Hankui K. Zhang

4.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
76 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Hankui K. Zhang is a scholar working on Ecology, Media Technology and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Hankui K. Zhang has authored 76 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Ecology, 31 papers in Media Technology and 29 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Hankui K. Zhang's work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (47 papers), Remote-Sensing Image Classification (26 papers) and Advanced Image Fusion Techniques (18 papers). Hankui K. Zhang is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing in Agriculture (47 papers), Remote-Sensing Image Classification (26 papers) and Advanced Image Fusion Techniques (18 papers). Hankui K. Zhang collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Hong Kong. Hankui K. Zhang's co-authors include David P. Roy, Lin Yan, Bo Huang, Haiyan Huang, Zhongbin Li, Jian Li, Calli B. Jenkerson, Brian Sauer, Leo Lymburner and John L. Dwyer and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Remote Sensing of Environment and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Hankui K. Zhang

69 papers receiving 3.2k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Characterization of Sentinel-2A and Landsat-8 top of atmosphere, surface, and nadir BRDF adjusted reflectance and NDVI differences

2018 289 citations Hankui K. Zhang, David P. Roy et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
Analysis Ready Data: Enabling Analysis of the Landsat Archive

2018 284 citations David P. Roy, Hankui K. Zhang et al. Remote Sensing profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Hankui K. Zhang United States	31	2.0k	1.4k	1.1k	890	719	76	3.3k
Philippe Martimort Netherlands	9	1.9k 1.0×	1.3k 0.9×	1.2k 1.1×	702 0.8×	636 0.9×	24	3.3k
Claudia Isola Netherlands	8	1.8k 0.9×	1.3k 0.9×	1.1k 1.0×	677 0.8×	624 0.9×	16	3.2k
Paolo Laberinti Netherlands	4	1.8k 0.9×	1.2k 0.9×	1.1k 1.0×	658 0.7×	598 0.8×	8	3.1k
Bianca Hoersch Italy	4	1.8k 0.9×	1.3k 0.9×	1.1k 1.0×	667 0.7×	616 0.9×	9	3.2k
François Spoto Netherlands	8	1.9k 1.0×	1.3k 0.9×	1.2k 1.1×	694 0.8×	627 0.9×	14	3.3k
Franco Marchese Germany	3	1.7k 0.9×	1.2k 0.8×	1.1k 1.0×	641 0.7×	580 0.8×	6	3.0k
Elisabeth A. Addink Netherlands	24	1.4k 0.7×	885 0.6×	792 0.7×	794 0.9×	584 0.8×	56	2.8k
Omar Sy Netherlands	4	1.8k 0.9×	1.2k 0.9×	1.1k 1.0×	679 0.8×	606 0.8×	7	3.2k
Meisam Amani Iran	32	1.9k 1.0×	2.1k 1.5×	1.4k 1.3×	630 0.7×	878 1.2×	98	4.1k
Bahram Salehi Canada	34	2.4k 1.2×	2.5k 1.7×	1.8k 1.6×	936 1.1×	823 1.1×	101	4.8k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hankui K. Zhang

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All Works

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Lu, Lizhen, et al.. (2025). Large-scale mapping of plastic-mulched land from Sentinel-2 using an index-feature-spatial-attention fused deep learning model. Science of Remote Sensing. 11. 100188–100188. 2 indexed citations

Tran, Khuong H., Xiaoyang Zhang, Hankui K. Zhang, et al.. (2025). A transformer-based model for detecting land surface phenology from the irregular harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 time series across the United States. Remote Sensing of Environment. 320. 114656–114656. 2 indexed citations

Lu, Lizhen, et al.. (2025). A review of remote sensing in coastal aquaculture: data, geographic hotspots, methods, and challenges. GIScience & Remote Sensing. 62(1).

Ju, Junchang, Qiang Zhou, David P. Roy, et al.. (2025). The Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 version 2.0 surface reflectance dataset. Remote Sensing of Environment. 324. 114723–114723. 12 indexed citations

Wang, Qunming, et al.. (2025). A TCN-Transformer Parallel model for reconstruction of a global, daily, spatially seamless FY-3B soil moisture dataset. Remote Sensing of Environment. 328. 114841–114841.

