Bingqing Liang

• Urban environment: urban impervious surface estimation, urban landscape mapping, urban land change detection at multiple spatial and temporal scales, scale-effect of census-based urban land surface temperature modeling, urban environmental quality assessment with the integration of remote sensing and GIS;

• Demographic and Social issues: scale-effect of census-based residential population estimation,  spatial analysis of foreclosure pattern in California;

• Natural Resource Management: the impact of Marcellus Shale gas drilling activities on water quality, the effect of land use and land cover change on water quality;

• Remote sensing and GIS algorithms validation, comparison, and application: fractals, spatial autocorrelation indexes, spatial metrics, texture, artificial neural network, object-oriented classification, scale effect examination based on multiple spatial, spectral, and temporal resolution.

Selected Grants and Awards Received (Total Support > $1 M)

• A Pilot Project to Update High Resolution Land Cover Dataset for Selected Iowa Counties (UNI 2022-23 Capacity Building Grant Competition, Co-PI, 2023 - Present)

• Modeling Solar Radiation Potential and Urban Heat Utilizing Mobile Sensors and Topographic Data (Iowa Energy Center, Competitive Grant Program, Co-PI, 2021 - Present)

• Integration of the Google Earth Engine Cloud-based Scientific Data & Analysis Platform across UNI Geography Department Geospatial Technology Courses (Iowa Space Grant Consortium, Curriculum Development Program, Co-PI, 2019 - 2020)

• MRI: Acquisition of a Hyperspectral Field Spectroradiometer to Enable Interdisciplinary Research (National Science Foundation, Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program, PI, 2018 - 2020)

• Implementing the Development of a Landscape of Building Energy Use for the City of Des Moines, Iowa (UNI Pre-Tenure Grant, PI, 2016 - 2017)

• Developing a Landscape of Building Energy Use for the City of Des Moines, Iowa (Iowa Energy Center, Opportunity Grant Program, Co-PI, 2016 - 2017)

• REU - Interdisciplinary Research Experience in Hyperspectral Imagine (National Science Foundation, Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Program, PI, 2014 - Current): link (http://www.geotree.uni.edu/en/reu/home/)

• Development of a Solar Potential Map and Web Mapping (Iowa Economic Development Authority, Co-PI, 2015 - 2016)

• Planning the Interdisciplinary Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Hyperspectral Imagine (UNI CSBS Summer Research Grant, PI, 2015)

• Planning and Implementing the Interdisciplinary Research Experience for Undergraduates in Hyperspectral imagine in Arlington, VA (Iowa NASA EPSCoR Travel Grant, PI, 2015)

• Characterizing Urban Landscape by Using Fractal-based Texture Information (UNI CSBS Summer Research Grant, PI, 2014)

• Assessing the Effects of Future Land Use/Land Cover Change on Surface Water Quality in Middle Cedar Watershed, Iowa (UNI CSBS Project Grant, PI, 2013 - 2014)

• Assessing the Effects of Historical and Future Land Use/Land Cover Change on Surface Water Quality in Middle Cedar Watershed, IA (UNI 2011-12 Large Scale Capacity Building Grant, PI, 2012-2013) 

• Teaching World Geography Online (UNI Summer Online Course Development Awards Grant, PI, 2012)