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Sciences and Exploration Directorate

Qiang Zhou

(RESEARCH SCIENTIST)

Qiang Zhou's Contact Card & Information.
Email: qiang.zhou@nasa.gov
Org Code: 618
Address:
NASA/GSFC
Mail Code 618
Greenbelt, MD 20771
Employer: SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC

Missions & Projects

Brief Bio


Dr. Zhou works as a Remote Sensing Scientist in the Biospheric Sciences Laboratory (code 618). He is interested in satellite-data-based land cover mapping, time series analysis, and machine learning.

Current Projects


Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2

Remote Sensing

Selected Publications


Refereed

2025. "The Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 version 2.0 surface reflectance dataset." Remote Sensing of Environment 324 114723 [10.1016/j.rse.2025.114723] [Journal Article/Letter]

2025. "Towards Seamless Global 30-meter Terrestrial Monitoring: Evaluating 2022 Cloud Free Coverage of Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 (HLS) V2.0." IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters 1-1 [10.1109/lgrs.2025.3533923] [Journal Article/Letter]

2024. "A Pilot Study of 10-Day Composites From the NASA Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 Images for Terrestrial Monitoring." IGARSS 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium 6864-6866 [10.1109/igarss53475.2024.10641064] [Proceedings]

2017. "Relationships between vegetation indices, fractional cover retrievals and the structure and composition of Brazilian Cerrado natural vegetation." International Journal of Remote Sensing 38 (3): 874--905 [Journal Article/Letter]

2016. "Dynamics of the relationship between NDVI and SWIR32 vegetation indices in southern Africa: implications for retrieval of fractional cover from MODIS data." International Journal of Remote Sensing 37 (6): 1476--1503 [Journal Article/Letter]

2016. "Retrieving understorey dynamics in the Australian tropical savannah from time series decomposition and linear unmixing of MODIS data." International Journal of Remote Sensing 37 (6): 1445--1475 [Journal Article/Letter]