Assistant Professor
Geography

Dow Science Complex 281
989-774-2675
zheng1t@cmich.edu

Education

Ph.D., Geography, University of Maryland, 2007
B.S., Material Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, 1996

Research Expertise

• Remote sensing of coastal wetland
• Remote sensing of land surface processes
• Lidar remote sensing
• Earth surface radiation

Current Research Projects

Coastal watershed wetland of Lake Huron on Michigan’s Lower Peninsula is a region of environmental, biological, social and economical significance. But, this region is also facing numerous environmental challenges, including coastal erosion, and threats to coastal wetlands and wildlife habitat. In an attempt to provide scientific data to address these challenges, we are acquiring airborne Lidar data covering three counties in along Saginaw Bay on Lake Huron shoreline. The three counties covers an area of 3,578 square kilometers, and it includes substantial amount of coastal wetlands and state designated high risk coastal erosion areas.

Selected Publications

• Wang, D., S. Liang, R. Liu, and T. Zheng, (2010), Estimation of daily-integrated PAR from sparse satellite observations: Comparison of temporal scaling methods, International Journal of Remote Sensing. 31(6): 1661-1677.
• Zheng, T., S. Liang., K. Wang, (2008), Estimation of incident Photosynthetically Active Radiation from GOES visible imagery. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. 47(3):853-868.
• Liu, R., S. Liang, H. He, J. Liu, and T. Zheng, (2008), Mapping Photosynthetically Active Radiation from MODIS Data in China. Remote Sensing of Environment. 112: 998-1009.
• Liang, S. T. Zheng,  D. Wang, K. Wang, R. Liu,  S. C. Tsay, S. Running, J. Townshend,  (2007) Mapping High-Resolution Incident Photosynthetically Active Radiation over Land from Polar-Orbiting and Geostationary Satellite Data, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing. 73(10):1085-1089.
• Liang, S. L., Zheng, T., Liu, R. G., Fang, H. L., Tsay, S. C., and Running, S., (2006), Estimation of incident photosynthetically active radiation from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer data. Journal of Geophysical Research, 111, D15208, doi:10.1029/2005JD006730.