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2023

Simulating the spatial impacts of a coastal barrier in Galveston Island, Texas: a three-dimensional urban modeling approach

Zhenhang Cai, Galen Newman, Jaekyung Lee, Xinyue Ye, David Retchless, Lei Zou, Youngjib Ham

Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk

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FF-IR: An information retrieval system for flash flood events developed by integrating public-domain data and machine learning

Rohan Singh Wilkho, Nasir G Gharaibeh, Shi Chang, Lei Zou

Environmental Modelling & Software

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Developing Human-Centered Urban Digital Twins for Community Infrastructure Resilience: A Research Agenda

Xinyue Ye, Jiaxin Du, Yu Han, Galen Newman, David Retchless, Lei Zou, Youngjib Ham, Zhenhang Cai

Journal of Planning Literature

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Special issue on geospatial artificial intelligence

Song Gao, Yingjie Hu, Wenwen Li, Lei Zou

GeoInformatica

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Environmental, climatic, and situational factors influencing the probability of fatality or injury occurrence in flash flooding: a rare event logistic regression predictive model

Shi Chang, Rohan Singh Wilkho, Nasir Gharaibeh, Garett Sansom, Michelle Meyer, Francisco Olivera, Lei Zou

Natural Hazards

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Social media for emergency rescue: An analysis of rescue requests on Twitter during Hurricane Harvey

Lei Zou, Danqing Liao, Nina SN Lam, Michelle A Meyer, Nasir G Gharaibeh, Heng Cai, Bing Zhou, Dongying Li

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

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A Machine Learning Approach for Detecting Rescue Requests from Social Media

Zheye Wang, Nina SN Lam, Mingxuan Sun, Xiao Huang, Jin Shang, Lei Zou, Yue Wu, Volodymyr V. Mihunov

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on travel behavior: A case study of domestic inbound travelers in Jeju, Korea

Mengyao Ren, Sangwon Park, Yang Xu, Xiao Huang, Lei Zou, Man Sing Wong, Sun-Young Koh

Tourism Management

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Impact of Land Use/Land Cover Change on Landslide Susceptibility in Rangamati Municipality of Rangamati District, Bangladesh

Yasin Wahid Rabby, Yingkui Li, Joynal Abedin, Sabiha Sabrina

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

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Crowdsourced geospatial data in human and Earth observations: opportunities and challenges

Xiao Huang, Xiao Li, Di Yang, Lei Zou

Geoinformatics for Geosciences

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2022

VictimFinder: Harvesting rescue requests in disaster response from social media with BERT

Bing Zhou, Lei Zou, Ali Mostafavi, Binbin Lin, Mingzheng Yang, Nasir Gharaibeh, Heng Cai, Joynal Abedin, Debayan Mandal

Computers, Environment and Urban Systems

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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on travel behavior: A case study of domestic inbound travelers in Jeju, Korea

Mengyao Ren, Sangwon Park, Yang Xu, Xiao Huang, Lei Zou, Man Sing Wong, Sun-Young Koh

Tourism Management

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Revealing the Global Linguistic and Geographical Disparities of Public Awareness to Covid-19 Outbreak through Social Media

Binbin Lin, Lei Zou, Nick Duffield, Ali Mostafavi, Heng Cai, Bing Zhou, Jian Tao, Mingzheng Yang, Debayan Mandal, Joynal Abedin

International Journal of Digital Earth

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Spatial-temporal land loss modeling and simulation in a vulnerable coast: a case study in coastal Louisiana

Mingzheng Yang, Lei Zou, Heng Cai, Yi Qiang, Binbin Lin, Bing Zhou, Joynal Abedin, Debayan Mandal

Remote Sensing

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Incorporating neighborhood scale effects into land loss modeling using semivariograms

Heng Cai, Nina SN Lam, Lei Zou

Journal of Geographical Systems 

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Editorial for the Special Issue: “Human-Environment Interactions Research Using Remote Sensing”

Nina SN Lam, Heng Cai, Lei Zou

Remote Sensing

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Estimation of wheat tiller density using remote sensing data and machine learning methods

