Dr. Hongbo Su

Assistant Professor

Email: kuhs2007@tamuk.edu
Personal Website:
http://users.tamuk.edu/kuhs2007/

Phone: (361) 593-3061
Fax: (361) 593-2069

Environmental Engineering Department
700 University Blvd. MSC 213
Kingsville, TX 78363

Research Interest

Land surface-atmospheric interactions with emphasis on energy balance and water cycling, surface hydrology, quantitative remote sensing, Geographic Information Systems. Please visit Dr. Su's Website to learn more about his research.

Education

- Ph.D., Environmental Engineering, Princeton University, 2008
- Ph.D., Cartography and GIS, Institute of Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, China, 2002
- B.E., Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University (Formerly WTUSM: Wuhan Technical University of Surveying and Mapping), Wuhan, China, 1997

Sample Publications (peered reviewed in recent 5 years)

1. Chen, Shaohui; Zhang, Renhua; Su, Hongbo; Tian, Jing; Xia, Jun. (2009). "Scaling-up Transformation of Multisensor Images with Multiple Resolutions." Sensors 9, no. 3: 1370-1381.

2. Shaohui Chen, Renhua Zhang, Hongbo Su, Jing Tian, Jun Xia (2008) "Introducing object reflectance property and sensor spectral response into empirical mode decomposition based MODIS and TM image fusion", Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing, 34 (6), pp. 585-595.

3. Renhua Zhang, Jing Tian, Hongbo Su, Xiaomin Sun, Shaohui Chen, Jun Xia (2008) "Two Improvements of an Operational Two-Layer Model for Terrestrial Surface Heat Flux Retrieval", Sensors, 8(10), 6165-6187

4. Hongbo Su, Eric F. Wood, H. Wang and Rachel T. Pinker (2008) "Spatial and Temporal Scaling Behavior of Surface Downward Shortwave Radiation Based on MODIS and In-situ Measurements", IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, vol. 5, pp. 542-546.

5. Chen, S. H.; Su, H. B.; Zhang, R. H. (2008) Feature space and measure metric for fusing multisensor images. International Journal of Remote Sensing, vol. 29, pp. 3257-3270.

6. S. H. Chen, H. B. Su, R. H. Zhang, J. Tian, and L. H. Yang (2008) "Improving Empirical Mode Decomposition Using Support Vector Machines for Multifocus Image Fusion", Sensors, vol. 8, pp. 2500-2508.

7. M.F. McCabe, E.F. Wood, R. Wójcik, M. Pan, J. Sheffield, H. Gao and H. Su (2008) "Hydrological consistency using multi-sensor remote sensing data for water and energy cycle studies", Remote Sensing of Environment, Vol. 112, Issue 2, Pages 430-444.

8. Jing Tian, Renhua Zhang, Hongbo Su, Xiaomin Sun, Shaohui Chen and Jun Xia (2008) "An Automatic Instrument to Study the Spatial Scaling Behavior of Emissivity,", Sensors, 8, 800-816.

9. Xiangzheng Deng, Hongbo Su and Jinyan Zhan (2008) "Integration of Multiple Data Sources to Simulate the Dynamics of Land Systems", Sensors, 8, 620-6348.

10. Chen, S. H.; Su, H. B.; Zhang, R. H.; Tian J.; Yang, L. H. (2008) Fusing remote sensing images using a trous wavelet transform and empirical mode decomposition. Pattern Recognition Letters, 29, 330-342.

11. S. H. Chen, H. B. Su, R. H. Zhang, J. Tian, and L. H. Yang (2008) "The tradeoff analysis for remote sensing image fusion using expanded spectral angle mapper," Sensors, vol. 8, pp. 520-528.

12. Wang, W.-M., Li, Z.-L., and Su, H.-B. (2007) Comparison of leafnext term angle distribution functions: Effects on extinction coefficient and fraction of sunlit foliage, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 143(1-2):106-122.

13. Su, H., Wood, E. F., McCabe, M. F. and Su, Z. (2007). Towards a globally operational evapotranspiration product based on remotely sensed data: evaluation of the SEBS model using the CEOP data, Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan, 85A(0): 439-459.

14. R, Wojcik, P.A. Troch, H. Stricker, P. Torfs, E. Wood, H Su, Z.Su, (2006) Mixtures of Gaussians for Uncertainty Description in Bivariate Latent Heat Flux Proxies. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 7(3): 330-345.

15. W. WANG *, X. SUN, R. ZHANG, Z. LI, Z. ZHU and H. SU (2006) Multi-layer perceptron neural network based algorithm for estimating precipitable water vapour from MODIS NIR data. International Journal of Remote Sensing: Vol. 27, No. 3, 10 February 2006, 615-619.

16. Su, H., McCabe, M. F., Wood, E. F., Su, Z. and Prueger, J. (2005) Modeling evapotranspiration during SMACEX: comparing two approaches for local and regional scale prediction. Journal of Hydrometeorology: 6(6): 910~922.

17. French, A. N., Jacob, F., Anderson, M. C., Kustas, W. P., Timmermans, W., Gieske, A., Su, B., Su, H., McCabe, M. F., Li, F., Prueger, J. H. and Brusnell, N. (2005). Surface energy fluxes with the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection radiometer (ASTER) at the Iowa 2002 SMACEX site (USA). Remote Sensing of Environment, Volume 99, Issue 1-2, 15 November 2005, Pages 55-65.

Courses

- EVEN 6354. Environmental Regulations and Policy

Professional Affiliations

- Senior Member, IEEE (since 2007)
- Sigma Xi (since 2007)
- Member, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (since 2003)
- Member, American Geophysical Union (AGU, since 2003)
- Member, Association of American Geographers (AAG, since 2007)