XULIN GUO - Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Saskatchewan
XULIN GUO is geographer specialized on remote sensing and biogeography. She has received her BSc and MSc from Beijing Forestry University studying the forest management and forest economics respectively. After teaching for 10 years at Beijing Forestry Staff Management College in China, she moved to United States to pursue her PhD at University of Kansas. During the less than five year period, she applied remote sensing techniques on tall grass prairie discrimination. In 2001, she drove straight to the mix grass prairie and started her new research at Grasslands National Park of Canada. In the past five years, she has conducted intensive field data collection, starting from upland, and moved to sloped grassland, valley grassland, and shrub communities gradually with the park and at surrounding pastures. Her studies include biophysical and spectral understanding, spatial, vertical and temporal heterogeneity characterization, land use land cover classification and change detection, as well as wildlife habitat modeling.
For further information, please see
http://homepage.usask.ca/~xug991
List of recent related scientific contributions:
He, Y., X. Guo, and B. Si. 2006. Detecting grassland spatial variation by a wavelet approach. International Journal of Remote Sensing (In Press).
Zhang, C., X. Guo, J.F. Wilmshurst, and R. Sissons. 2006. Application of Radarsat imagery on grassland biophysical heterogeneity assessment. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing (In Press).
Black, S. and X. Guo. 2006. Estimation of grassland CO2 exchange rates using hyperspectral remote sensing techniques. International Journal of Remote Senisng (In Press).
He, Y., X. Guo, J. Wilmshurst, and B. Si. 2006. Studying mixed grassland ecosystems II: optimum pixel size. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing, 32(2): 108-115.
He, Y., X. Guo, and J. Wilmshurst. 2006. Studying mixed grassland ecosystems I: suitable hyperspectral vegetation indices. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing, 32(2): 98-107.
Black, S., X. Guo, and C. Zhang. 2005. Evaluation of photosynthesis rates of introduced and native species in a mixed grassland ecosystem. Prairie Perspectives. 8:1-10.
He, Y., X., Guo, and Y. Zheng. 2005. Impact of Climate Change with Enhanced UV-B Radiation on Chinese Agricultural NPP. Prairie Perspectives. 8:50-60.
Zhang, C., X. Guo, J.F. Wilmshurst, and R. Sissons. 2005. The evaluation of broadband vegetation indices on monitoring northern mixed grassland. Prairie Perspectives. 8:23-36.
Guo, X. C. Zhang, R. Sissons, and J.F. Wilmshurst. 2005. Bird populations and remote sensing. Prairie Perspectives. 8:37-49.
Guo, X. C. Zhang, J.F. Wilmshurst, and R. Sissons. 2005. Monitoring grassland health with remote sensing approaches. Prairie Perspectives. 8:11-22.
Guo, X., W. Gao, P. Richard, Y. Lu, Y. Zheng, and E. Pietroniro. Canadian prairie drought assessment through MODIS vegetation indices. Proc. SPIE Vol. 5544, p.149-158, Remote Sensing and Modeling of Ecosystems for Sustainability. Wei Gao, Davis R. Shaw, Eds. Nov 2004. [Invited Paper]
Guo, X., J. Wilmshurst, S. McCanny, P. Fargey, and P. Richard. 2004. Measuring spatial and vertical heterogeneity of grasslands using remote sensing techniques. Journal of Environmental Informatics. 3(1):24-32.
Guo, X., K.P. Price and J.M. Stiles. 2003. Grasslands Discriminant Analysis Using Landsat TM Multitemporal Data. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing (PE&RS). 69(11):1255-1262. Guo, X. 2003. Assessing grassland vegetation dynamics and climatological variability in the Mixed Prairie ecosystem, Prairie Perspectives. 6:32-46.
Guo, X. 2002. Discrimination of Saskatchewan prairie ecoregions using multitemporal 10-day composite NDVI data. Prairie Perspectives. 5:174-186.
Price, K.P., X. Guo and J.M. Stiles. 2002. Comparison of Landsat TM and ERS-2 SAR data for discriminating among six grassland types in eastern Kansas. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. 37:157-171.
Price, K.P., X. Guo and J.M. Stiles. 2002. Optimal Landsat TM band combinations and vegetation indices for discrimination of six grassland types in eastern Kansas. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 23(23):5031-5042.
Guo, X., K.P. Price and J.M. Stiles. 2000. Biophysical and spectral characteristics of three land management practices on cool and warm season grasslands in eastern Kansas. Natural Resources Research. 9(4):321-331.
Guo, X., K.P. Price and J.M. Stiles. 2000. Modeling biophysical factors for grasslands in eastern Kansas using Landsat TM data. The Transaction of Kansas Academy of Science. 103(3-4):122-138.