
Wenhui Kuang, associate professor, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Email: kuangwh@igsnrr.ac.cn
Telephone: 010-64888890
Address: Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Postcode: 100101
Research Areas
Global change, land use / cover change and urban ecology and environment
Education
2002/9-2007/7: Doctorate in Science in Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
1998/9-2002/7: Bachelor of Science in Management Science in Inner Mongolia Normal University
Experience
Work Experience
- 2016/1-2016/3: International visiting scholar in Michigan State University, Auburn University, and Oklahoma University
- 2012/12-Present: Associate professor in Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 2009/12-2012/11: Research Assistant in Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 2008/6-2009/1: International visiting scholar in Auburn University
- 2007/7-2009/11: Post-doctoral in Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Honors & Distinctions
- Key technology and application demonstration of urban high-precision spatio-temporal information acquisition (The second prize of national surveying and mapping technology progress in 2016, 2016-01-02-16)
- Research and demonstration of key technologies for urban ecological environment monitoring and governance (The second prize of national environmental protection science and technology award in 2015, KJ2015-2-08).
- Excellent science and Technology Award for China Society Natural Resources in 2017.
- Excellent author for the Journal of Geographical Sciences in 2016 and 2017.
- “Spatiotemporal characteristics, patterns and causes of land use changes in China since the late 1980s”FRONTRUNNER 5000 TOP ARTICLES IN OUTSTANDING S&T JOURNAL OF CHINA.2017.
- Research and development of key technologies for urban ecological environment monitoring and control (The second prize of science and technology award for environmental protection in 2015, KJ2015-2-08).
Publications
Papers
Kuang W H, Yang T Y, Yan F Q. Examining urban land-cover characteristics and ecological regulation during the construction of Xiong’an New District, Hebei Province, China. Journal of Geographical Sciences, 2018, 28(1): 109-123.
Kuang W H, Yang T Y, Liu A L, et al. An EcoCity model for regulating urban land cover structure and thermal environment: Taking Beijing as an example. Science China Earth Sciences, 2017, 60(6): 1098–1109.
Kuang W H, Chen L J, Liu J Y, et al. Remote sensing-based artificial surface cover classification in Asia and spatial pattern analysis. Science China Earth Sciences, 2016, 59(9): 1720-1737.
Kuang W H, Liu J Y, Dong J W, et al. The rapid and massive urban and industrial land expansions in China between 1990 and 2010: A CLUD-based analysis of their trajectories, patterns and drivers. Landscape and Urban Planning, 2016, 145: 21-33.
Kuang W H, Dou Y Y, Chi W F, et al. Quantifying the heat flux regulation of metropolitan land-use/land-cover components by coupling remote sensing-modelling with in situ measurement. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 2015, 120(1): 113-130.
Kuang W H, Chi W F, Lu D S, et al. A comparative analysis of megacity expansions in China and the U.S.: patterns, rates and driving forces. Landscape and Urban Planning, 2014, 132: 121–135.
Kuang W H, Liu J Y, Zhang Z X, et al. Spatiotemporal dynamics of impervious surface areas across China during the early 21st century. Science Bulletin, 2013, 58(14): 1691-1701.
Kuang W H. Evaluating impervious surface growth and its impacts on water environment in Beijing-Tianjin-Tangshan Metropolitan Area. Journal of Geographical Sciences, 2012, 22(3): 535-547.
Kuang W H. Spatio-temporal patterns of intra-urban land use change in Beijing, China between 1984 and 2008. Chinese Geographical Science, 2012, 22(2): 210-220.
Kuang W H. Simulating dynamic urban expansion at regional scale in Beijing-Tianjin-Tangshan Metropolitan Area. Journal of Geographical Sciences, 2011, 21(2): 317-330.
Chi W F, Shi W J, Kuang W H. Spatio-temporal characteristics of intra-urban land cover in the cities of China and USA from 1978 to 2010. Journal of Geographical Sciences, 2015, 25(1): 3-18.
Cui Y P, Liu J Y, Hu Y F, Wang J B, Kuang W H. Modeling the radiation balance of different urban underlying surfaces. Science Bulletin, 2012, 57(9): 1046-1054.
