Zhe Zhu 🌎🛰️

Our new @NatureGeosci study, led by @Shi60604194, reveals a major shift in what's reshaping the USA. After analyzing 35 years of satellite data, we found that while human-led disturbances are declining, "wild" forces are surging. Check our paper 👇 nature.com/articles/s4156…

Lakeshores support critical ecological and socioeconomic functions. How can we efficiently identify artificial vs. natural lakeshores and assess their utilization at large scales? RoLaSTIM answers, enabling consistent and scalable lakeshore monitoring. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Third PHD from GERS Laboratory! Congratulations Dr. Kexin Song. We are very fortunate to have you in the past five years and looking forward to your next chapter at Yale.

To Apply Please submit the following materials as a single PDF file to Dr. Zhe Zhu at: zhe@uconn.edu, in include (i) Cover Letter describing your research interests, qualifications and why you are interested. (ii) CV, and (iii) Contact Information for three references.

A new postdoctoral researcher position available in Remote Sensing & Global Environmental Change, at Global Environmental Remote Sensing (GERS) Laboratory Start Date: Flexible and the earliest date is Feb. 1st (Review begins in Dec. 20th) Salary Range: $62,232~$70,344

I am thrilled to announce the release of the python package "pyxccd" for latest CCDC algorithm (COLD) and its state-space form (S-CCD), supporting CCDC-like analysis for any band combination and any sensor. @GERSLab $pip install pyxccd Tutorial: pyxccd.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Art or science? GERS Laboratory is proud to contributing to this beautiful cover.

Our US disturbance paper has been selected as the featured cover paper for Volume 18, Issue 10, October 2025 (lnkd.in/e7-pSCPu), by Nature Geoscience. We have seen many photo or satellite image-based covers, but using remotely sensed thematic maps is rare.

I'm thrilled to share that my first RSE paper, the Time-series Image Fusion (TIF) algorithm is published online! 🔗 Read the [paper]: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… 💻 Explore the [code]: github.com/GERSL/TIF More on threads..

This piece provides a lot of background information on how this work was started and the major challenge we have gone through (temporal consistency!), as well as the vital support from the USGS-NASA Landsat Science Team. @Shi60604194

Article: Direct human impact on land disturbances in the US is declining, while less controllable undirected wild disturbances are increasing @Shi60604194 @GERSLab nature.com/articles/s4156…

A 40-year satellite study led by UConn @GERSLab director Zhe Zhu of the Department of Natural Resources & the Environment reveals disturbances from logging and construction are waning, but events like mega-fires and extreme storms are becoming more common today.uconn.edu/2025/09/uconn-…

Finally, the second version of Comprehensive Remote Sesing book series is done. If you are teaching remote sensing image processing or are interested in this topic, you can read the second volume edited by me, in which we provided lots of classical and new techniques.

The next Landsat vs Landsat Next. The Landsat Science Team’s perspective is all in this preprint. “The next Landsat: Mission turning point?” papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Congratulations on Falu Hong’s successful PhD defense! Nice work and looking forward to our future collaborations, Dr Hong!

👀 "The #LandsatNext project is currently assessing alternate mission architectures to support more affordable ways to maintain the continuity of #Landsat imagery per the language in the FY26 President’s Budget Request (PBR). Updates will be forthcoming." landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/satellites/lan…

Great opportunity if you are studying urban science using remote sensing data!

Kelp forests on the coast of Maine are in decline owing to rapid ocean warming and are being replaced by turf algae, which alter the ecosystem’s chemistry, hindering the recovery of kelp forests. Learn more in this week's issue of Science: scim.ag/43prS6n

Congratulations Tian Li! PhD is a long journey, hope you enjoyed this one and will have an even more exciting one aligned ahead.

📢#callforresearchassistantprofessors! RCAIG of LSGI in #PolyU: RAP posts under Prof.@Qihao_Weng 1.#ClimateResilience #ResilientCommunities #ClimateChange #Geomatics 2.#ResilientCities #UrbanScience #UrbanClimate 📌Details: jobs.polyu.edu.hk/job_detail.php……… jobs.polyu.edu.hk/job_detail.php…