Geosciences and remote sensing for environmental change (GRSEC)
Research Field
Hsueh-Ching Wang serves as an assistant professor at Department of Earth and Life Science in University of Taipei in Taiwan. Dr. Wang’s research mainly focused on monitoring forest ecosystem and its interactions with disturbance such as tropical cyclone, drought, land-use/land-cover changes, and extreme events by cross-scale interactions of field inventory and remote sensing.
Geosciences and remote sensing for environmental change (GRSEC) is a lab in environmental and disaster applications for remote sensing and geospatial data. The GRSEC is directed by Hsueh-Ching Wang at the Department of Earth and Life Science in University of Taipei. Our lab focuses on environmental changes, disaster monitor and analysis, ecosystem ecology, and the impacts of disturbance on forest using cross-scales techniques from field to satellite images.
My research is using remote sensing to evaluate the pattern of vegetation dynamics, which is critical for forest carbon cycle, in subtropical and tropical forests. My research has developed an empirical equation to evaluate time-series litterfall at national scale. Disturbance is a force to alter forest regeneration, composition, structure and function within a short period, and it can sometimes remove large amounts of biomass or derive substantial litterfall to change forest carbon stocks and flux. My research uses vegetation phenology analysis by remote sensing to extract the spatiotemporal dynamics of vegetation to monitor its relationships and fluctuations between climatic factors such as disturbances. It is critical to understand the resistant and resilience of forest ecosystem to climate change in Taiwan.
1. Chang CT*, JY Lee, JM Chiang, HC Wang, JC Huang, CW Tseng, CH Wang, SW Fu (2022) Characterizing the climate-phenology-hydrology associations in a subtropical forested watershed, central Taiwan. Ecological Indicators 145: 109650.
2. Wang HC, CT Chang (2021) The dynamic of vegetation growth with regular climate and climatic fluctuations in a subtropical mountainous island, Taiwan. Remote Sensing, 13, 3298.
3. Lin YT, WB Whitman, DC Coleman, SH Jien, HC Wang, CY Chiu (2021) Soil bacterial communities at the treeline in subtropical alpine areas. Catena, 201, 105205.
4. Wang HC, G Tian, CP Chen, EH Chang, CY Chou, CR Chiou, CY Chiu* (2019) Response of humic acids and soil organic matter to vegetation replacement in subtropical high mountain forests. Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences, 124, 3727-3736.
PhD Geography, National Taiwan University, Taiwan MA .Geography, National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan BA Geography, National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan