Hui Lin

9.7k citations

278 papers · 7.5k · 2 hit papers · h-index 49

Impact in

Environmental Engineering top 0.2%
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
- Urban Heat Island Mitigation
Global and Planetary Change top 0.5%
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management

Papers in

Global and Planetary Change 106
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services 60
Atmospheric Science 95
- Remote Sensing and Land Use 43
- Cryospheric studies and observations 26

Co-authors: Hongsheng Zhang (26 shared papers)Min Chen (21 shared papers)Meng Zhang (14 shared papers)Yuanzhi Zhang (11 shared papers)Yaotong Cai (7 shared papers)Guonian Lü (7 shared papers)Peifeng Ma (18 shared papers)Fulong Chen (12 shared papers)
Journals: Remote Sensing (33 papers)International Journal of Remote Sensing (14 papers)Remote Sensing of Environment (11 papers)International Journal of Digital Earth (11 papers)Annals of GIS (11 papers)
Partner nations: China Hong Kong United States

In The Last Decade

Hui Lin

270 papers receiving 7.4k citations

Hui Lin's Hit Papers

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Revolutionizing ecological security pattern with multi-source data and deep learning: An adaptive generation approach 2025 · 23 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

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1	Spatial and temporal variability of precipitation maxima during 1960–2005 in the Yangtze River basin and possible association with large-scale circulation Journal of Hydrology ·Qiang Zhang, Chong‐Yu Xu, Zengxin Zhang, Yongqin David Chen, (unknown), Hui Lin	2007	328
2	Improving the impervious surface estimation with combined use of optical and SAR remote sensing images Remote Sensing of Environment ·Yuanzhi Zhang, Hongsheng Zhang, Hui Lin	2013	196
3	Urban morphology detection and computation for urban climate research Landscape and Urban Planning ·Yong Xu, Chao Ren, Peifeng Ma, Justin Ho, Weiwen Wang, Kevin Ka‐Lun Lau, Hui Lin, Edward Ng	2017	195
4	Reflections and speculations on the progress in Geographic Information Systems (GIS): a geographic perspective International Journal of Geographical Information Systems ·Guonian Lü, Michael Batty, Josef Strobl, Hui Lin, A‐Xing Zhu, Min Chen	2018	182
5	Speciated OVOC and VOC emission inventories and their implications for reactivity-based ozone control strategy in the Pearl River Delta region, China The Science of The Total Environment ·Jiamin Ou, Junyu Zheng, Rongrong Li, (unknown), (unknown), Liuju Zhong, Hui Lin	2015	168
6	Virtual Geographic Environments (VGEs): A New Generation of Geographic Analysis Tool Earth-Science Reviews ·Hui Lin, Min Chen, Guonian Lü, Qing Zhu, Jiahua Gong, Xiong You, Yongning Wen, Bingli Xu, Mingyuan Hu	2013	167
7	Evaluation and analysis of ecosystem service value based on land use/cover change in Dongting Lake wetland Ecological Indicators ·Xiangren Long, Hui Lin, Xuexian An, Shudan Chen, Shuaiyang Qi, Meng Zhang Hit paper breakdown →	2022	139
8	Virtual Geographic Environment: A Workspace for Computer-Aided Geographic Experiments Annals of the Association of American Geographers ·Hui Lin, Min Chen, Guonian Lü	2012	135
9	Mapping paddy rice by the object-based random forest method using time series Sentinel-1/Sentinel-2 data Advances in Space Research ·Yaotong Cai, Hui Lin, Meng Zhang	2019	124
10	Interaction between permafrost and infrastructure along the Qinghai–Tibet Railway detected via jointly analysis of C- and L-band small baseline SAR interferometry Remote Sensing of Environment ·Fulong Chen, Hui Lin, Zhen Li, Quan Chen, Jianmin Zhou	2012	114
11	Surface deformation detected by ALOS PALSAR small baseline SAR interferometry over permafrost environment of Beiluhe section, Tibet Plateau, China Remote Sensing of Environment ·Fulong Chen, Hui Lin, Wei Zhou, Tianhua Hong, Gang Wang	2013	113
12	Textural–Spectral Feature-Based Species Classification of Mangroves in Mai Po Nature Reserve from Worldview-3 Imagery Remote Sensing ·Ting Wang, Hongsheng Zhang, Hui Lin, Chaoyang Fang	2015	112
13	Remotely sensing large- and small-scale ground subsidence: A case study of the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area of China Remote Sensing of Environment ·Peifeng Ma, Weixi Wang, Bowen Zhang, Jili Wang, Guoqiang Shi, Guangqing Huang, Fulong Chen, Liming Jiang, Hui Lin	2019	110
14	A decreasing glacier mass balance gradient from the edge of the Upper Tarim Basin to the Karakoram during 2000–2014 Scientific Reports ·Hui Lin, Gang Li, Lan Cuo, Andrew Hooper, Qinghua Ye	2017	101
15	NDVI and vegetation phenology dynamics under the influence of sunshine duration on the Tibetan plateau International Journal of Climatology ·Hongshuo Wang, Desheng Liu, Hui Lin, Álvaro Montenegro, Xiaolin Zhu	2014	98
16	Phenology-based classification of vegetation cover types in Northeast China using MODIS NDVI and EVI time series International Journal of Remote Sensing ·Enping Yan, Guangxing Wang, Hui Lin, Chaozong Xia, Hua Sun	2015	98
17	Mapping wetland using the object-based stacked generalization method based on multi-temporal optical and SAR data International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation ·Yaotong Cai, Xinyu Li, Meng Zhang, Hui Lin	2020	97
18	An adaptive surface filter for airborne laser scanning point clouds by means of regularization and bending energy ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing ·Han Hu, Yulin Ding, Qing Zhu, Bo Wu, Hui Lin, Zhiqiang Du, Yeting Zhang, Yunsheng Zhang	2014	94
19	Monitoring Sugarcane Growth Using ENVISAT ASAR Data IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing ·Hui Lin, Jinsong Chen, Zhiyuan Pei, Songling Zhang, Xianzhi Hu	2009	86
20	Coupling of sea level and tidal range changes, with implications for future water levels Scientific Reports ·Adam T. Devlin, David A. Jay, Stefan A. Talke, Edward D. Zaron, Jiayi Pan, Hui Lin	2017	82

About Hui Lin

Hui Lin is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, Ecology and Aerospace Engineering, having authored 278 papers that have together received 7.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (70 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (60 papers), Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (45 papers), Remote Sensing and Land Use (43 papers), Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques (31 papers), Urban Heat Island Mitigation (29 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (26 papers) and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (22 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Environmental Engineering (2.1k citations), Global and Planetary Change (2.8k citations), Atmospheric Science (2.3k citations), Geography, Planning and Development (442 citations) and Ecology (2.0k citations). Hui Lin has collaborated with scholars based in China, Hong Kong and United States. Frequent co-authors include Hongsheng Zhang, Min Chen, Meng Zhang, Yuanzhi Zhang, Yaotong Cai, Guonian Lü, Peifeng Ma, Fulong Chen, Chaoyang Fang and Xinyu Li. Their work appears in journals such as Remote Sensing, International Journal of Remote Sensing, Remote Sensing of Environment, International Journal of Digital Earth and Annals of GIS.

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