Jinkang Hu, Bing Zhang, Dailiang Peng, Ruyi Yu, Yao Liu, Chenchao Xiao, Cunjun Li, Tao Dong, Moren Fang, Huichun Ye, Wenjiang Huang, Binbin Lin, Mengmeng Wang, Enhui Cheng, Songlin Yang

Frontiers in Plant Science

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2021

Twitter Use in Hurricane Isaac and Its Implications for Disaster Resilience

Kejin Wang, Nina SN Lam, Lei Zou, Volodymyr Mihunov

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

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Sensing Population Distribution from Satellite Imagery via Deep Learning: Model Selection, Neighboring Effects, and Systematic Biases

Xiao Huang, Di Zhu, Fan Zhang, Tao Liu, Xiao Li, Lei Zou

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

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Exploring the eco-efficiency of cultivated land utilization and its influencing factors in China's Yangtze River Economic Belt, 2001–2018

Bin Yang, Zhanqi Wang, Lei Zou, Lilin Zou, Hongwei Zhang

Journal of Environmental Management

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Cyberinfrastructure and intelligent spatial decision support systems

Zhe Zhang, Lei Zou, Wenwen Li, Lynn Usery, Jochen Albrecht, Marc Armstrong

Transactions in GIS

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Social media for emergency rescue: an analysis of rescue requests on Twitter during Hurricane Harvey

Lei Zou, Danqing Liao, Nina SN Lam, Michelle Meyer, Nasir Gharaibeh, Heng Cai, Bing Zhou, Dongying Li

ArXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.07187 

The trend towards a warmer and wetter climate observed in arid and semi-arid areas of northwest China from 1959 to 2019

Shijun Zheng, Bing Zhang, Dailiang Peng, Le Yu, Binbin Lin, Yuhao Pan, and Qiaoyun Xie

Environmental Research Communications

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2020

Economics over Risk: Flooding is not the only driving factor of migration considerations on a vulnerable coast

Correll, R., Lam, N.S.N., Mihunov, V., Zou, L. and Cai, H

Annals of the American Association of Geographers

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Use of Twitter in Disaster Rescue: Lessons Learned from Hurricane Harvey

Mihunov, V., Lam, N.S.N., Zou, L., Wang, Z. and Wang, K

International Journal of Digital Earth

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2019

Remotely Sensed Big Data: evolution in model development for information extraction

Zhang, B., Benediktsson, J.A., Chen, Z., Peng, D., Liu, B., Zou, L., Li, J. and Plaza, A

Proceedings of the IEEE

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Social and geographical disparities of disaster resilience during Hurricane Harvey

Zou, L., Lam, N.S.N., Shams, S., Cai, H., Meyer, M.A., Yang, S., Lee, K., Park, S.J. and Reams, M.A.

International Journal of Digital Earth

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The relationship between the normalized difference vegetation index and drought indices in the south-central United States

Bushra, N., Rohli, R.V., Lam, N.S.N., Zou, L., Mostafiz, R.B. and Mihunov, V

Natural Hazards

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Assessing social vulnerability to flood hazards in the Dutch Province of Zeeland

Kirby, R., Reams, M.A., Lam, N.S.N., Zou, L., Dekker, G. and Fundter D.Q.P

International Journal of Disaster Risk Science

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Beyond big data: Social media challenges and opportunities for understanding social perception of energy

Li, R., Leifer, D., Schoof, J., Zou, L. and Crowe, J.

Energy Research & Social Science

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Emerging disparities in community resilience to drought hazard in south-central United States

Mihunov, V., Lam, N.S.N., Rohli, R.V., and Zou, L.

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

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Visualizing and mining social media data for smart emergency management

Lei Zou

29th International Cartographic Conference (ICC2019)

A framework for analyzing and visualizing Twitter use patterns during natural hazards

Zou, L., Lam, N.S.N. and Cai, H.

US National Report (US National Committee for the International Cartographic Association) (July 2019)

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Collaboration across boundaries: Reflections on studying the sustainability of the Mississippi river delta as a coupled natural-human system (book chapter)

Lam, N.S.N, Xu, Y.J., Pace, R.K., Liu, K.B., Qiang, Y., Narra, S., Bianchette, T.A., Cai, H., Zou, L., Li, K., Joshi, S. and Mihunov, V.

