Postdoc, University of California – Berkeley
Ph.D. Geosciences, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany

Area of interest:
Remote sensing and digital image processing, image classification, information fusion, applications of
remote sensing and GIS in environment monitoring, computer cartography, GIS and GIScience

 

Representative Publications

Sun, W., 2020. Fractals. In Image processing and analysis methods, Manual of Remote Sensing (4th
edition). S. Morain, M. Renslow, and A. Budge (Eds.), American Society for Photogrammetry and
Remote Sensing (ASPRS) Press, Bethesda, MD, Chapter 7, 631-868.

Ni, W., Pang, Y., Zhang, Z., Sun, W., Liang, S., Chen. E., and Sun, G., 2019. Above-ground biomass.
In 2 nd edition of Advanced Remote Sensing: Terrestrial Information Extraction and Applications. S.
Liang and J. Wang (Eds.), Elsevier/Academic Press, Waltham, MA, Chapter 14, 544-581.

Wampler, P. J., Tarter, A., Bailis, R., Sander, K., and Sun, W., 2019. Discussion of forest definitions
and tree cover estimates for Haiti, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United
States of America (PNAS), 116 (12): 5202-5203.

Churches, C., Wampler, P. J., Sun, W., and Smith, A. J., 2014. Evaluation of forest cover estimates
for Haiti using supervised classification of Landsat data, International Journal of Applied Earth
Observation and Geoinformation, 30: 203–216.

Sun, F., Sun, W., Chen, J., and Gong, P., 2012. Comparison and improvement of methods for
identifying waterbodies in remotely sensed imagery, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 33(21):
6854-6875.

Oyana, T. J., Sun, W., and Sirikulchayanon, P., 2009. Buffering functions of mangroves in the 2004
tsunami, International Journal of Digital Earth, 2(3): 257–274.

Sun, W., Liang, S., Xu, G., Fang, H., and Dickinson, R., 2008. Mapping plant functional types from
MODIS data using multisource evidential reasoning, Remote Sensing of Environment, 112:1010–1024.
McDonald, P., Nielsen, C., Oyana, T., and Sun, W., 2008. Modelling habitat overlap among sympatric
mesocarnivores in Southern Illinois, USA, Ecological Modelling, 215:276-286.

Sun, W., 2006. Three new implementations of the triangular prism method for computing the fractal
dimension of remote sensing images, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 72(4):373-
382.

Sun, W., Xu, G., Gong, P., and Liang, S., 2006. Fractal analysis of remote sensing images: A review of
methods and applications, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 27(22):4963-4990.

Sun, W., 2004. Land-Use Classification Using High Resolution Satellite Imagery: A New Information
Fusion Method – An Application in Landau, Germany. Mainz: University of Mainz Press, ISBN: 3-
88250-049-2, 95 pages.

Sun, W., Heidt, V., Gong, P., and Xu, G., 2003. Information fusion for rural land-use classification
with high resolution satellite imagery, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing,
41(4):883-890.