Hongbo Su
Research Associate  

Center for Research on Environment and Water
4041 Powder Mill Road, Suite 302
Calverton, MD 20705-3106 USA
Phone: 240-247-1445
Fax:     301-595-9790
Email: Hongbo Su

Water Cycle Research:  The ability to model our Earth land-atmosphere environment is critical to understanding the way in which changes may impact the Earth. It is hoped that this path of study may increase knowledge of our planet and be of benefit to humankind. My research is focused on Surface Hydrology, Quantitative Remote Sensing, GIS and Spatial Analysis in Ecological Modeling, Land Surface-Atmosphere Interactions with Emphasis on Energy Balance and Water Cycling. The project he is working on at CREW is “A Prototype Land Information Sensor Web (LISW)”.

 

Education

 

Doctor of Philosophy in Civil and Environmental Engineering

Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey

Doctor of Philosophy in Cartography and GIS, Institute of Geography

Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, China

           

 

Professional Experiences

 

Center for Research on Environment and Water            Research Associate

 

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University Research Assistant

                                                 

Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS),  China  Research Assistant

                                                 

 

Professional Services and Membership

 

  • Technical Program Committee (TPC) on IGARSS’2006  
  • Member, IEEE
  • Member, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society
  • Member, American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • Member, New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS)
  • Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
  • Reviewer, International Journal of Remote Sensing
  • Reviewer, Science of China

 

 

Most Recent Publications and Presentations

 

Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications:

 

1.     Hongbo Su, Rachel Pinker, Eric F. Wood (2006). Evaluation of a MODIS based surface downward shortwave radiation data product using in situ measurements from Oklahoma MesoNet and BSRN sites over the Southern Great Plains. Geophysical Research Letter (in review).

2.     McCabe, M. F., Wood, E. F., Su, H. (2006) The influence of scale on multi-sensor estimation of evapotranspiration. Remote Sensing of Environment (in review)

3.     Su, H., Wood, E. F., McCabe, M. F. and Su, Z. (2006). Evaluation of remotely sensed evapotranspiration over the CEOP EOP-1 reference sites, Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan (Accepted).

4.     Weimin Wang, Zhaoliang Li and Hongbo Su (2006) Comparison of leaf angle distribution functions: effects on extinction coefficient and fraction of sunlit foliage. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology (Accepted).

5.     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.

6.     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.

7.     R, Wojcik, P.A. Troch, H. Stricker, P. Torfs, E. Wood, H Su, Z.Su, (2005) Mixtures of Gaussians for Uncertainty Description in Bivariate Latent Heat Flux Proxies. Journal of Hydrometeorology Vol. 7: 330-345.

8.     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.

9.      Li ZL, Zhang R, Sun X, Su H, Tang X, Zhu Z, Sobrino JA (2004) Experimental system for the study of the directional thermal emission of natural surfaces. INT J REMOTE SENS 25 (1): 195-204 JAN 2004

10.   Zhang RH, Li ZL, Tang XZ, Sun XM, Su HB, Zhu C, Zhu ZL (2004) Study of emissivity scaling and relativity of homogeneity of surface temperature. INT J REMOTE SENS 25 (1): 245-259 JAN 2004

11.   Zhang RH, Sun XM, Zhu ZL, Su HB, Tang XZ (2003) A remote sensing model for monitoring soil evaporation based on differential thermal inertia and its validation. SCI CHINA SER D 46 (4): 342-+ APR 2003

12.   Zhang RH, Sun XM, Liu JY, Su HB, Tang XZ, Zhu ZL (2003)  Determination of regional distribution of crop transpiration and soil water use efficiency using quantitative remote sensing data through inversion. SCI CHINA SER D 46 (1): 10-22 JAN 2003

13.   Su, H.B., Zhang, R. H., Tang, X. Z., Sun, X. M., Zhu, Z. L. and Li, Z. L., 2003. An alternative method to compute the component fractions in the geometrical optical model: Visual computing method. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 41(3): 719-724.

14.   Zhu ZL, Sun XM, Zhang RH, Su HB, Tang XZ, Lee XH (2002).A note on alternatively direct measurement of the transfer resistance over vegetation. JOURNAL OF ATMOSPHERIC AND OCEANIC TECHNOLOGY 19 (11): pp1886-1890 NOV. 2002

15.   Zhang Renhua, Su Hongbo, Li Zhaoliang, Sun Xiaomin, Tang Xinzhai & F.Becker. (2001) the potential information in the temperature difference between shadow and sunlit of surfaces and a new way of retrieving the soil moisture.  SCIENCE IN CHINA (Series D). Vol.44, No.2, pp: 112~123.           

