Peer-Reviewed Journals (after 2020)

Salim, Z., Qiang, Y., Dixon, B., Yan, E., Covarrubias, S. (2025) “Did Official Flood Maps Work in Hurricane Helene? Systematic Evaluation of Official Flood Maps with Ground-truth Observations” International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 131. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2025.105912

Han, L., Qiang, Y., Ma, C., Li, X., Salim, Z., Bhandari, R., Alsharif, K., Jin, H. (2025) “Spatial Pattern and Socioeconomic Factors of 2022 Monkeypox Outbreak in the United States”. The Professional Geographer, 77(3), pp 229-240. DOI: 10.1080/00330124.2025.2474445

Ma, C., Qiang, Y., Zhang, K., (2024) “Uneven heat burden in the sunshine state: Spatial patterns and socio-economic disparities of heat-related illness in Florida”. Science of the Total Environment, Vol 958. DOI: doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.177985.

Salim, Z., Qiang, Y, Dixon, B., Collins, J. (2024) “A Disparate Disaster: Spatial Patterns of Building Damages and Associated Socio-Economic Factors by 2022 Hurricane Ian” Remote Sensing, Vol 16(20). DOI:10.3390/rs16203792

Carlson, K., Buttenfield, B. P., Qiang, Y. (2024). “Wetland Classification, Attribute Accuracy, and Scale” ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, Vol 13(3), 103. DOI: 10.3390/ijgi13030103

Du, J., Ye, X., Huang, X., Qiang, Y., and Zhu, C. (2024) “Unveiling multifaceted resilience: A heterogeneous graph neural network approach for analyzing locale recovery patterns”. Environment and Planning B. DOI:10.1177/23998083241288689

Abedin, J.; Zou, L., Yang, M.; Rohli, R.; Mandal, D.; Qiang, Y.; Akter, H.; Zhou, B.; Lin, B.; Cai, H. (2024) “Deciphering Spatial-Temporal Dynamics of Flood Exposure in the United States”. Sustainable Cities and Society. Vol 108 (1) DOI:10.1016/j.scs.2024.105444

Tian, H.; Hu, L.; Qiang, Y.; Zhou, B.; Yang, M.; Lin, B. (2024) “Unveiling Community Adaptations to Extreme Heat Events Using Mobile Phone Location Data”. Journal of Environmental Management. Vol 366. DOI:10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.121665

Xu, J., Qiang, Y., Cai, H. Zou, L. (2024) “Environmental justice implications of flood risk in the contiguous United States–a spatiotemporal assessment of flood exposure change from 2001 to 2019”. Cartography and Geographic Information Science. Vol 16(1), pp 2259-2278. DOI:10.1080/17538947.2023.2224087

Li, X., Qiang, Y., Cervone, G., (2024) “Using Human Mobility Data to Detect Evacuation Patterns in Hurricane Ian”. Annals of GIS. Vol 30(4). DOI:10.1080/19475683.2024.2341703

Qiang, Y., Zou, L., Cai, H. (2023) “Big Earth Data for quantitative measurement of community resilience: current challenges, progresses and future directions”. Big Earth Data. Vol 7(4), pp 1035-1057. DOI:10.1080/‌20964471‌.2023.2273594

Wians, R., Chen, Q., Qiang, Y., (2023) “Large-area automatic detection of shoreline stranded marine debris using deep learning”. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. vol. 124. DOI:10.1016/j.jag.2023.103515

Zhou, B., Zou, L., Hu, Y., Qiang, Y., Goldberg, D., (2023) “TopoBERT: a plug and play toponym recognition module harnessing fine-tuned BERT”. International Journal of Digital Earth. vol.16(1), pp 3045–64. DOI:10.1080/17538947.2023.2239794

Xu, J., Qiang, Y., Cai, H., Zou, L. (2023) “Power Outage and Environmental Justice in Winter Storm Uri: An Analytical Workflow Based on Nighttime Light Remote Sensing.” International Journal of Digital Earth, vol.14 (1), pp 2259–78. DOI:10.1080/17538947.2023.2224087

Qiang, Y., Buttenfield, B., Xu, J.*, (2022) “Analyzing Multi-Scale Spatial Pattern in a Pyramid Modeling Framework”. Cartography and Geographic Information Science. DOI: 10.1080‌/15230406‌.‌2022.‌2048419

Yang, M., Zou, L., Cai, H., Qiang, Y., Lin, B., Zhou, B., Abedin, J., Mandal, D. (2022). Spatial–Temporal Land Loss Modeling and Simulation in a Vulnerable Coast: A Case Study in Coastal Louisiana. Remote Sensing. vol.14 (4). DOI: 10.3390/rs14040896

Xu, J. & Qiang, Y. (2021) “Spatial Assessment of Community Resilience from 2012 Hurricane Sandy using Nighttime Light”, Remote Sensing. DOI: 10.3390/rs13204128 [access]

Xu, J. & Qiang, Y. (2021) “Analysing Information Diffusion in Natural Hazards using Retweets -a Case Study of 2018 Winter Storm Diego”, Annals of GIS DOI: 10.1080/19475683.2021.1954086 [access]

Peng, B., Huang, Q., Vongkusolkit, J., Gao, S., Wright, D. B., Fang, Z. N., Qiang, Y. (2020). “Urban Flood Mapping with Bi-temporal Multispectral Imagery via a Self-supervised Learning Framework” IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. DOI: 10.1109/‌JSTARS.‌2020.3047677

Qiang, Y., Buttenfield, B. P., Joseph, M. B., (2020) “How to Measure Distance on a Digital Terrain Surface and Why it Matters in Geographical Analysis”, Geographical Analysis. DOI: 10.1111/gean.12255 [pdf]

Qiang, Y., Huang, Q., Xu, J., (2020) “Observing Disaster Resilience from Space: Using Nighttime Lights to Model Economic Disturbance and Recovery Pattern in Natural Disaster”, Sustainable Cities and Society, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2020.102115 [pdf]

Qiang, Y., Xu. J., (2020) “Empirical assessment of road network resilience in natural hazards using crowdsourced traffic data”, International Journal of Geographical Information Science. vol: 12(34) pp.2434-2450. DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2019.1694681 [pdf]