Linghong Ke

Education

lPh.D. in Remote sensing and Geo-informatics.The Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Hong Kong; June 2016

Dissertation title: Remote sensing study of mountain glaciers over the Qinghai-Tibet plateau

lM.Sc. in Remote sensing and GIS. Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research (IGSNRR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); Beijing, China; July 2011

Thesis title: Remote sensing analysis on vegetation change and its relationship with temperature dynamics in Northeast Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

lB.Sc. in Geographical information system. Wuhan University; Wuhan, China; July 2008

Awards

Excellent Student Award, the Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2011

Excellent Graduate Award, Wuhan University, 2008

Excellent Student Scholarship, Wuhan University. Award less than 5% students university-wide, 2006 - 2007

Top Scholarship, Wuhan University. Award less than 1% students university-wide, 2005

Academic apprenticeships

Research Assistant/Associate:

lModel-based Adaptive Water Body Mapping and Lake Modeling from SWOT/KaRIn；NASA & JPL funded project

lDeveloping Decadal High Resolution Global Lake Products from LDCM and Landsat Archive; USGS funded project

lMountain Glacier Mass Balance around the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau from SAR Interferometry and Satellite Altimetry (Hong Kong RGC funded project 514611. PolyU, HK, 2012-2015)

lInvestigation on climate change of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau based on MODIS data. IGSNRR, CAS, 2009-2011

Teaching Assistant:

lConstruction for better living (CE1000). PolyU, 2013.

lIntroduction to Map Design (0800621). Wuhan University, 2008.

Research interests

Integrating geo-informatics and remote sensing techniques including optical, thermal infrared and satellite altimetry for environment monitoring, with focuses on cryosphere change in High Mountain Asia and its hydrologic impacts, including:

lInvestigating multi-dimensional glacier change (length, area, volume and mass balance) and the driving forces

lGlacier mapping based on multi-source remote sensing data

lRemote sensing of land surface temperature and climate change

Selected Publications

Linghong Ke, Xiaoli Ding*, Wenkai Li & Qiu Bo. Remote sensing of glacier change in the central Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the relationship with changing climate. (2017). Remote Sensing,9(2), 114.

Linghong Ke*, Xiaoli Ding*, Lei Zhang, Jun Hu, C.K. Shum, & Zhong Lu. (2016). Compiling a new glacier inventory for Southeastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau from Landsat and PALSAR data. Journal of glaciology, 62(233),579-592.

Linghong Ke., Xiaoli Ding*, & Chunqiao Song. (2015). Heterogeneous glacier dynamics and glacier surges over west Kunlun Mountain observed by ICESat and Landsat. Remote sensing of Environment, 168, 13–23.

Linghong Ke., Xiaoli Ding*, & Chunqiao Song. (2015). Estimation of mass balance of Dongkemadi glaciers with multiple methods based on multi-mission satellite data. Quaternary International, 371, 58–66.

Linghong Ke, & Chunqiao Song*. (2014). Remotely sensed surface temperature variation of an inland saline lake over the central Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. ISPRSJournal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 98, 157-167.

Chunqiao Song, & Linghong Ke*. (2014). Recent Dramatic Variations of China’s Two Largest Freshwater Lakes: Natural Process or Influenced by the Three Gorges Dam? Environmental science & technology, 48 (3), 2086–2087.

Chunqiao Song*, Linghong Ke*, Bo Huang, & Keith S Richards. (2014). Can mountain glacier melting explains the GRACE-observed mass loss in the southeast Tibetan Plateau: from a climate perspective? Global and Planetary Change, 24, 1-9.

Linghong Ke, Xiaoli Ding*, & Chunqiao Song. (2013). Reconstruction of Time-Series MODIS LST in Central Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Using Geostatistical Approach. IEEE Geosciences and Remote Sensing Letters. 10(6), 1602-1606.

Linghong Ke*, Xiaoli Ding, Lei Zhang, C.K. Shum, Cheinway Hwang, Yuanni Luo (2016). Remote sensing of glacier distribution and change over the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Earth Observation and Remote Sensing Applications (EORSA), 2016 4th International Workshop on. IEEE, 2016: 442-446.

Linghong Ke*, Chunqiao Song, & Xiaoli Ding. (2012). Reconstructing complete MODIS LST based on temperature gradients in northeastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS): 3505-3508.

Chunqiao Song, Linghong Ke, Keith S Richards, Yuanzheng Cui. (2016). Homogenization of surface temperature data in High Mountain Asia through comparison of reanalysis data and station observations. International Journal of Climatology, 36(3), 1088-1101.

Chunqiao Song, Yongwei Sheng, Linghong Ke, Yong Nie, & Jida Wang. (2016). Glacial lake evolution in the southeastern Tibetan Plateau and the cause of rapid expansion of proglacial lakes linked to glacial-hydrogeomorphic processes. Journal of Hydrology, 540, 504-514.

Chunqiao Song, Bo Huang*, Keith Richards, Linghong Ke, & Vu Hien Phan. (2014). Accelerated lake expansion on the Tibetan Plateau in the 2000s: Induced by glacial melting or other processes? Water Resource Research, 50(4), 3170-3186.

Chunqiao Song, Huang Bo*, Linghong Ke. (2013). Modelling and analysis on the lake water storage changes of Tibetan Plateau from multi-mission satellite data. Remote Sensing of Environment, 135, 25-35.

Data Sharing

Ke L, Ding X. A glacier inventory for the southeastern Qinghai–Tibet Plateau based on Landsat and PALSAR data (2009–2014). Science Data Bank. DOI: 10.11922/sciencedb.376. (http://www.sciencedb.cn/dataSet/handle/376)

Conference presentations

“SWOT Global Layover Modeling and Global Lake Observability from SWOT” by Sheng Y., Ke L., Song C., et al.. The 2016 American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting; San Francisco, California, U.S.A; December 2016.

“The spatial variable glacier mass loss over the southeast Tibet Plateau and the climate cause analyses” by Ke L., Ding X., Song C., et al.. The 2016 American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting; San Francisco, California, U.S.A; December 2016

“Remote sensing of glacier distribution and change over the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau” by Ke L., Ding X., Song C. et al.. The Second International Workshop on Earth Observation and Remote Sensing Application, Guangzhou China; July 2016.

“Wreckage of glaciers over central Qinghai-Tibet Plateau from multi-mission satellite data and its relationship with climate” by Ke L., Ding X., and Song C.. The 34th Asian Conference on Remote Sensing 2013, Bali, Indonesia; October 2013.

“Reconstructing Time-Series of MODIS LST Imagery Using Geostatistical Method” by Ke L., Ding X., and Song C.. The Second International Workshop on Earth Observation and Remote Sensing Application, Shanghai, China, June 2012.

“Reconstructing complete MODIS LST based on temperature gradients in Northeastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau” by Ke L., Song C., and Ding X.. Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2012 IEEE International; Munich, Germany; July 2012

Professional Service

AGU membership

Peer reviewer for journals including ‘Environmental Science & Technology’, ‘Hydrology and Earth Science System’, ‘Global and Planetary Change’, ‘Remote Sensing’, ‘Remote Sensing of Environment’, ‘Scientific Reports’