16.   H.B. Su, R.H. Zhang, X.Z. Tang, and X.M. Sun (2000) Determination of the effective emissivities for the regular and irregular cavities using Monte-Carlo Method. INT. J. REMOTE SENSING, Vol 21, No. 11, pp:2311~2319

17.   Tang Xinzhai, Zhang Renhua, Su Hongbo, Sun Xiaomin (2000) The Sealing-cavity Method for Determining Emissivity and Its Deviation Analysis (in Chinese). Journal of Remote Sensing. Vol.4, No.1, pp: 1~7.

18.   Su Hongbo, Wang Jindi, Li Xiaowen, Zhang Renhua, Tang Xinzhai, Sun Xiaomin (2000) The Indoor Simulation and Validation of Thermal Radiation Directionality Model for Three Dimensional Surface with Heterogeneous Temperature (in Chinese). Journal of Remote Sensing. Vol.4 Suppl., pp: 71~80.

19.   Chen Liangfu, Zhuang Jiali, Xu Xiru, Zhang Renhua, Su Hongbo (2000) Simulation and Test of Radiant Directionality of Non-Isothermal Discontinuous Target (in Chinese). Journal of Remote Sensing. Vol.4 Suppl., pp:48~52

20.   H.B. Su, R.H. Zhang, X.Z. Tang, X.M. Sun and Z.L. Zhu. (2000) Thermal Model for Discrete Vegetation and Its Solution on Pixel Scale Using Computer Graphics. SCIENCE IN CHINA, Vol.43 supp. pp48~54

21.   Ren-Hua Zhang, Xiao-Min Sun , Zhao-Liang Li , M.P. Stoll, Hong-Bo Su and Xin-Zhai Tang. (2000) Revealing of major factors in the directional thermal radiation of ground objects -- new way for improving the precision of directional radiant temperature measuring and data analysis. SCIENCE IN CHINA, Vol.43, Supp, pp 105~111

22.   Sun Xiaomin, Zhu Zhilin, Tang Xinzai, Su Hongbo, Zhang Renhua (2000) A New measuring technique of soil thermal inertia. SCIENCE IN CHINA, Vol.43 Supp., pp 62 ~69.

23.   Zhang Ren-Hua, Sun Xiao-Min, Zhu Zhi-Lin, Su Hong-Bo and Chen Gang. (1999) A remote sensing model of CO2 flux for wheat and studying of regional distribution. SCIENCE IN CHINA, Vol. 42, No.3, pp325-336

24.  Zhang Renhua, Sun Xiaomin, Su Hongbo, Tang Xinzhai, Zhu Zhilin (1999) Remote sensing and scale transferring of levity parameters on earth surface (in Chinese). Remote Sening for Land & Resources. 1999, No.3, pp 51~58.

 

Conference Papers and Seminars Contributed:

1.     Hongbo Su (2006) Water Cycling and Ecosystem Assessment in China. Workshop in Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, November 2006.

2.     Hongbo Su, Eric Wood (2006) Application of GIS in Land Surface Hydrology. Lecture of Visualizing Spatial Information in the Classroom, Princeton University (http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2006/04/visualizing_spatial_information_in_the_classroom.html#more).

3.     Su, H., Wood, E.F., Wojcik, R., Mccabe, M. (2006) Sensitivity analysis of regional scale evapotranspiration predictions to the forcing data Eos Trans. AGU, Spring/Meet. Suppl., Abstract H31A-02.

4.     Hongbo Su, Eric F. Wood (2006). Estimation of the regional evapotranspiration based on MODIS data. Invited talk in Beijing Normal University. January 3, 2006.

5.     Eric F. Wood, Hongbo Su, Matthew McCabe, (2006). A Terrestrial Evaporation Product Using MODIS Data. MODIS Science Team Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, January 2006.

6.      Hongbo Su, Matthew McCabe, Wojcik, R., Eric F. Wood, Pinker, R T., (2005). Estimating Regional Evapotranspiration over the Red-Arkansas Basin Using Satellite and In-situ Data, Eos Trans. AGU, 86(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract H43H-08.

7.      Hongbo Su, Eric F. Wood (2005). Estimation of Terrestrial Evapotranspiration Based on Remotely Sensed Data. Lecture Series of Department of Earth & Environmental Studies, Montclair State University, November 15, 2005.

8.      Hongbo Su, Eric F. Wood (2005). Remote Sensing of Terrestrial Evapotranspiration (ET) based on MODIS and LDAS Forcing Data. The 9th International Symposium on Physical Measurements and Signature in Remote Sensing (ISPMSRS), Beijing, 2005.

9.      Hongbo Su, Eric F. Wood (2005). Developing an operational algorithm to derive a global evapotranspiration product using remotely sensed data. Invited talk in Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Beijing, September 20, 2005.

