Prof. Chong Liu applies remote sensing techniques to map and monitor the Earth’s terrestrial surface. He develops remote sensing algorithms that are generalizable to applications from local to global scales.

Liu obtained a Ph.D. Degree in Remote Sensing from a joint research program hosted by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Wuhan University. At Chapel Hill, he conducted research in Prof. Conghe Song’s team in the Department of Geography at the University of North Carolina.

Liu’s featured research articles, among many others, include:

• Mapping land cover in the Arctic published in Earth System Science Data in 2023
• Mapping impervious surface in the Arctic published in Science Bulletin in 2022
• Mapping pan-Arctic lake ice-Off phenology published in Remote Sensing in 2021
• Mapping global cropping intensity published in Remote Sensing of Environment in 2020
• Detecting impervious surface occurrence published in Remote Sensing of Environment in 2019