Weili Kou

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
66 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Weili Kou is a scholar working on Ecology, Environmental Engineering and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Weili Kou has authored 66 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Ecology, 33 papers in Environmental Engineering and 28 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Weili Kou's work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (40 papers), Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (30 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (16 papers). Weili Kou is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing in Agriculture (40 papers), Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (30 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (16 papers). Weili Kou collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Germany. Weili Kou's co-authors include Xiangming Xiao, Jinwei Dong, Yuanwei Qin, Geli Zhang, Cui Jin, Yuting Zhou, Ning Lu, Çhandrashekhar Biradar, Jie Wang and Weiheng Xu 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

Weili Kou

53 papers receiving 1.8k 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.

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						Papers	Cites
Weili Kou China	18	1.4k	1.0k	657	522	258	66	1.9k
Xiangqin Wei China	23	1.1k 0.8×	872 0.9×	583 0.9×	407 0.8×	396 1.5×	50	1.9k
Manuel Campos‐Taberner Spain	22	1.3k 0.9×	901 0.9×	673 1.0×	366 0.7×	433 1.7×	49	2.0k
Jun Xiong United States	16	1.2k 0.9×	1.2k 1.2×	484 0.7×	573 1.1×	262 1.0×	25	2.0k
Giuseppe Modica Italy	23	1.2k 0.8×	1.1k 1.1×	585 0.9×	281 0.5×	335 1.3×	59	2.1k
Kamini Yadav United States	14	1.5k 1.1×	1.2k 1.2×	598 0.9×	507 1.0×	315 1.2×	30	2.2k
Jinshui Zhang China	19	994 0.7×	1.1k 1.1×	447 0.7×	471 0.9×	259 1.0×	81	2.0k
Felix Rembold Italy	26	1.3k 1.0×	1.2k 1.1×	439 0.7×	337 0.6×	405 1.6×	73	2.2k
Pardhasaradhi Teluguntla United States	16	1.3k 0.9×	1.1k 1.0×	489 0.7×	413 0.8×	350 1.4×	36	1.9k
Rick Mueller United States	11	1.2k 0.9×	802 0.8×	606 0.9×	304 0.6×	394 1.5×	28	1.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Weili Kou

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Weili Kou

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Weili Kou. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Weili Kou 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 Weili Kou. Weili Kou is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Chen, Yue, et al.. (2025). Mapping Burned Forest Areas in Western Yunnan, China, Using Multi-Source Optical Imagery Integrated with Simple Non-Iterative Clustering Segmentation and Random Forest Algorithms in Google Earth Engine. Remote Sensing. 17(5). 741–741. 1 indexed citations

Li, Dong, et al.. (2025). A Multi-Feature Estimation Model for Olive Canopy Chlorophyll Combining XGBoost with UAV Imagery. Agronomy. 15(12). 2718–2718.

Kou, Weili, et al.. (2025). YOLO-CDD: Real-time and accurate detection of latex collection bowl and flow states with enhanced multi-scale feature fusion. Smart Agricultural Technology. 12. 101305–101305.

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.

Chen, Yue, et al.. (2025). Post-Fire Forest Ecological Quality Recovery Driven by Topographic Variation in Complex Plateau Regions: A 2006–2020 Landsat RSEI Time-Series Analysis. Forests. 16(3). 502–502.

Kou, Weili, et al.. (2025). Improved Estimation of Aboveground Biomass in Rubber Plantations Using Deep Learning on UAV Multispectral Imagery. Drones. 9(1). 32–32. 8 indexed citations

Zhao, Yanan, et al.. (2025). Machine learning-enabled UAV hyperspectral identification of tomato spotted wilt virus in tobacco. Frontiers in Plant Science. 16. 1728043–1728043.

Wang, Xincheng, Bangqian Chen, Jinwei Dong, et al.. (2024). Early identification of immature rubber plantations using Landsat and Sentinel satellite images. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 133. 104097–104097. 6 indexed citations

Yun, Ting, Bangqian Chen, Hongyan Lai, et al.. (2024). Improving the accuracy of canopy height mapping in rubber plantations based on stand age, multi-source satellite images, and random forest algorithm. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 131. 103941–103941. 4 indexed citations

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Chen, Bangqian, Jinwei Dong, Trần Thị Hiền, et al.. (2024). A full time series imagery and full cycle monitoring (FTSI-FCM) algorithm for tracking rubber plantation dynamics in the Vietnam from 1986 to 2022. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 220. 377–394. 3 indexed citations

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Chen, Bangqian, Jun Ma, Chuan Yang, et al.. (2023). Diversified land conversion deepens understanding of impacts of rapid rubber plantation expansion on plant diversity in the tropics. The Science of The Total Environment. 874. 162505–162505. 10 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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Yang, Zhiqi, Jinwei Dong, Weili Kou, Yuanwei Qin, & Xiangming Xiao. (2021). Mapping Panax Notoginseng Plantations by Using an Integrated Pixel- and Object-Based (IPOB) Approach and ZY-3 Imagery. Remote Sensing. 13(11). 2184–2184. 3 indexed citations

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Dai, Fei, Qi Mo, Zhenping Qiang, et al.. (2020). A Choreography Analysis Approach for Microservice Composition in Cyber-Physical-Social Systems. IEEE Access. 8. 53215–53222. 20 indexed citations

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Chen, Bangqian, Xiangming Xiao, Zhixiang Wu, et al.. (2018). Identifying Establishment Year and Pre-Conversion Land Cover of Rubber Plantations on Hainan Island, China Using Landsat Data during 1987–2015. Remote Sensing. 10(8). 1240–1240. 38 indexed citations

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Yang, Zhiqi, Jinwei Dong, Yuanwei Qin, et al.. (2018). Integrated Analyses of PALSAR and Landsat Imagery Reveal More Agroforests in a Typical Agricultural Production Region, North China Plain. Remote Sensing. 10(9). 1323–1323. 10 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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Zhai, Deli, Jinwei Dong, Georg Cadisch, et al.. (2017). Comparison of Pixel- and Object-Based Approaches in Phenology-Based Rubber Plantation Mapping in Fragmented Landscapes. Remote Sensing. 10(1). 44–44. 40 indexed citations

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Kou, Weili, Xiangming Xiao, Jinwei Dong, et al.. (2015). Mapping Deciduous Rubber Plantation Areas and Stand Ages with PALSAR and Landsat Images. Remote Sensing. 7(1). 1048–1073. 93 indexed citations

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Wang, Jie, Xiangming Xiao, Yuanwei Qin, et al.. (2015). Mapping paddy rice planting area in wheat-rice double-cropped areas through integration of Landsat-8 OLI, MODIS and PALSAR images. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 10088–10088. 74 indexed citations

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