Ning Lu

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
37 papers, 927 citations indexed

About

Ning Lu is a scholar working on Ecology, Environmental Engineering and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Ning Lu has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 927 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Ecology, 19 papers in Environmental Engineering and 14 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Ning Lu's work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (21 papers), Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (14 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (11 papers). Ning Lu is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing in Agriculture (21 papers), Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (14 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (11 papers). Ning Lu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and France. Ning Lu's co-authors include Weili Kou, Weiheng Xu, Leiguang Wang, Shaodong Huang, Xia Yao, Yan Zhu, Weixing Cao, Tao Cheng, Chao Wu and Fei Dai and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Remote Sensing of Environment and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Ning Lu

32 papers receiving 914 citations

Hit Papers

Assessment of spatial–temporal changes of ecological envi... 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 50 100 150 200
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.

  1. Assessment of spatial–temporal changes of ecological environment quality based on RSEI and GEE: A case study in Erhai Lake Basin, Yunnan province, China
    2021 249 citations Weiheng Xu, Ning Lu et al. Ecological Indicators profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ning Lu China 14 591 422 332 239 166 37 927
Yueming Hu China 13 368 0.6× 256 0.6× 251 0.8× 161 0.7× 163 1.0× 45 845
Jong‐Min Yeom South Korea 21 517 0.9× 429 1.0× 300 0.9× 218 0.9× 286 1.7× 77 1.0k
Mohsen Azadbakht Iran 17 432 0.7× 311 0.7× 396 1.2× 239 1.0× 226 1.4× 32 905
Yulin Zhan China 16 415 0.7× 333 0.8× 312 0.9× 174 0.7× 183 1.1× 71 942
Lamin R. Mansaray China 23 566 1.0× 426 1.0× 404 1.2× 307 1.3× 430 2.6× 46 1.3k
Sebastian Candiago Italy 8 460 0.8× 471 1.1× 315 0.9× 271 1.1× 55 0.3× 12 997
Wang Zhou United States 19 313 0.5× 416 1.0× 308 0.9× 259 1.1× 215 1.3× 52 1.2k
Filiz Bektaş Balçık Türkiye 13 318 0.5× 373 0.9× 250 0.8× 74 0.3× 144 0.9× 37 703
N. R. Patel India 19 538 0.9× 827 2.0× 232 0.7× 353 1.5× 192 1.2× 71 1.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Ning Lu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ning Lu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ning Lu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ning Lu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ning Lu based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Ning Lu. Ning Lu is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Zhu, Yongliang, Lixiang Zhang, Peng Li, et al.. (2025). sUAS-Based High-Resolution Mapping for the Habitat Quality Assessment of the Endangered Hoolock tianxing Gibbon. Forests. 16(2). 285–285. 2 indexed citations
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Liu, Yun, Weiheng Xu, Leiguang Wang, et al.. (2025). A new method of three-dimensional green volume retrieval and its applications in urban greenery evaluation. Ecological Indicators. 176. 113629–113629.
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Kou, Weili, et al.. (2025). Plant recognition and counting of Amorphophallus konjac based on UAV RGB imagery and deep learning. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. 235. 110352–110352. 1 indexed citations
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Kou, Weili, et al.. (2025). Enhanced recognition and counting of high-coverage Amorphophallus konjac by integrating UAV RGB imagery and deep learning. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 6501–6501. 2 indexed citations
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Liang, Yuying, Weili Kou, Weiheng Xu, et al.. (2023). Rubber Tree Recognition Based on UAV RGB Multi-Angle Imagery and Deep Learning. Drones. 7(9). 547–547. 7 indexed citations
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Xu, Weiheng, et al.. (2023). Retrieval of Three-Dimensional Green Volume in Urban Green Space from Multi-Source Remote Sensing Data. Remote Sensing. 15(22). 5364–5364. 9 indexed citations
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Liu, Yun, et al.. (2023). Integrating three-dimensional greenness into RSEI improved the scientificity of ecological environment quality assessment for forest. Ecological Indicators. 156. 111092–111092. 24 indexed citations
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Kou, Weili, Ning Lu, Yue Chen, et al.. (2023). Individual Tree AGB Estimation of Malania oleifera Based on UAV-RGB Imagery and Mask R-CNN. Forests. 14(7). 1493–1493. 7 indexed citations
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Qin, Jun, et al.. (2022). Reconstruction of 60-year (1961–2020) surface air temperature on the Tibetan Plateau by fusing MODIS and ERA5 temperatures. The Science of The Total Environment. 853. 158406–158406. 13 indexed citations
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Xu, Weiheng, Shaodong Huang, Fei Dai, et al.. (2022). The dynamics of tea plantation encroachment into forests and effect on forest landscape pattern during 1991–2021 through time series Landsat images. Ecological Indicators. 141. 109132–109132. 9 indexed citations
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Zong, Wang, et al.. (2021). Measurement of Stress Optic Coefficient for Thermal Barrier Coating Based on Terahertz Time-Domain Spectrum. Coatings. 11(10). 1265–1265. 7 indexed citations
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Lu, Ning, Wenhui Wang, Dong Li, et al.. (2019). Estimation of Nitrogen Nutrition Status in Winter Wheat From Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Based Multi-Angular Multispectral Imagery. Frontiers in Plant Science. 10. 1601–1601. 67 indexed citations
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Lu, Ning, Jie Zhou, Dong Li, et al.. (2019). Improved estimation of aboveground biomass in wheat from RGB imagery and point cloud data acquired with a low-cost unmanned aerial vehicle system. Plant Methods. 15(1). 17–17. 169 indexed citations
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Kou, Weili, Jinwei Dong, Xiangming Xiao, et al.. (2018). Expansion dynamics of deciduous rubber plantations in Xishuangbanna, China during 2000–2010. GIScience & Remote Sensing. 55(6). 905–925. 37 indexed citations
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Li, Dong, Hengbiao Zheng, Xiaoqing Xu, et al.. (2018). BRDF Effect on the Estimation of Canopy Chlorophyll Content in Paddy Rice from UAV-Based Hyperspectral Imagery. 8 indexed citations

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