Fan, Bin, Hankui K. Zhang, Jingfeng Xiao, et al.. (2025). Estimating carbon fluxes over North America using a physics-constrained deep learning model. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 227. 551–569.

Huang, Haiyan, et al.. (2025). A global Swin-Unet Sentinel-2 surface reflectance-based cloud and cloud shadow detection algorithm for the NASA Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 (HLS) dataset. Science of Remote Sensing. 11. 100213–100213. 3 indexed citations

Liu, Hao, Hankui K. Zhang, Bo Huang, et al.. (2024). Reconstruction of seamless harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 (HLS) time series via self-supervised learning. Remote Sensing of Environment. 308. 114191–114191. 15 indexed citations

Gao, Shuai, Xiaoyang Zhang, Hankui K. Zhang, et al.. (2024). A new constant scattering angle solar geometry definition for normalization of GOES-R ABI reflectance times series to support land surface phenology studies. Remote Sensing of Environment. 315. 114407–114407. 2 indexed citations

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Guo, Shanxin, Min Li, Yuan‐Qing Li, et al.. (2024). The Improved U-STFM: A Deep Learning-Based Nonlinear Spatial-Temporal Fusion Model for Land Surface Temperature Downscaling. Remote Sensing. 16(2). 322–322. 8 indexed citations

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Zhou, Lifan, et al.. (2024). Multi-temporal InSAR evidence of non-tidal ocean loading effects from Chaoshan coastal plain, China. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 132. 104031–104031.

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Shen, Yu, Xiaoyang Zhang, Shuai Gao, et al.. (2023). Analyzing GOES-R ABI BRDF-adjusted EVI2 time series by comparing with VIIRS observations over the CONUS. Remote Sensing of Environment. 302. 113972–113972. 11 indexed citations

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Luo, Dong, Hankui K. Zhang, Rasmus Houborg, et al.. (2023). Utility of daily 3 m Planet Fusion Surface Reflectance data for tillage practice mapping with deep learning. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 7. 100085–100085. 6 indexed citations

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Zhang, Hankui K., et al.. (2022). MODIS Evapotranspiration Downscaling Using a Deep Neural Network Trained Using Landsat 8 Reflectance and Temperature Data. Remote Sensing. 14(22). 5876–5876. 3 indexed citations

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Egorov, Alexey, David P. Roy, Hankui K. Zhang, et al.. (2019). Landsat 4, 5 and 7 (1982 to 2017) Analysis Ready Data (ARD) Observation Coverage over the Conterminous United States and Implications for Terrestrial Monitoring. Remote Sensing. 11(4). 447–447. 50 indexed citations

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Roy, David P., Haiyan Huang, Luigi Boschetti, et al.. (2019). Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 burned area mapping - A combined sensor multi-temporal change detection approach. Remote Sensing of Environment. 231. 111254–111254. 192 indexed citations

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Li, Zhongbin, David P. Roy, Hankui K. Zhang, Éric Vermote, & Haiyan Huang. (2019). Evaluation of Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2A Aerosol Optical Depth Retrievals across Chinese Cities and Implications for Medium Spatial Resolution Urban Aerosol Monitoring. Remote Sensing. 11(2). 122–122. 47 indexed citations

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Li, Zhongbin, Hankui K. Zhang, David P. Roy, et al.. (2017). Landsat 15-m Panchromatic-Assisted Downscaling (LPAD) of the 30-m Reflective Wavelength Bands to Sentinel-2 20-m Resolution. Remote Sensing. 9(7). 755–755. 31 indexed citations

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Huang, Haiyan, David P. Roy, Luigi Boschetti, et al.. (2016). Separability Analysis of Sentinel-2A Multi-Spectral Instrument (MSI) Data for Burned Area Discrimination. Remote Sensing. 8(10). 873–873. 131 indexed citations

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Yan, Lin, David P. Roy, Hankui K. Zhang, Jian Li, & Haiyan Huang. (2016). An Automated Approach for Sub-Pixel Registration of Landsat-8 Operational Land Imager (OLI) and Sentinel-2 Multi Spectral Instrument (MSI) Imagery. Remote Sensing. 8(6). 520–520. 106 indexed citations

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