Liu Y, Shintaro G, Zhuang D F, Kuang W H. Urban surface heat fluxes infrared remote sensing inversion and their relationship with land use types. Journal of Geographical Sciences, 2012, 22(4): 699-715.
Dong J W, Kuang W H, Liu J Y. Continuous land cover change monitoring in the remote sensing big data era. Science China Earth Sciences, 2017, 60, 2223-2224. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11430-017-9143-3
Pan T, Lu D S, Zhang C, Chen X, Shao H, Kuang W H, Chi W F, Liu Z J, Du G M, Cao L Z. Urban Land-Cover Dynamics in Arid China Based on High-Resolution Urban Land Mapping Products. Remote Sensing, 2017, 9:730.
Guo W, Lu D S, Kuang W H. Improving Fractional Impervious Surface Mapping Performance through Combination of DMSP-OLS and MODIS NDVI Data. Remote Sensing, 2017, 9(4): 374-390.
Yang Z Q, Dong J W, Liu J Y, Zhai J, Kuang W H, Zhao G S, Zhou Y, Qin Y W, Xiao X M. Accuracy Assessment and Inter-Comparison of Eight Medium Resolution Forest Products on the Loess Plateau, China. International Journal of Geo-Information, 2017, 6(5): 152.
Yan Y, Zhang C, Hu Y F, Kuang W H. Urban Land-Cover Change and Its Impact on the Ecosystem Carbon Storage in a Dryland City. Remote Sensing, 2016, 8, 6.
Sun F Y, Kuang W H, Xiang W N, Che Y. Mapping Water Vulnerability of the Yangtze River Basin: 1994–2013. Environmental Management, 2016(58): 857–872. (IF=1.878)
Yan F Q, Zhang S W, Kuang W H, Du G M, Chen J, Liu X T, Yu L X, Yang C B. Comparison of Cultivated Landscape Changes under Different Management Modes: A Case Study in Sanjiang Plain. Sustainability, 2016, 8: 1071.
Yan H M, Ji Y Z, Liu J Y, Liu F, Hu Y F, KuangW H. Potential promoted productivity and spatial patterns of medium- and low-yield cropland land in China. Journal of Geographical Sciences, 2016, 26(3): 259-271.
Liu J Y, Shao Q Q, Yan X D, Fan J W, Zhan J Y, Deng X Z, Kuang W H, Huang L.The climatic impacts of land use and land cover change compared among countries. Journal of Geographical Sciences, 2016, 26(7): 889-903.
Shi W J, Hu Y F, Shi X L, Wang Z, Yan H M, Xu Z W, Ren B, Kuang W H, Xu X L, Cheng W M, Chen Y, Wu D B. Strategic transformation of regionalization for the agricultural comprehensive development: The example of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in China. Journal of Geographical Sciences, 2016, 26(12): 1675-1688.
Li L W, Lu D S, Kuang W H. Examining Urban Impervious Surface Distribution and Its Dynamic Change in Hangzhou Metropolis. Remote Sensing, 2016, 8, 265.
Yan Y, Kuang W H, Zhang C, et al. Impacts of impervious surface expansion on soil organic carbon: A spatially explicit study. Scientific Reports, 2015, 5.
Zhao G S, Liu J Y, Kuang W H, et al. Disturbance impacts of land use change on biodiversity conservation priority areas across China: 1990-2010. Journal of Geographical Sciences, 2015, 25(5):515-529.
Wang R Y, Kalin L, Kuang W H, Tian H Q. Individual and combined effects of land use/cover and climate change on Wolf Bay watershed stream flow in southern Alabama. Hydrological Process, 2014, 28(22): 5530–5546.
Shi W J, Tao F L, Liu J Y, Xu X L, Kuang W H, et al. Has climate change driven spatio-temporal changes of cropland in northern China since the 1970s?. Climatic Change, 2014, 124(1-2): 163-177.
Liu J Y, Kuang W H, Zhang Z X, et al. Spatiotemporal characteristics, patterns, and causes of land-use changes in China since the late 1980s. Journal of Geographical Sciences, 2014, 24(2): 195-210.