10.   Eric F. Wood, Matthew McCabe, Wojcik, R., Hongbo Su, Huilin Gao and Justin Sheffield, (2005). Remote Sensing of Hydrological Variables over the Red Arkansas. the 5th International Scientific Conference on the Global Energy and Water Cycle, Orange County, California, June 2005.

11.   Eric F. Wood, Matthew McCabe, Hongbo Su, (2005). Global Evaluation of a MODIS-based Evapotranspiration Product (H32B-02), AGU 2005 Spring Meeting.

12.   E. F. Wood, M. F. McCabe, H. Su, K. Tu, (2005) Globally Distributed Evapotranspiration using Remote Sensing and CEOP Data. CEOP Phase 1 Achievements -- Presentations at CEOP/IGWCO Joint Meeting, Tokyo, March 2005.

13.   E. F. Wood, M. F. McCabe, H. Su, B. Su, (2005) Estimating Terrestrial Evaporation: Algorithm background for the new MOD16 product. MODIS Science Team Meeting 2005.

14.   Matthew McCabe, Eric F. Wood, Hongbo Su, (2005) Multi-scale estimation of evapotranspiration using SEBS. Bureau of Reclamation ET Workshop, Fort Collins, Colorado - Feb. 8-10, 2005

15.   Hongbo Su, (2005) Developing an operational algorithm to derive a global evapotranspiration product using remotely sensed data. CEE Department Brownbag Seminar.

16.   Eric F. Wood, Matthew McCabe, Hongbo Su, (2005). Globally distributed evapotranspiration using remote sensing and CEOP data. CEOP/IGWCO Joint Meeting 2005 in Tokyo, Japan.

17.   R. Wójcik, P.A. Troch, H. Stricker, P.J.J.F. Torfs, E.F. Wood, H. Su, and Z. Su (2004), Mixtures of Gaussians for uncertainty description in latent heat flux estimates from remotely sensed information, in Proceedings of the 2nd international CAHMDA workshop on: The Terrestrial Water Cycle: Modelling and Data Assimilation Across Catchment Scales, edited by A.J. Teuling, H. Leijnse, P.A. Troch, J. Sheffield and E.F. Wood, pp. 41–44, Princeton, NJ, October 25–27

18.   Su, H, E. F. Wood, McCabe, M. F., Bob Su, (2004) Remote Sensing of Evapotranspiration (ET) on Land Surface. Presentation in Princeton Graduate Research Symposium 2004.

19.   Su, H, E. F. Wood, McCabe, M. F., (2004). Assessing Remotely Sensed Based Estimates of Evapotranspiration Using a Global Set of Evaluation Datasets, Eos Trans. AGU, 85(47), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract H13C-0440, 2004, San Francisco, California, December 2004.

20.   R. Wojcik, P.A. Troch, P.J.J.F. Torfs, E. Wood, H. Su and Z. Su, Probabilistic Assimilation of Combined Remotely Sensed and In-situ Latent Heat Flux Observations into land Surface Flux. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 6, 03634, 2004 EGU.

21.   Hongbo Su (2003). Retrieval of Evapotranspiration on Land Surface Using Remotely Sensed Data. CEE Department Brownbag Seminar.

22.   McCabe, M. F., E. F. Wood, Su, H., Gao, H. and Sheffield, J., (2003) Soil moisture and evapotranspiration patterns from space: remote sensing techniques to determine large scale water balances, Eos Trans. AGU, 84(46),Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract H21H-04, 2003.

23.   E. WOOD, M. McCABE, H. GAO, H. SU, J. SHEFFIELD, (2003) Monitoring the water budget of large basins from space. Workshop: Hydrology from space, 29th - 30th September 2003, CNES, Toulouse, France. 

24.   E. Wood, H. Su, J. Sheffield, B. Su, (2003). Estimating Evapotranspiration from Satellite Remote Sensing, Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 5, 02050, 2003, EGS - AGU - EUG Joint Assembly, Nice, France, April 2003

25.   E.F. Wood, J. Sheffield, M. Pan, H. Su, (2003). A remote sensing data assimilation strategy for ungaged basins. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 5, 01613, 2003, EGS - AGU - EUG Joint Assembly, Nice, France, April 2003

26.   Eric F. Wood, Hongbo Su, Matthew McCabe (2003). Estimating Evaporation from Satellite Remote Sensing. IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2003)

27.   H. Su, J. Sheffield, E. F. Wood, B. Su (2002). Comparison of Evaporation Estimated by Satellite Remote Sensing With Estimates from a Land Surface Model. Cite abstracts as Eos Trans. AGU, 83(47), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract H72E-0901, 2002, San Francisco, California, December 2002.

