Research output
23 selected publications in data science, remote sensing, forestry, and information studies.
Chen, K., Paul, S. S., Shao, G., & Armstrong, S. (2026). "From pixels to policy: Eleven years of field-scale cover crop adoption and conservation program evaluation in an Indiana watershed." Journal of Environmental Management, 405, 129610.
Pontes-Lopes, A., Stark, S. C., Smith, M., Almeida, D. R. A., Shao, G., Sato, L., et al. (2026). "Fire in a Central Amazon forest: Lingering top canopy loss and initial understory regrowth revealed by repeated LiDAR." Forest Ecology and Management, 601, 123332.
Shao, G. (2026). "Teaching data science workshops in academic libraries: Insights from attendance patterns and topic preferences." The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 52(1), 103188.
Ou, B., Shao, G., Yang, B., & Fei, S. (2025). "FocalSR: Revisiting image super-resolution transformers with Fourier-transform cross attention layers for remote sensing image enhancement." Geomatica, 77(1), 100042.
Cai, J., Meng, K., Yang, B., & Shao, G. (2024). "Multimodal Remote Sensing Scene Classification Using VLMs and Dual-Cross Attention Networks." arXiv:2412.02531.
Atkins, J. W., et al. (2023). "Integrating forest structural diversity measurement into ecological research." Ecosphere, 14(9), e4633.
Shao, G., Fei, S., & Shao, G. (2023). "A Robust Stepwise Clustering Approach to Detect Individual Trees in Temperate Hardwood Plantations Using Airborne LiDAR Data." Remote Sensing, 15(5), 1241.
Smith, M. N., et al. (2023). "Diverse anthropogenic disturbances shift Amazon forests along a structural spectrum." Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 21(1), 24–32.
Tian Guo, Yaoze Liu, Gang Shao, Bernard Engel, Ashish Sharma, Lucy Marshall, Dennis Flanagan, Raj Cibin, Carlington Wallace, Kaiguang Zhao, "Improving probabilistic monthly water quantity and quality predictions using a simplified residual-based modeling approach." Environmental Modelling & Software, 2022.
Sungchan Oh, Jinha Jung, Guofan Shao, Gang Shao, Joey Gallion, Songlin Fei, "High-Resolution Canopy Height Model Generation and Validation Using USGS 3DEP LiDAR Data in Indiana, USA." Remote Sensing, 2022.
Tongxi Hu, Elizabeth Toman, Gang Chen, Gang Shao, Yuyu Zhou, Yang Li, Kaiguang Zhao, Yinan Feng, "Mapping fine-scale human disturbances in a working landscape with Landsat time series on Google Earth Engine." ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 2021.
Siyu Li, Yaoze Liu, Younggu Her, Jingqiu Chen, Tian Guo, Gang Shao, "Improvement of simulating sub-daily hydrological impacts of rainwater harvesting for landscape irrigation with rain barrels/cisterns in the SWAT model." Science of The Total Environment, 2021.
Gang Shao, Jenny Quintana, Wei Zakharov, Senay Purzer, Eunhye Kim, "Exploring potential roles of academic libraries in undergraduate data science education curriculum development." The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2021.
Tian Guo, Laura Johnson, Greg LaBarge, Chad Penn, Richard Stumpf, David Baker, Gang Shao, "Less agricultural phosphorus applied in 2019 led to less dissolved phosphorus transported to Lake Erie." Environmental Science & Technology, 2020.
Gang Shao, Scott Stark, Danilo Almeida, Marielle Smith, "Towards high throughput assessment of canopy dynamics: The estimation of leaf area structure in Amazonian forests with multitemporal multi-sensor airborne lidar." Remote Sensing of Environment, 2019.
Danilo Almeida, Scott Stark, Gang Shao, Juliana Schietti, Bruce Nelson, Carlos Silva, Eric Gorgens, Ruben Valbuena, Daniel Papa, Pedro Brancalion, "Optimizing the remote detection of tropical rainforest structure with airborne lidar: Leaf area profile sensitivity to pulse density and spatial sampling." Remote Sensing, 2019.
Tian Guo, Bernard Engel, Gang Shao, Jeffrey Arnold, Raghavan Srinivasan, James Kiniry, "Development and improvement of the simulation of woody bioenergy crops in the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT)." Environmental Modelling & Software, 2019.
Gang Shao, Guofan Shao, Songlin Fei, "Delineation of individual deciduous trees in plantations with low-density LiDAR data." International journal of remote sensing, 2019.
Gang Shao, Guofan Shao, Joey Gallion, Michael Saunders, Jane Frankenberger, Songlin Fei, "Improving Lidar-based aboveground biomass estimation of temperate hardwood forests with varying site productivity." Remote Sensing of Environment, 2018.
Gang Shao, Basil Iannone, Songlin Fei, "Enhanced forest interior estimations utilizing lidar-assisted 3D forest cover map." Ecological Indicators, 2018.
BP Pauli, PA Zollner, GS Haulton, G Shao, G Shao, "The simulated effects of timber harvest on suitable habitat for Indiana and northern long-eared bats." Ecosphere, 2015.
Tian Guo, Bernard Engel, Gang Shao, Jeffrey Arnold, Raghavan Srinivasan, James Kiniry, "Functional approach to simulating short-rotation woody crops in process-based models." BioEnergy Research, 2015.
Gang Shao, Benjamin Pauli, G Haulton, Patrick Zollner, Guofan Shao, "Mapping hardwood forests through a two-stage unsupervised classification by integrating Landsat Thematic Mapper and forest inventory data." Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, 2014.