Amin Naboureh, Ph.D., is a Master’s Supervisor and Associate Researcher at the Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research focuses on remote sensing monitoring and the simulation of human–land systems.
Dr. Naboureh has published more than 50 papers in international peer-reviewed journals, including over 20 as first or corresponding author in leading journals in remote sensing and geoscience, such as International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, GIScience & Remote Sensing, Catena, and Scientific Data. His work has been recognized through several awards, including the Young Scientist Award from the International Society for Digital Earth, the Outstanding International Student and Graduate Awards from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Sichuan Province Foreign High-Level Talent Award. He has led several research projects, including projects supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Foreign Scholar Research Fund and the Sichuan Provincial Department of Science and Technology Foreign Expert R&D Program, as well as sub-projects under the NSFC International (Regional) Cooperation and Exchange Program.
Research Areas
Remote sensing monitoring and simulation of mountainous human land system
Publications
Papers
1. Naboureh, A., Li, A., Bian, J., Moharrami, M., Ebrahimy, H., Lei, G., ... & Amani, M. (2025a). Accuracies, discrepancies, and challenges of the 10 m global land cover products in mountains. GIScience & Remote Sensing, 62(1), 2556064.
2. Naboureh, A., Li, A., Ebrahimy, H., Bian, J., Azadbakht, M., Amani, M., ... & Nan, X. (2021). Assessing the effects of irrigated agricultural expansions on Lake Urmia using multi-decadal Landsat imagery and a sample migration technique within Google Earth Engine. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation , 105, 102607
3. Naboureh, A., Li, A., Bian, J., Lei, G., Nan, X., Zhang, Z., ... & Lin, X. (2024). Green space coverage versus air pollution: a cloud-based remote sensing data analysis in Sichuan, Western China. International Journal of Digital Earth, 17(1), 2383454.
4. Naboureh A, Li A, Bian J, Lei G, Nan X. Land cover dataset of the China Central-Asia West-Asia Economic Corridor from 1993 to 2018. Scientific Data , 2023, 10:728
5. Naboureh A, Li A, Bian J, Lei G. National Scale Land Cover Classification Using the Semiautomatic High-Quality Reference Sample Generation (HRSG) Method and an Adaptive Supervised Classification Scheme. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing , 2023, 16: 1858-1870.
6. Naboureh, A., Li, A., Bian, J., Lei, G., Nan, X., & Zhang, Z. (2025b). A Comprehensive Analysis of the Different Remote Sensing-Based Approaches for Surface Water Mapping in Mountainous Areas. Earth Systems and Environment, 1-21.
7. Naboureh, A., Bian, J., Lei, G., & Li, A. (2021). A review of land use/land cover change mapping in the China-Central Asia-West Asia economic corridor countries. Big Earth Data, 5(2), 237-257.
8. Naboureh, A., Li, A., Bian, J., Lei, G., & Amani, M. (2020). A hybrid data balancing method for classification of imbalanced training data within google earth engine: Case studies from mountainous regions. Remote Sensing , 12(20). 3301.
9. Naboureh, A., Ebrahimy, H., Azadbakht, M., Bian, J., & Amani, M. (2020). RUESVMs: An Ensemble Method to Handle the Class Imbalance Problem in Land Cover Mapping Using Google Earth Engine. Remote Sensing , 12(21), 3484.
10. Naboureh, A., Rezaei Moghaddam, M. H., Feizizadeh, B., & Blaschke, T. (2017). An integrated object-based image analysis and CA-Markov model approach for modeling land use/land cover trends in the Sarab plain. Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 10(12), 259.
Research Interests
Remote Sensing, Geoinformatic, Mountain, Land cover/use
Honors & Distinctions
- 2018 CAS-TWAS Scholarship for PhD Program
- Recongized as the Outstanding International Student Award of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2021
- Recongized the Outstanding International Graduate Award of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2022, and completed the doctor's degree with outstanding achievements
- Best Speech Award at the Beijing International Forum on Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals from September 6th to 8th, 2021
- Recived Certificate of Foreign High level Talents in Sichuan Province in December 2025
- ISDE-YSIN Young Scientist Award in 2026