Bingwen Qiu

Bingwen Qiu's research interests focus on remote sensing time series methods for agricultural crops mapping. She has developed semi-automatic/automatic mapping methods for exploring spatiotemporal dynamics of paddy rice, winter wheat and maize in China during the past few decades. Future work will focus on the multi-dimensional characterization of croplands, the quantity, quality, cropping intensity, agricultural structures, crop planting as well as the management activities such as greenhouse and irrigation.

She is interested in how vegetation changes under the influence of human activities and climate changes. The world’s largest ecological project (Three-North Shelter Forest Program (TNSFP)) has been implemented in order to restore vegetation and combat the desertification in China for 40 years. This huge ecological project provides excellent opportunities for exploring long-term vegetation dynamic patterns as well as other land surface parameters, particularly the re-vegetation process. She has developed a flexible framework for characterizing vegetation changes through Combining Trend and Temporal Similarity trajectory (COTTS). Future work will be done to investigate the primary vegetation change patterns and its associations between vegetation, soil cover, moisture condition and other land surface parameters for positive efficacy of the ecological project. She feels excited to join the Carnegie Institution and will be working as a part of a team in remote sensing application fields.