Where and how will urban areas expand?
- Kangning Huang, Xia Li, Xiaoping Liu, Karen C. Seto. 2019. Projecting global urban land expansion and heat island intensification through 2050. Environmental Research Letters. 14(11): 114037. (Media coverage: Yale News, E&E News, Scientific American; Open database: WRI-Resource Watch)
- Kangning Huang, Jiye Leng, Yong Xu, Xinwei Li, Meng Cai, Ran Wang, Chao Ren. 2021. Facilitating urban climate forecasts in rapidly urbanizing regions with land-use change modeling. Urban Climate. 36, 100806. (PDF)
- Guangzhao Chen, Xia Li, Xiaoping Liu, Xun Liang, Jiye Leng, Yao Yao, Yue'an Qiu, Qianlian Wu, Kangning Huang. 2020. Global projections of future urban land expansion under shared socioeconomic pathways. Nature Communication. 11(1): 537.
- Yimin Chen, Xia Li, Kangning Huang, Ming Luo, Minyi Gao. 2020. High‐Resolution Gridded Population Projections for China Under the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways. Earth’s Future. 8(6), e2020EF001491.
- Xiaoping Liu, Yinghuai Huang, Xiaocong Xu, Xuecao Li, Xia Li, Philippe Ciais, Peirong Lin, Kai Gong, Alan Ziegler, Anping Chen, Peng Gong, Jun Chen, Guohua Hu, Yimin Chen, Shaojian Wang, Qiusheng Wu, Kangning Huang, Lyndon Estes, Zhenzhong Zeng. 2020. High spatiotemporal resolution mapping of global urban change reveals fast urban expansion from 1985 to 2015. Nature Sustainability. 3, 564-570.
- Tango Hu, Jiahong Liu, Gang Zheng, Dengrong Zhang, Kangning Huang. 2019. Evaluation of historical and future wetland degradation using remote sensing imagery and land-use modeling. Land Degradation and Development. 31(1): 65-80.
What are the environmental impacts of urbanization and climate change?
- Kangning Huang, Xuhui Lee, Brian Stone Jr., Jason Knievel, Michelle L. Bell, Karen C. Seto. 2021. Persistent increases in nighttime heat stress from urban expansion despite heat island mitigation. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 126(4), e2020JD033831. (PDF)
- Pak Shing Yeung, Jimmy Chi-Hung Fung, Chao Ren, Yong Xu, Kangning Huang, Jiye Leng, Michael Mau-Fong Wong. 2020. Investigating future urbanization’s impact on local climate under different climate change scenarios in mega-urban regions: A case study of the Pearl River Delta, China. Atmosphere. 11(7), 771.
- Robert I. McDonald, Andressa V. Mansur, Fernando Ascensão, M'Lisa Colbert, Katie Crossman, Thomas Elmqvist, Andrew Gonzalez, Burak Güneralp, Dagmar Haase, Maike Hamann, Oliver Hillel, Kangning Huang, Belinda Kahnt, David Maddox, Andrea Pacheco, Henrique Pereira, Karen Seto, Rohan Simkin, Brenna Walsh, Alexandra S Werner, Carly Ziter. 2019. Research gaps in knowledge of the impact of urban growth on biodiversity. Nature Sustainability. 3: 16-24.
- Siyu Chen, Nanxuan Jiang, Jianping Huang, Xiaoguang Xu, Huiwei Zhang, Zhou Zhang, Kangning Huang, Xiaocong Xu, Yun Wei, Xiaodan Guan, Xiaorui Zhang, Yuan Luo, Zhiyuan Hu, Taichen Feng. 2018. Quantifying contributions of natural and anthropogenic dust emission from different climate regions. Atmospheric Environment. 191: 94-104.
- Siyu Chen, Xiaorui Zhang, Jintai Lin, Jianping Huang, Dan Zhao, Tiangang Yuan, Kangning Huang, Yuan Luo, Zhuo Jia, Zhuo Zang, Yue’an Qiu, Li Xie. 2019. Fugitive road dust PM2.5 emission and their potential health impacts. Environmental Science & Technology. 53(14): 8455-8465.
Advancing modern geographic techniques.
- Kangning Huang, Xiaoping Liu, Xia Li, Jiayong Liang, Shenjing He. 2012. An improved artificial immune system for seeking the Pareto front of land-use allocation problem in large areas. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 27(5): 922-946. (PDF)
- Xiaoping Liu, Xia Li, Xun Shi, Kangning Huang, Yilun Liu. 2012. A multi-type ant colony optimization (MACO) method for optimal land use allocation in large areas. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 26(7): 1325-1343.
- Xiaoping Liu, Shuli Chen, Li Zhuo, Jun Li, Kangning Huang. 2018. Multi-sensor image registration by combining local self-similarity matching and mutual information. Frontiers of Earth Science. 12(4): 779-790.
- Jiayong Liang, Xiaoping Liu, Kangning Huang, Xia Li, Xun Shi, Yaning Chen. 2015. Improved snow depth retrieval by integrating microwave brightness temperature and visible/infrared reflectance. Remote Sensing of Environment. 156: 500-509.
- Jiayong Liang, Xiaoping Liu, Kangning Huang, Xia Li, Dagang Wang, Xianwei Wang. 2013. Automatic registration of multi-sensor images using an integrated spatial and mutual information (SMI) metric. IEEE Transaction on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 52(1): 603-615.