General

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

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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


  1. 2016/1-2016/3: International visiting scholar in Michigan State University, Auburn University, and Oklahoma University
  2. 2012/12-Present: Associate professor in Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  3. 2009/12-2012/11: Research Assistant in Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  4. 2008/6-2009/1: International visiting scholar in Auburn University
  5. 2007/7-2009/11: Post-doctoral in Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences 




Honors & Distinctions

  1. 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)
  2. 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).
  3. Excellent science and Technology Award for China Society Natural Resources in 2017.
  4. Excellent author for the Journal of Geographical Sciences in 2016 and 2017.
  5. “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.
  6. 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

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. Kuang W H, Liu Y, Dou Y Y, et al. What are hot and what are not in an urban landscape: quantifying and explaining the land surface temperature pattern in Beijing, China. Landscape Ecology, 2015, 30(2): 357–373.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. Liu W C, Liu J Y, Kuang W H, et al. Examining the influence of the implementation of Major Function-oriented Zones on built-up area expansion in China. Journal of Geographical Sciences, 2017, 27(6): 643-660.

  13. 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.

  14. 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.

  15. 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.

  16. 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

  17. 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.

  18. 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.

  19. 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.

  20. 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.

  21. 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）

  22. 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.

  23. 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.

  24. 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.

  25. 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.

  26. 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.

  27. 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.

  28. 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.

  29. 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.

  30. 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.

  31. 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.

  32. 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.

  33. 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.

  34. 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.

  35. 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.

  36. 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.

  37.  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.

  38. 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


  1. A spatially-explicit multi-functional urban land information generation method with high resolution remote sensing images. ZL 2011 1 0376725.7. 2013.

  2. 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 in Beijing-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