Zhe Zhu 🌎🛰️

Associate Professor @UConnNRE, Director of Global Environmental Remote Sensing Laboratory, Associate & Special Issue Editors of RSE & SRS.

[Zhe Zhu 🌎🛰️ @GERSLab]

While total area loss is still dominated by gradual sea level rise, the acceleration of this loss is actually driven by extreme weather. Check out the our full paper in Nature Communications: https://t.co/xidLnCSt4i

[Yongquan Zhao @yqzhao18]

How have lakeshores changed over the past two decades? Are they related to water color variations? Nine typical plateau lakes show three transformation patterns, while their links to water color dynamics vary with lake-specific contexts. See our new paper: https://t.co/sago0sUL3j

[UConn CAHNR @UConnCAHNR]

This unique study provides clearer guidelines for understanding how well forests resist and recover from stressors like drought, fire, or human disturbances

https://t.co/3UJmaqNStp

[Zhe Zhu 🌎🛰️ @GERSLab]

Can satellite really map forest resilience from space? Yes and no. GERS Laboratory PhD student Kexin Song (currently Postdoc at Yale U) provides the complete answer in a new paper in Nature Ecology & Evolution.

[Kexin Song @kexinsong_]

🎉 Excited to share that our work is published in Nature Ecology & Evolution!

We link Landsat observations with field data from nine Amazon forest plots and 114 tree species, providing long-awaited evidence for one of the most widely used resilience metrics.

Read more...

[Zhe Zhu 🌎🛰️ @GERSLab]

Measure Urban Pulse from Space. https://t.co/todKxqY1wK

[UConn CAHNR @UConnCAHNR]

A new framework developed by researchers at UConn and Yale uses high-frequency satellite data to track the vital signs of global cities in near real-time, fundamentally changing how we understand urbanization.

https://t.co/wnOh1hD4yn

[Zhe Zhu 🌎🛰️ @GERSLab]

Scientists can now measure the “urban pulse” from space, via @EurekAlert! @@UConn https://t.co/YQtSTwXdbP

[UConn CAHNR @UConnCAHNR]

A new study from researchers in the @GERSLab in the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment found that tidal wetland areas have been shrinking globally and the loss is accelerating in the U.S., driven by extreme weather events.

https://t.co/UXQg6eDnMm

[Zhe Zhu 🌎🛰️ @GERSLab]

AI takes whatever they can get, but humans are the ones that makes decisions and takes responsibilities.

[nature @Nature]

This researcher created a fictional illness, and fake studies funded by the Professor Sideshow Bob Foundation and University of the Fellowship of the Ring and the Galactic Triad.

LLMs warned people the illness was real.

https://t.co/3sFc9cTD6J

[nature @Nature]

Nature research paper: Satellite imagery reveals increasing volatility in human night-time activity

https://t.co/CaQ6ZobKUI

[Zhe Zhu 🌎🛰️ @GERSLab]

New GERS Laboratory study shows that global artificial nighttime light is getting more volatile based on daily Black Marble data. You can check our paper here: https://t.co/1LltSSsbwL

NASA has also made some nice videos to visualize our results here: https://t.co/KdvJrN5Wwf

[Yongquan Zhao @yqzhao18]

Can image fusion really improve downstream tasks? Yes! Better fusion yields better applications.
Our #RSE paper introduces RASSFM 2.0, an enhanced MS-to-MS fusion model newly defined as M2Msharpening, that delivers advanced 3-m land cover classification.
https://t.co/QVRQYqa7uK

[Yongquan Zhao @yqzhao18]

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.
https://t.co/1HEggiVlLV

[Zhe Zhu 🌎🛰️ @GERSLab]

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.

[Zhe Zhu 🌎🛰️ @GERSLab]

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

[Zhe Zhu 🌎🛰️ @GERSLab]

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

[SU YE @SuYe999]

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: https://t.co/hUw4ifHnb8

[Zhe Zhu 🌎🛰️ @GERSLab]

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

[Nature Geoscience @NatureGeosci]

October issue out now: including content on soil nitrogen loss from thawing permafrost, oceanic plate delamination, land disturbances in the USA, and more!

https://t.co/8odRJf6TdV

[Zhe Zhu 🌎🛰️ @GERSLab]

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

[Kexin Song @kexinsong_]

I'm thrilled to share that my first RSE paper, the Time-series Image Fusion (TIF) algorithm is published online!

🔗 Read the [paper]: https://t.co/pus4mNUtJb
💻 Explore the [code]: https://t.co/FlcZp2Zaz3

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