Kai Deng

Kai Deng


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Academic Career Length

5Years (2022-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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22 June 2022 in Remote Sensing
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CYCancan Yang
Cancan Yang
KDKai Deng
Kai Deng
DPDaoli Peng
Daoli Peng
LJLing Jiang
Ling Jiang
MZMingwei Zhao
Mingwei Zhao
XQXincai Qiu
Xincai Qiu
Vegetation phenology and its spatiotemporal driving factors are essential to reflect global climate change, the surface carbon cycle and regional ecology, and further quantitative studies on spatiotemporal heterogeneity and its two-way driving are needed. Based on MODIS phenology, meteorology, land cover and other data from 2001 to 2019, this paper analyzes the phenology change characteristics of the Yangtze River Delta from three dimensions: time, plane space and elevation. Then, the spatiotemporal heterogeneity of phenology and its driving factors are explored with random forest and geographic detector methods. The results show that (1) the advance of start of season (SOS) is insignificant—with 0.17 days per year; the end of season (EOS) shows a significant delay—0.48 days per year. The preseason temperature has a greater contribution to SOS, while preseason precipitation is main factor in determining EOS. (2) Spatial differences of the phenological index do not strictly obey the change rules of latitude at a provincial scale. The SOS of Jiangsu and Anhui is earlier than that of Zhejiang and Shanghai, and EOS shows an obvious double-clustering phenomenon. In addition, a divergent response of EOS with elevation grades is found; the most significant changes are observed at grades below 100 m. (3) Land cover (LC) type is a major factor of the spatial heterogeneity of phenology, and its change may also be one of the insignificant factors driving the interannual change of phenology. Furthermore, nighttime land surface temperature (NLST) has a relatively larger contribution to the spatial heterogeneity in non-core urban areas, but population density (PD) contributes little. These findings could provide a new perspective on phenology and its complex interactions between natural or anthropogenic factors.

19 July 2023 in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
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CYCancan Yang
Cancan Yang
LJLing Jiang
Ling Jiang
WDWen Dai
Wen Dai
DPDaoli Peng
Daoli Peng
KDKai Deng
Kai Deng
XCXi Chen
Xi Chen
Lane-level road maps are crucial for urban traffic management, autonomous driving, and vehicle navigations. Optical remote sensing (ORS) image suffers from trees and buildings occlusion for lane-level road mapping due to the top-down view. While street view images (SVIs) have been used for road detection, however, most of the previous studies focused on extracting road in image space. The reconstruction of lane-level road maps with measurability in geographic space remains challenging. Hence, this paper proposed an operational framework for extracting and reconstructing lane-level road maps from urban open access data (U-OAD). First, a sample strategy was used to collect SVIs based on OSM road central lines. Then, a deep learning (DL)-based method was adopted to identify lanes accurately, and road width was extracted based on design knowledge and OSM information. Finally, the lane-level road map was reconstructed by integrating the lane and its width information. The proposed framework achieves the transformation from image space to geographic space. The case study shows that 82.43% of the roadway is accurately reconstructed in lane-level. The difference between the reconstructed width of the roadway and the reference true value is within the m-level and the RMSE is 0.32 m. The proposed method is cost-effective and accurate-acceptable for acquiring lane-level road datasets in cities.