Research Interests

• Land cover mapping and validation
• Multi-temporal image and vegetation phenology analysis
• Carbon cycle modeling
  

Current Research

• Potential distribution of forest in China and its carbon effect

Education and employment history

• Young scientist summer program participant, International Institute of Applied System Analysis, Austria (2012.5-2012.9)
• Ph.D. student, Ecology, Tsinghua University, China (2010.9-)
• B.Sc, Remote Sensing and GIS, Beijing Normal University, China (2006.9-2010.7)

PUBLICATIONS

• Yuanyuan Zhao, Peng Gong, Luanyun Hu, Xueyan Li, Congcong Li et al., 2013. Towards a common validation sample set for global land cover mapping. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, under review.
• Linda See, Dmitry Schepaschenko, Myroslava Lesiv, Ian McCallum, Steffen Fritz, Alexis Comber, Christoph Perger, Christian Schill, Yuanyuan Zhao, Victor Maus, Muhammad Athar Siraj, Franziska Albrecht, Anna Cipriani, Mar'yana Vakolyuk, Alfredo Garcia, Ahmed H Rabia, Kuleswar Singha, Abel A Macarini, Teja Kattenborn, Rubul Hazarika, Maria Schepaschenko, Marijn van der Velde, Florian Kraxner, Michael Obersteiner, 2013. Building a Hybrid Land Cover Map with Crowdsourcing and Geographically Weighted Regression. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, under review.
• Sun Fangdi, Yuanyuan Zhao, Peng Gong, Ronghua Ma, Yongjiu Dai, 2013. Remote sensing of dynamic land cover types: areal variation of major water bodies in China from 2001-2010 at a time scale of 8 days. Chinese Science Bulletin, In press.
• Xianwei Wang, Peng Gong, Yuanyuan Zhao, Yue Xu, Xiao Cheng, Zhenguo Niu, Zhicai Luo, Huabing Huang and Xiaowen Li, 2013. Water-level changes in China's large lakes determined from ICESat/GLAS data. Remote Sensing of Environment, 132: 131-144.
• Gong P, Jie Wang, Le Yu, Yongchao Zhao, Yuanyuan Zhao, Lu Liang, et al., 2013. Finer resolution observation and monitoring of global land cover: first mapping results with Landsat TM and ETM+ data. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 34(7):2607-2654.
• Le Yu, Lu Liang, Jie Wang, Yuanyuan Zhao, Qu Cheng et al., 2012, Knowledge discovery by mapping remote sensing-based land cover classification in the world. International Journal of Remote Sensing, under review.
• Liqiang Zhang, YM Tan, ZZ Kang, XP Rui, Yuanyuan Zhao, L Liu, 2009. A methodology for 3D modeling and visualization of geological objects. Sci China Ser D-Earth Sci, 52(7):1022-1029, dol: 10.1007/s11430-009-0105-0

EDITING WORK

• Peng Gong, 2013. Review of Global Change Research ( 3rd edition), Higher Education Press, Beijing. Compilation of Chapter 6 (Terrestrial ecosystem carbon cycle observation and modeling)
• Peng Gong, 2011. Review of Global Change Research ( 2nd edition), Higher Education Press, Beijing. Translation and edition of Chapter 2 (Global biogeography and ecology of body size in bkenirds)