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Ning Zhang
Department of Geography
Derby Hall 1131
Ohio State U
niversity
Columbus, Ohio, 43210
Email: [email protected]
Education
2013 Ph.D., Cartography and GIS, Peking University, Beijing, China.
2008
B.E., Geographic Information System, Chang’an University, Shaanxi, China.
Research Interests
Drought Monitoring and Water
Resources Management
Applied Climatology
Agricultural Remote Sensing on Crop
Monitoring and Yield Estimation
Geographic Information Science
Professional Experience
2016- present
Department of Geography, Ohio State University, Graduate research assistant
2015- 2016
Department of Geography, Texas A&M University, Graduate research assistant
2013- 2014
Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth (RADI), Chinese Academy of
Sciences (CAS), Research assistant
2011-2012
Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing Laboratory at the National Weather
Center, Norman, Oklahoma, Joint PhD student
2009-2011
Quantitative Remote Sensing Summer School, Peking University, Course
assistance
2008-2013
School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Graduate research
assistant
Publications
[1] Ning Zhang, Chen Zhao, Steven Quiring, Jinlin Li. (2017). Winter wheat yield prediction using
NDVI and agro-climate parameters in Oklahoma. Agronomy Journal. doi:
10.2134/agronj2017.03.0133
[2] Ning Zhang, Steven Quiring, Tyson Ochsner, Trenton Ford. (2017). Comparison of three methods
for vertical extrapolation of soil moisture in Oklahoma. Vadose Zone Journal. doi:
10.2136/vzj2017.04.0085
[3] René Gommes, Bingfang Wu, Ning Zhang, Xueliang Feng, Hongwei Zeng, Zhongyuan Li, Bo
Chen. (2016). CropWatch agroclimatic indicators (CWAIs) for weather impact assessment on
global agriculture. International Journal of Biometeorology. 1-7, doi:10.1007/s00484-016-1199-7
[4] Ning Zhang. (2016) Chapter 2: Crop Yield Forecasting in China in Crop Yield Forecasting:
Methodological and Institutional Aspects (pp.53-82). Food and Agriculture Organization of The
United Nations, Rome
[5] Bingfang Wu, René GOMMES, Miao Zhang, Hongwei Zeng, Nana Yan, Wentao Zou, Yang Zheng,
Ning Zhang, Sheng Chang, Qiang Xing, Anna van Heijden. (2015) Global Crop Monitoring: A
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Satellite-Based Hierarchical Approach. Remote Sensing. 7(4), 3907-3933.
[6] Ning Zhang, Yang Hong, Qiming Qin, Lu Liu. (2013). VSDI: A Visible and Shortwave Infrared
Drought Index for monitoring soil and vegetation moisture based on optical remote sensing.
International Journal of Remote Sensing, 34 (13): 4585-4609
[7] Ning Zhang, Yang Hong, Qiming Qin, Lin Zhu. (2013). Evaluation of the visible and shortwave
infrared drought index in China. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science. 4(2): 68-76
[8] Ning Zhang, Qiming Qin, Lian He, Hongbo Jiang. (2012). Remote sensing and GIS based
geothermal exploration in southwest Tengchong, China. 2012 IEEE International Geoscience and
Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2012): 5364-5367
[9] Qiming Qin, Ning Zhang, Peng Nan, Leilei Chai. (2011). Geothermal area detection using
Landsat ETM+ thermal infrared data and its mechanistic analysis - A case study in Tengchong,
China. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 13(4): 552-559
[10] Qiming Qin; Chuan Jin; Ning Zhang; Xuebin Yang. (2010). An two-dimensional spectral space
based model for Drought monitoring and its re-examination, 2010 IEEE International Geoscience
and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2010): 3869-3872
Conference Presentations
Poster on “Methods on root-zone soil moisture estimation using surface
measurements” in the 2017 Workshop at MOISST: Integrating Diverse Sources of Soil
Moisture Information, Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA.
Oral presentation on “Study on Vertical Extrapolation of Soil Moisture
Measurements” in the 2017 American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual
Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Poster on “Comparison of Three Methods for Vertical Interpolation of Soil Moisture”
in the 2016 American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Fall Meeting, San Francisco,
California, USA
Poster on “Soil Moisture-Based Drought Monitoring for the South Central Region” in
the 2016 Workshop at MOISST: The Growing Science of Soil Moisture Sensing,
Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA
Oral presentation on “Winter wheat yield prediction based on NDVI and climate
parameters in Oklahoma” in the Third Annual Symposium of the Association Of
Geography Graduate Students (AGGS) Symposium, Texas A& M University, Texas,
USA.
Oral presentation on “Comparison of different methods in root-zone soil moisture
estimation using surface measurements” in Student Research Week, Texas A&M
University, Texas, USA.
Poster on “Update on Remote Sensing Based Global Agricultural Monitoring With
CropWatch” in Global Vegetation Monitoring and Modeling, Avignon, France;
Oral presentation on “Remote sensing and GIS based geothermal exploration in
southwest Tengchong, China.”, IGARSS 2012 in Munich, Germany;
Oral presentation on “An two-dimensional spectral space based model for Drought
monitoring and its re-examination”, 2010 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote
Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2010) in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA;