Basic Introduction:

Associate professor (Tenured). Dr. Feng received his Ph.D. degree from Wuhan University, China. He is the recipient of the Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award of Hubei Province. He was a postdoctoral researcher of the University of South Florida during the period of 2015-2017, he also severed as a consultant for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the USA. He has been the PI/Co-PI of >10 funded projects, and his research interests include remote sensing of inland and coastal water environments, and how these environments are influenced by climate variability and human activities. He has published 80 peer-reviewed SCI papers, more than half of which were appeared in TOP journals, such as Nature, Remote Sensing of Environment, Journal of Geophysical Research, and Environmental Science & Technology. His publications have been cited by >3000 times by Google Scholar, with the highest one of >370 times (ESI indexed highly cited paper). His research has been highlighted by a number of domestic and international media and agencies, such as the CCTV of China, NASA, NOAA, IOCCG, etc.

Research Interests:

Remote sensing of the water environments- algorithm development and applications

Environmental changes of inland and coastal waters in response to climate variability and human activities

Satellite instrument design and radiometric calibration

Professional Experience:

2021.07-present, Associate Professor , School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, China

2017.09-2021.07, Assistant Professor, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, China

2015.01-2017.08, Post-Doctoral Associate, College of Marine Science, University of South Florida, USA

2016.10-2017.06, Associate Professor, Wuhan University, China

2013.07-2016.10, Assistant Professor, Wuhan University, China

Educational Background:

2008.09-2013.07, Ph.D. in the fields of Remote Sensing of the Environment & GIS application, State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

2010.10-2012.10, Exchange Ph.D. study program, College of Marine Science, University of South Florida, USA, supported by the Ministry of Education, China

2004.09-2008.07, Bachelor in Geographic information science and technology, Yangtze University, Hubei, China

Research Projects:

· Major project of National Natural Science Foundation of China, 41890851, key process of land sea interaction and ecological security regulation mechanism in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Bay area, January 2019-december 2023, under research, sub project leader;

· General project of National Natural Science Foundation of China, 41971304, analysis and correction of external interference factors of water color quantitative remote sensing in complex environment, presided over, 2020.1-2023.12;

· Special project of key fields of universities in Guangdong Province (new generation information technology), 2020zdzx3006, research on remote sensing monitoring technology of eutrophication in shallow lakes considering the impact of aquatic vegetation, presided over, 2021.1-2022.12;

· Shenzhen City supported the project to be funded, research on temporal and spatial changes of photosensitive water quality parameters of large lakes in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River under the influence of fishery development, presided over, 2021.1-2022.12;

· Shenzhen market project, jcyj20190809155205559, research on land proximity effect of water color remote sensing combined with physical simulation and satellite earth observation, presided over, 2020.5-2023.5;

· Shenzhen sustainable development project, R & D and application of algae rapid detection and air space integrated algal bloom early warning and forecasting technology in drinking water source reservoir, core participation, April 2020-march 2023

· Class a strategic leading science and technology project of Chinese Academy of Sciences, xda20060402, pan third pole environmental change and green silk road construction - climate and water resources change in Southeast Asia South Asia River region, January 2018 to December 2022, in research, participated in;

· National Natural Science Foundation general project, 41671338, remote sensing research on temporal and spatial patterns of dominant vegetation communities in Poyang Lake Wetland under changing "water depth" environment, presided over, 2017.1-2020.12;

· National Natural Science Foundation youth project, 41401388, remote sensing research on temporal and spatial dynamics of chlorophyll in Tongjiang Lake based on water optical characteristics zoning - Taking Poyang Lake as an example, 2015.1-2017.12.

Selected Journal papers:

Total: >80 peer-reviewed journal papers; Feng as first and corresponding author for 48 papers. Google Scholar Citation: 2998 h-index=29 (as of 07/03/2021). Underlined are students or post-docs.

1.  Feng, L.*, Dai, Y., Hou, X., Liu, J., & Zheng, C. (2021). Concerns on phytoplankton bloom trends in global lakes. Nature. 590, E35-E47 (Matters Arising Article)

2.  Dai. Y., Feng, L., Hou, X., (2021). An automatic classification algorithm for submerged aquatic vegetation in shallow lakes using Landsat imagery, Remote Sensing of Environment. 10.1016/j.rse.2021.112459

3.  冯炼.卫星遥感解译湖泊蓝藻水华的几个关键问题探讨. 湖泊科学, 2021, 33(3). DOI: 10.18307/2021.0301 （邀稿）

4.  Hou, X., Feng, L.*, Tang, J., Song, X., Liu, J., Zhang, Y., Wang, J., Xu, Y., Dai, Y., Zheng, Y., Zheng, C., & Bryan, B. (2020). Anthropogenic transformation of Yangtze Plain freshwater lakes: patterns, drivers and impacts. Remote Sensing of Environment, 248, 14

5.  Guan, Q., Feng, L.*, Hou, X., Schurgers, G., Zheng, Y., & Tang, J. (2020). Eutrophication changes in fifty large lakes on the Yangtze Plain of China derived from MERIS and OLCI observations. Remote Sensing of Environment, 246, 17

6.  Feng, L.*, Hou, X., & Zheng, Y. (2019). Monitoring and understanding the water transparency changes of fifty large lakes on the Yangtze Plain based on long-term MODIS observations. Remote Sensing of Environment, 221, 675-686

7.  Han, X., Feng, L.*, Hu, C., & Chen, X. (2018). Wetland changes of China's largest freshwater lake and their linkage with the Three Gorges Dam. Remote Sensing of Environment, 204, 799-811

8.  Hou, X., Feng, L.*, Duan, H., Chen, X., Sun, D., & Shi, K. (2017). Fifteen-year monitoring of the turbidity dynamics in large lakes and reservoirs in the middle and lower basin of the Yangtze River, China. Remote Sensing of Environment, 190, 107-121

9.  Feng, L., Han, X., Hu, C., & Chen, X. (2016). Four decades of wetland changes of the largest freshwater lake in China: Possible linkage to the Three Gorges Dam? Remote Sensing of Environment, 176, 43-55

10.  Feng, L., Li, J., Gong, W., Zhao, X., Chen, X., & Pang, X. (2016). Radiometric cross-calibration of Gaofen-1 WFV cameras using Landsat-8 OLI images: A solution for large view angle associated problems. Remote Sensing of Environment, 174, 56-68