Photo: Graduate Research Assistant Contact info Email: xin.yan@uga.edu Office: GG Building, Room 313 Phone Number: 515-715-7898 Research Interests: Wetland Remote Sensing; GeoAI; Blue Carbon; Environmental Policy; Climate Change; Geo Sciences; Ecology; Modeling; Interdisciplinary; Natural Research ResearchGate LinkedIn GoogleScholar Education Education: University of Georgia, Department of Geography, 2023 – Present Ph.D. student and research assistant in Geography Iowa State University, Department of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences, 2021 – 2023 Master of Science in Earth Science University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Aerospace Information Research Institute, State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, 2018 – 2021 Master of Engineering in Electronic and Communication Engineering Shandong Agricultural University, School of Information Science and Engineering, 2014 – 2018 Bachelor of Engineering in Surveying and Mapping Engineering Grant Support Grants: David F. Morehouse Fund in Geological Sciences at Iowa State University, 2021, 2022 Research Selected Publications: • Maniyar, C. B., Yan, X., Mai, G., Srivastava, D., Samiappan, S., Oliazadeh, A., Kumar, A., Kumar, M., Mishra, D. R. (2025). Artificial intelligence in environmental remote sensing: Progress, way forward and key considerations. Progress in Environmental Geography, 4(3), 363-389. https://doi.org/10.1177/27539687251357020 • Yan, X., & Niu, Z. (2024). Classification Feature Optimization for Global Wetlands Mapping. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 17, 8058–8072. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2024.3382580 • Yan, X.. (2024). Estimate the Building Height at a 10-meter Resolution Based on Sentinel Data. arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00989 • Mishra, D.R., Yan, X., Ghosh, S., Hladik, C., O’Connell, J. L., & Cho, H. J. (”J”). (2024) Wetland Mapping Methods and Techniques Using Multi-sensor, Multi-Resolution Remote Sensing: Successes and Challenges, in Remote Sensing Handbook, Volume V (2nd ed.). CRC Press.