Across Boundaries for Interdisciplinary Environmental Systems Science: Experiences Around the World (eds: Stephen Prez and Palgrave Macmillion)

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Detecting climate change deniers on Twitter using a deep neural network

Chen, X., Zou, L. and Zhao, B.

ACM 11th International Conference on Machine Learning and Computing (ICMLC)

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2018

Mining Twitter data for improved understanding of disaster resilience

Zou, L., Lam, N.S.N., Cai, H. and Qiang, Y

Annals of the American Association of Geographers

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Effects of landscape fragmentation on land loss

Lam, N.S.N., Cheng, W.J., Zou, L., and Cai, H

Remote Sensing of Environment

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Modeling the dynamics of community resilience to coastal hazards using a Bayesian network.

Cai, H., Lam, N.S.N., Zou, L. and Qiang Y.

Annals of the American Association of Geographers

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Community resilience to drought hazard in South-central United States.

Mihunov, V., Lam, N.S.N., Zou, L., Rohli, R.V., Bushra, N., Reams, M.A., and Argote, J.E.

Annals of the American Association of Geographers

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A synthesis of disaster resilience measurement methods and indices

Cai, H. Lam, N.S.N., Qiang, Y., Zou, L., Correll, R. and Mihunov, V.

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

Extending resilience assessment to dynamic system modeling: perspectives on human dynamics and climate change research.

Lam, N.S.N., Qiang, Y., Li, K., Cai, H., Zou, L., and Mihunov, V.

Journal of Coastal Research

Understanding the Mississippi River Delta as a coupled natural-human system: research methods, challenges, and prospects

Lam, N.S.N., Xu, Y.J., Liu, K.B., Dismukes, D.E., Reams, M.A., Pace, R.K., Qiang, Y., Narra S., Li, K., Bianchette, T., Cai, H., Zou, L. and Mihunov, V.

Water

A cyberGIS-enabled multi-criteria spatial decision support system: A case study on flood emergency management

Zhang, Z., Hu, H., Yin, D., Kashem, S., Li, R., Cai, H., Perkins, D. and Wang, S.

International Journal of Digital Earth

2017 and before

Changes in exposure to flood hazards in the United States

Qiang, Y., Lam, N.S.N., Cai, H. and Zou, L.

Annals of the American Association of Geographers

Assessing community resilience to coastal hazards in the Lower Mississippi River Basin

Cai, H., Lam, N.S.N., Zou, L., Qiang, Y. and Li, K.

Water

Drought indices as drought predictors in the south-central USA

Rohli, R.V., Bushra, N., Lam, N.S.N., Zou, L., Mihunov, V., Reams, M.A. and Argote, J.E.

Natural Hazards

Analyzing spectral characteristics of water involving in-situ multi-angle polarized reflectance and extraction of water-leaving radiance

Shen, Q., Li, J., Zhang, B., Wu, Y., Zou, L. and Wu T.

Spectroscopy and Spectral Analysis

Evaluating land subsidence rates and their implications for land loss in the Lower Mississippi River Basin

Zou, L., Kent, J., Lam, N.S.N., Cai, H., Qiang, Y. and Li, K.

Water

A cyberinfrastructure for community resilience assessment and visualization

Li, K., Lam, N.S.N., Qiang, Y., Zou, L. and Cai, H.

Cartography and Geographic Information Science

Validation of a synthetic chlorophyll index for remote estimates of chlorophyll-a in a turbid hypereutrophic lake

Zhang, F., Zhang, B., Li, J., Shen, Q., Wu, Y., Wang, G., Zou, L. and Wang, S.

International Journal of Remote Sensing

A study on retrieval algorithm of black water aggregation in Taihu Lake based on HJ-1 satellite images

Zou, L., Zhang, B., Li, J., Shen, Q., Zhang, F. and Wang, G.L.

IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science

A comparative analysis of the ‘transmittance’ method between using integrating sphere and filter holders for measuring light absorption by aquatic particles

Zou, L., Zhang, B., Li, J., Song, Y., Shen, Q. and Li, L.

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2012 IEEE International

Monitoring water quality of Lake Taihu from HJ-CCD data using empirical models.

Li, J., Zhang, B., Shen, Q., Zou, L. and Li, L.

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2012 IEEE International

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Geospatial Exploration and Resolution (GEAR) Lab

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