28.   Sun Xiaomin, Zhu Zhilin, Tang Xinzhai, Su Hongbo, Zhang Renhua. The impact of local advection on the accuracy of surface fluxes based on remote sensing. 2002 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2002) Volume: 4 Start Page: 2323

29.   Tang, Xinzhai; Zhang, Renhua; Su, Hongbo; Sun, Xiaomin; Zhu, Zhilin. New instrument for determination of directional emissivity and distribution principle of directional emissivity of some major types of ground objects. 2002 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2002) Volume: 5 Start Page: 2765

30.   Zhang, Ren-Hua; Sun, Xiao-Min; Su, Hong-Bo; Zhu, Zhi-Lin; Tang, Xin-Zhai. A new design for measuring directional radiant temperature and data analysis. 2002 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2002) Volume: 5 Start Page: 2768

31.   Su, Hong-Bo; Zhang, Ren-Hua; Li, Zhao-Liang; Tang, Xin-Zhai; Sun, Xiao-Min; Zhu, Zhi-Lin; Yuan, Guo-Fu. Retrieval of directional fraction of vegetation cover using digital camera. 2002 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2002) Volume: 5 Start Page: 2762

32.   Zhang, Ren-Hua; Sun, Xiao-Min; Su, Hong-Bo; Li, Zhao-Liang; Tang, Xin-Zhai; Zhu, Zhi-Lin. Principle and practice to separate mixed surface temperature using two-temporal phases radiometric temperature. 2002 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2002) Volume: 6 Start Page: 3686

33.   Jindi Wang, Xiaowen Li, Hongbo Su, Ziti Jiao (2001) Approach on Directional Thermal Emission Modeling for   3-D Structural Pixel and the Model Validation. Proceeding of IGARSS 2001(Sydney, Australia)

34.   Hong-Bo Su, Ren-Hua ZHANG, Xin-Zhai TANG, et al. (2001). A Simplified Method to Separate Latent and Sensible Heat Fluxes Using Remotely Sensed Data. Proceeding of IGARSS 2001(Sydney, Australia)

35.   Ren-Hua Zhang, Xiao-Min Sun, Hong-Bo Su, et al. (2001). Thermal Inertia Character in Tengeli Desert of West China and Seeking Source of Dusty Storm Using Remote Sensing Data. Proceeding of IGARSS 2001(Sydney, Australia)

36.   Ren-Hua Zhang, Xiao-Min Sun, Hong-Bo Su, et al. (2001). A New Algorithm for Inverting CO2 Assimilation Flux. Proceeding of IGARSS 2001(Sydney, Australia)

37.   Renhua Zhang, Xiaomin Sun, Hongbo Su, Xinzhai Tang (2000) The Measurements of Directional Emissivity of the Ground Objects Using a New Design Device with CO2 laser (in English). Proceeding of IGARSS 2000

38.   Renhua Zhang, Xiaomin Sun, Zhilin Zu, Hongbo Su, Xinzhai Tang (2000) A New Measuring Technique for Thermal Inertia of Soil (in English). Proceeding of IGARSS 2000

39.   Renhua Zhang, Xiaomin Sun, Hongbo Su, Xinzhai Tang, Daren Lu (2000) To Retrieve Regional Distribution for CO2 Assimilation of Grass Land In Inner Mongolia of China Using Two Time-Phase NOAA-AVHHR and Surface Data (in English). Proceeding of IGARSS 2000

40.   Zhang Renhua, Sun Xiaomin, Zhu Zhilin, Su Hongbo, Tang Xinzhai (1999) A design of measuring directly distribution of the emissivities for terrestrial surface on airborne. Proceedings of the 4th International Airborne Remote Sensing Conference and Exibition/21st Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing (Ontario, Canada), Vol.2, pp:II47~II53

41.   Zhang Renhua, Sun Xiaomin, Zhu Zhilin, Su Hongbo, Chen Gang. (1998) A remote sensing model for CO2 flux in wheat field. Optical Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere and Clouds Volume: 3501 Start Page: 490

 

Patents (Granted by State Intellectual Property Office of P.R. China)

 

  • Measurement of directional thermal infrared emissivity. No.:ZL 99 2 07592.0        Granted to: Zhang Renhua, Sun Xiaomin, Tang Xinzhai, Su Hongbo                      
  • Measurement of normal thermal infrared emissivity. No.: ZL 99 2 07591.2         Granted to: Zhang Renhua, Sun Xiaomin, Tang Xinzhai, Su Hongbo
  • Measurement of multi-reflection for thermal infrared emission. No.: ZL 02 2 37641.0 Granted to: Zhang Renhua, Sun Xiaomin, Tang Xinzhai, Su Hongbo
  • Portable system to measure thermal band emissivity. No.: ZL 02 2 37640.2   Granted to: Zhang Renhua, Sun Xiaomin, Tang Xinzhai, Su Hongbo

 

Updated on 11/2006.