Contact：
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ronghai_Hu
Email: sea@mail.bnu.edu.cn
Research Interests:
Leaf Area Index (LAI)
Clumping effect
Scale effect
Vegetation Remote Sensing
Airborne LiDAR
Education：
2015.9 – present Joint PhD student, ICube Laboratory, UMR 7357 CNRS-University of Strasbourg
2012.9 – present Ph.D student, GIS, School of Geography, Beijing Normal University
2008.9 - 2012.7 B.Sc. (Honors), GIS, School of Geography, Beijing Normal University
Selected Publications
1. Hu, R., Luo, J., Yan, G.*, Zou, J., & Mu, X. (2016). Indirect Measurement of Forest Leaf Area Index Using Path Length Distribution Model and Multispectral Canopy Imager. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, doi:10.1109/JSTARS.2016.2569469
2. Yan, G., Hu, R.*, Wang, Y., Ren, H., Song, W., Qi, J., & Chen, L. (2016). Scale Effect in Indirect Measurement of Leaf Area Index. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 54, 3475-3484 （URL）
3. Wang, Y., Xie, D., Liu, S., Hu, R., Li, Y., & Yan, G. (2016). Scaling of Fapar from the Field to the Satellite. Remote Sensing, 8, 310
4. Zeng, Y., Li, J., Liu, Q., Hu, R., Mu, X., Fan, W., Xu, B., Yin, G., & Wu, S. (2015). Extracting Leaf Area Index by Sunlit Foliage Component from Downward-Looking Digital Photography under Clear-Sky Conditions. Remote Sensing, 7, 13410
5. Hu, R., Yan, G.*, Mu, X., & Luo, J. (2014). Indirect Measurement of Leaf Area Index on the Basis of Path Length Distribution. Remote Sensing of Environment, 155, 239-247
6. Ren, H., Yan, G.*, Liu, R., Nerry, F., Li, Z.-L., & Hu, R. (2013). Impact of Sensor Footprint on Measurement of Directional Brightness Temperature of Row Crop Canopies. Remote Sensing of Environment, 134, 135-151
7. Ren, H., Yan, G.*, Liu, R., Hu, R., Wang, T., & Mu, X. (2013). Spectral Recalibration for in-Flight Broadband Sensor Using Man-Made Ground Targets. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 51, 4316-4329
8. Yan, G.*, Ren, H., Hu, R., Yan, K., & Zhang, W.M. (2012). A Portable Multi-Angle Observation System. 2012 IEEE IGARSS (pp. 6916-6919). New York: IEEE
9. Hu, R., & Yan, G.* (2012). Indirect Measurement of Forest Lai to Deal with the Underestimation Problem Based on Beer-Lambert Law. Journal of Geo-Information Science, 14, 366-375 (In Chinese)
Patents：
Guangjian Yan, Wuming Zhang, Yaqi Liu, Huazhong Ren, Ronghai Hu, Zhen Zhu, Xia Meng. A portable multi-angle observation system (MAOS). National Invention Patent of China 201210589574.8, Classification: G01C1/00(2006.01)I., 2012.
Selected Academic Awards：
National scholarship for graduate students (PhD), Ministry of Education, China, 2014
National scholarship for graduate students (Master), Ministry of Education, China, 2012
Outstanding Bachelor Thesis, Beijing Normal University, 2012
Best Poster Award, International Workshop on Terrestrial Water Cycle Observation and Modeling from Space: Innovation and Reliability of Data Products, 2013
First-Class Scholarship for Academic Achievement, Beijing Normal University, 2015
First-Class Scholarship for Academic Achievement, Beijing Normal University, 2013
Second-Prize, “Challenge Cup” Capital Undergraduate Curricular Academic Science and Technology works, 2012
First-Prize, “Jingshi Cup” Curricular Academic Science and Technology works, Beijing Normal University, 2012