro-geoinformatics (Agro-Geoinformatics), Quebec City, QC, Canada, 2022, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/Agro-Geoinformatics55649.2022.9859080. 

4. Y. Xu, W. Wu and L. Lu, "Remote Sensing Mapping of Cage and Floating-raft Aquaculture in China's Offshore Waters Using Machine Learning Methods and Google Earth Engine," 2021 9th International Conference on Agro-Geoinformatics (Agro-Geoinformatics), Shenzhen, China, 2021, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/Agro-Geoinformatics50104.2021.9530297. 

1. Xu, Y., Yan, L., Roy, D.P., A novel approach for satellite coastal-aquaculture cage and raft detection using sensor band misregistration parallax over coastal waves, Presentation in Symposium on Spatial AI & Data Science for Sustainability: Geospatial Artificial Intelligence, Remote Sensing, and Deep Learning, 2025 American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting, Detroit, 24 – 28 March 2025.