I'm a final year PhD candidate working on developing remote sensing techniques utilizing multi-source remote sensing data (e.g. GEDI, ICESat2, Landsat archive, PlanetScope) for monitoring long term carbon sequestration in forest restoration areas in East Africa. Seeking to understand how to use RS-based quantitative information to improve the sustainability of human-environment interaction is both a passion of mine and the aim of my PhD work. Moreover, I have developed skills in forest inventory and Terrestrial Laser Scanner (TLS) data collection from working on field campaigns in Mozambique and Uganda. Developing web-based interactive map dashboards is another set of technical expertise that I have been practicing (see http://mliang8.github.io/ for map portfolio ) and want to employ in future projects to enhance communications with various stakeholders. If you are interested in my research, please see https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=AZ_-HzAAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao for the associated publications. If you are interested in collaborations, please email me mliang77 [at] terpmail.umd.edu.
Areas of Interest
- Lidar remote sensing, data fusion, forest dynamics
Degrees
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Degree TypeMSDegree DetailsCartography, Technical University of Munich (TUM)
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Degree TypeBSc, HonDegree DetailsGeography, University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison)
Awards
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2020-08-31BSOS Dean's Research Initiative
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2021-08-31NASA FINESST Grant (through May 2024)
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2023-05-013 Minute Thesis Competition Campus-wide winner
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2023-05-25Excellence in Graduate Research Award, 1st Pace, Department of Geographical Sciences, UMD
Research Topics
- Carbon, Vegetation Dynamics and Landscape-Scale Processes
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CampusEvent coordinator at Graduate Student Government, 2019-2020
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CampusPresident at Graduate Student Government, 2020-2021