Lu D S, Li G Y, Kuang W H, et al. Methods to extract impervious surface areas from satellite images. International Journal of Digital Earth, 2014, 7(2): 93-112.
Lu D S, Li G Y, Moran E, Kuang W H. A comparative analysis of approaches for successional vegetation classification in the Brazilian Amazon. GIScience & Remote Sensing, 2014, 51 (6): 695-709.
Fan Z M, Zhang X, Li J, Yue T X, Liu J Y, Xiang B, Kuang W H. Land-cover changes of national nature reserves in China, Journal of Geographical Sciences, 2013,23(2):258-270.
Shao Q Q, Sun C Y, Liu J Y, He J F, Kuang W H, et al. Impact of urban expansion on meteorological observation data and overestimation to regional air temperature in China. Journal of Geographical Sciences, 2011, 21(6): 994-1006.
Dong J W, Liu J Y, Yan H M, Tao F L, Kuang W H. Spatio-temporal pattern and rationality of land reclamation and cropland abandonment in mid-eastern Inner Mongolia of China in 1990–2005. Environmental Monitoring Assessment, 2011, 179:137-153.
Shao Q Q, Huang L, Liu J Y, Kuang W H, et al. Analysis of forest damage caused by the snow and ice chaos along a transect across southern China in spring 2008. Journal of Geographical Sciences, 2011, 21(2): 219-234.
Liu J Y, Zhang Z X, Xu X L, Kuang W H, et al. Spatial patterns and driving forces of land use change in China during the early 21st century. Journal of Geographical Sciences, 2010, 20(4): 483-494.
Patents
A spatially-explicit multi-functional urban land information generation method with high resolution remote sensing images. ZL 2011 1 0376725.7. 2013.
A spatial transformation method on multi-scales of spatial prediction and simulation of land use for planning and management. ZL 2011 1 0376732.7. 2015.
Conferences
(1)Spatio-temporal pattern of urban landscape in Asia and the implementation for Maritime Silk Road Kuang wenhui 2015-11-25
(2)Impacts of urban impervious surface areas and greenness on surface heat regulation in urban ecosystem Kuang wenhui 2015-06-10
(3)Urban expansion and the effects on heat island Kuang wenhui 2015-04-21
(4)Urban expansion and its impact on heat flux across China Kuang Wenhui 2012-06-01
(5)Urban Land Use Changes and Their Environmental Impacts inBeijing-Tianjin-Tangshan Agglomeration Areas(BTTAA) Kuang Wenhui 2011-10-09
(6)An Analysis of Temporal Evolution of NDVI in Various Vegetation-Climate Regions in Inner Mongolia, China Cui, Yaoping,Liu, Jiyuan,Hu, Yunfeng,Kuang, Wenhui,Xie, Zhenglei 2011-09-20
(7)The Local Climate and Energy Budget Differences between a Typical Architectural Complex and a Green Park in Beijing Cui, Yaoping,Liu, Jiyuan,Kuang, Wenhui,Wang, Junbang 2011-09-20
(8)Research Platform on National Land Use/Cover Change(LUCC) of China And Its Applications In Land System Science Kuang Wenhui 2011-05-31
(9)Methodology of classifying and detecting intra-urban land use change: A case study of Changchun city during the last 100 years Kuang Wenhui 2010-10-15
(10)Detection of meteorological stations underlying surface change based on RS and analysis of its influence on air temperature change in China Geoscience and Remote Sensing IEEE International Symposium - IGASS Sun Chaoyang,Shao Quanqin,Liu Jiyuan,Kuang Wenhui 2010-06-25
Students
已指导学生
刘爱琳 硕士研究生 070503-地图学与地理信息系统
杨天荣 硕士研究生 070503-地图学与地理信息系统
陈馨 硕士研究生 070503-地图学与地理信息系统
李孝永 硕士研究生 070503-地图学与地理信息系统
李智礼 硕士研究生 070503-地图学与地理信息系统
张澍 硕士研究生 070503-地图学与地理信息系统
现指导学生
侯亚丽 硕士研究生 070503-地图学与地理信息系统