Yanbiao Xi

1.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
25 papers, 743 citations indexed

About

Yanbiao Xi is a scholar working on Ecology, Environmental Engineering and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Yanbiao Xi has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 743 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Ecology, 11 papers in Environmental Engineering and 11 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Yanbiao Xi's work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (12 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (10 papers) and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (10 papers). Yanbiao Xi is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing in Agriculture (12 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (10 papers) and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (10 papers). Yanbiao Xi collaborates with scholars based in China, Denmark and United States. Yanbiao Xi's co-authors include Zongming Wang, Chunying Ren, Dehua Mao, Lin Chen, Bai Zhang, Qingjiu Tian, Bai Zhang, Mingming Jia, Hengxing Xiang and Kaishan Song and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Remote Sensing of Environment and Global Change Biology.

In The Last Decade

Yanbiao Xi

24 papers receiving 721 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.

Rapid expansion of coastal aquaculture ponds in China from Landsat observations during 1984–2016

2019 198 citations Ren Chunying, Zongming Wang et al. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation profile →

Peers

Yanbiao Xi

ECOLO

GPC

NLC

C. Kenneth Brewer United States

Astrid Verhegghen Italy

Devendra Dahal United States

E. Brown De Colstoun United States

Lara A. Arroyo Australia

Zhaofei Wen China

Kristin B. Byrd United States

Sadegh Jamali Sweden

Shoaib Ahmad Anees China

Roberto O. Chávez Chile

C. Kenneth Brewer United States

Yanbiao Xi

401 ×0.8

ECOLO

463 ×1.3

GPC

233 ×0.9

135 ×1.1

NLC

78 ×0.9

Citations per year, relative to Yanbiao Xi Yanbiao Xi (= 1×) peers C. Kenneth Brewer

Countries citing papers authored by Yanbiao Xi

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yanbiao Xi

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yanbiao Xi

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Xiang, Hengxing, Fudong Yu, Xinying Shi, et al.. (2025). SHAP-DNN Approach Advances Remote Sensing Mapping of Forested Wetlands. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 18. 6859–6869. 4 indexed citations

Ren, Yongxing, Dehua Mao, Tao Wang, et al.. (2025). Persistent vegetation greening trends across China’s wetlands. Communications Earth & Environment. 6(1).

Zhang, Wenmin, Yanbiao Xi, Martin Brandt, et al.. (2024). Stand structure of tropical forests is strongly associated with primary productivity. Communications Earth & Environment. 5(1). 2 indexed citations

Ren, Chunying, Hengxing Xiang, Wenmin Zhang, et al.. (2024). Tree species diversity impacts on ecosystem services of temperate forests. Ecological Indicators. 167. 112639–112639. 8 indexed citations

Xi, Yanbiao, et al.. (2024). Boreal tree species diversity increases with global warming but is reversed by extremes. Nature Plants. 10(10). 1473–1483. 11 indexed citations

Tian, Jia, Zhichao Zhang, William Philpot, et al.. (2023). Simultaneous estimation of fractional cover of photosynthetic and non-photosynthetic vegetation using visible-near infrared satellite imagery. Remote Sensing of Environment. 290. 113549–113549. 19 indexed citations

Ren, Chunying, et al.. (2023). Quantifying Temperate Forest Diversity by Integrating GEDI LiDAR and Multi-Temporal Sentinel-2 Imagery. Remote Sensing. 15(2). 375–375. 16 indexed citations

Ren, Yongxing, Xiaoyan Li, Dehua Mao, Yanbiao Xi, & Zongming Wang. (2023). Northeast China holds huge wetland soil organic carbon storage: an estimation from 819 soil profiles and random forest algorithm. Plant and Soil. 490(1-2). 469–483. 10 indexed citations

Xiang, Hengxing, Yanbiao Xi, Dehua Mao, et al.. (2023). Mapping potential wetlands by a new framework method using random forest algorithm and big Earth data: A case study in China's Yangtze River Basin. Global Ecology and Conservation. 42. e02397–e02397. 21 indexed citations

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Xi, Yanbiao, Wenmin Zhang, Martin Brandt, Qingjiu Tian, & Rasmus Fensholt. (2023). Mapping tree species diversity of temperate forests using multi-temporal Sentinel-1 and -2 imagery. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 8. 100094–100094. 8 indexed citations

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Ren, Yongxing, et al.. (2022). Aboveground biomass of marshes in Northeast China: Spatial pattern and annual changes responding to climate change. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 10. 4 indexed citations

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Zhang, Zhichao, Xinyu Dong, Jia Tian, et al.. (2022). Stand density estimation based on fractional vegetation coverage from Sentinel-2 satellite imagery. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 108. 102760–102760. 16 indexed citations

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Tian, Jia, et al.. (2022). An Impervious Surface Spectral Index on Multispectral Imagery Using Visible and Near-Infrared Bands. Remote Sensing. 14(14). 3391–3391. 22 indexed citations

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Xi, Yanbiao, Qingjiu Tian, Wenmin Zhang, et al.. (2022). Quantifying understory vegetation density using multi-temporal Sentinel-2 and GEDI LiDAR data. GIScience & Remote Sensing. 59(1). 2068–2083. 15 indexed citations

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Xi, Yanbiao, et al.. (2022). Mapping tree species in natural and planted forests using Sentinel-2 images. Remote Sensing Letters. 13(6). 544–555. 5 indexed citations

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Xiang, Hengxing, Zongming Wang, Dehua Mao, et al.. (2020). What did China's National Wetland Conservation Program Achieve？Observations of changes in land cover and ecosystem services in the Sanjiang Plain. Journal of Environmental Management. 267. 110623–110623. 76 indexed citations

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Chunying, Ren, Lin Chen, Zongming Wang, et al.. (2019). Spatio–Temporal Changes of Forests in Northeast China: Insights from Landsat Images and Geospatial Analysis. Forests. 10(11). 937–937. 12 indexed citations

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Chunying, Ren, Zongming Wang, Yuanzhi Zhang, et al.. (2019). Rapid expansion of coastal aquaculture ponds in China from Landsat observations during 1984–2016. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 82. 101902–101902. 198 indexed citations breakdown →

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Xi, Yanbiao, Chunying Ren, Zongming Wang, et al.. (2019). Mapping Tree Species Composition Using OHS-1 Hyperspectral Data and Deep Learning Algorithms in Changbai Mountains, Northeast China. Forests. 10(9). 818–818. 29 indexed citations

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Chen, Lin, Chunying Ren, Bai Zhang, Zongming Wang, & Yanbiao Xi. (2018). Estimation of Forest Above-Ground Biomass by Geographically Weighted Regression and Machine Learning with Sentinel Imagery. Forests. 9(10). 582–582. 124 indexed citations

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