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John Qu

  • Professor
  • ISE Faculty Fellow

    Contact Info

    John Qu
    Name
    Dr. John Qu
    Job Title
    Professor
    ISE Faculty Fellow
    Phone Number
    703-993-3958
    Office Number
    Exploratory Hall, Room 2412, MSN 6C3

    Affiliations

    Departments

    Research Areas

    • Remote Sensing
    • Wildland Fires
    • Natural Resource
    • Climate Science
    • Soil Moisture and Drought
    • Clean Energy
    • Water and Food Security
    • Environmental Studies
    • Ecosystem and Carbon

    Education

    Ph.D., Colorado State University

     

    About

    My research projects include land, water, and atmosphere environmental remote sensing, and will involve collaborations with international partners. My major research focus is already underway to develop integrated early warning and decision-support systems for sustainable Water-Energy-Food-Health (WEFH) Nexus.

    Current Research

    ■ An Investigation of Soil Moisture Impacting on Carbon Sequestration by Integrating Satellite Remote Sensing and In Situ Measurements, USGS.

    ■ Supporting the NOAA Atmospheric Temperature Climate Data Record from POES Microwave Sounders to JPSS/ATMS, NOAA.

    ■ Africa Soil Moisture Monitoring and Applications, WMO.

    ■ Impacts of Large Wildland Fires, USDA/FS.

    ■ Supporting World AgroMeteorological Information Service (WAMIS), WMO.

    ■ JPSS Life-Cycle Data Reprocessing, NOAA/UMD.

     

    Teaching Focus

     

    Courses taught:

    GGS 102 Physical Geography

    GGS 121 Dynamic Atmosphere/Hydrosphere

    GGS 309 Introduction to Weather and Climate 

    EOS 556 Introduction to Atmospheric Radiation

    GGS 670 Introduction to Atmosphere and Weather

    GGS 756 Physical Principles of Remote Sensing

    EOS 759 Advanced Physical Principles of Remote Sensing

    GGS 777 Remote Sensing of Natural Hazards

    GGS 900 GGS Colloquium: Climate Change and Water-Energy-Food Nexus

     

    Selected Publications

    • Qu, J. J. and R. P. Motha, (2022), Climate Change and a Sustainable Earth (textbook), Cambridge Scholars Publishing,  ISBN13: 978-1-5275-8044-2
    • ​​​​​​Xu, C., et al, (2018). Downscaling of surface soil moisture retrieval by combining MODIS/Landsat and in situ measurements. Remote Sensing, 10(2), 210.
    •  Qu, J.J., et al. (2015). Satellite-based applications on climate change. Springer.
    •  Qu, J.J. (2006). Earth science satellite remote sensing: vol. 1: science and instruments. Tsinghua University Press, Beijing and Springer-Verlag GmbH Berlin Heidelberg.
    •  Qu, J.J., et al. (2006). Asian dust storm monitoring combining terra and aqua MODIS SRB measurements. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters.
    • Wanting Wang, John J. Qu, Xianjun Hao, Yongqiang Liu, John A. Stanturf, 2010, Post-hurricane forest damage assessment using satellite remote sensing, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 150 (2010) 122–132.
    • Qu, J. J. and Stephen D. Ambrose, 2009, Recent Advances in Remote Sensing of Wildland Fires in the Eastern United States, J. Appl. Remote Sens. Vol. 3, 031599, DOI: 10.1117/1.3259883
    • Lingli Wang, John J. Qu, Xiaoxiong Xiong and Xianjun Hao, 2009. Analysis of Seven-year MODIS Vegetation Water Indices for Drought and Fire Activity Assessment over Georgia of the United States, Journal of Applied Remote Sensing J. Appl. Remote Sens., Vol. 3, 033555 (2009); doi:10.1117/1.3256138.
    • Xianjun Hao, John J. Qu, 2009. Fast and Highly Accurate Calculation of Band Averaged Radiance, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 30(5):1099-1108. DOI: 10.1080/01431160802235852
    • Lingli Wang, John J. Qu, 2009. Satellite remote sensing applications for surface soil moisture monitoring: A review. Front. Earth Sci. China 2009, 3(2): 237-247. DOI 10.1007/s11707-009-0023-7
    • Swarvanu Dasgupta, John J. Qu, Sanjeeb Bhoi, 2009. Constrained Radiative Transfer Inversions for Vegetation Moisture Retrievals in Grasslands, Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, Vol. 3, 031503, DOI:10.1117/1.3075052 .
    • Qu, J. J., Xianjun Hao, Yongqiang Liu, Allen R. Riebau, Haoruo Yi, and Xianlin Qin, 2008, Remote Sensing Applications of Wildland Fire and Air Quality in China, Developments in Environmental Sciences Volume 8, 2008, Pages 277-288, Wildland Fires and Air Pollution. doi:10.1016/S1474-8177(08)00013-2.

    Contact Info

    John Qu
    Name
    Dr. John Qu
    Job Title
    Professor
    ISE Faculty Fellow
    Phone Number
    703-993-3958
    Office Number
    Exploratory Hall, Room 2412, MSN 6C3