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Uludere Aragon, N., Xie, Y., Bigelow, D., Lark, T. J., & Eagle, A. J. (2024). The realistic potential of soil carbon sequestration in US croplands for climate mitigation. Earth's Future, 12(6), e2023EF003866. 

Xie, Y., Spawn-Lee, S. A., Radeloff, V. C., Yin, H., Robertson, G. P., & Lark, T. J. (2024). Cropland abandonment between 1986 and 2018 across the United States: spatiotemporal patterns and current land uses. Environmental Research Letters, 19(4), 044009. 

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Xie, Y., Hunter, M., Sorensen, A., Nogeire-McRae, T., Murphy, R., Suraci, J.P., Lischka, S., Lark, T.J., 2023. U.S. Farmland under Threat of Urbanization: Future Development Scenarios to 2040. Land, 12, 574. doi: 10.3390/land12030574

Luo, K., Lu, L., Xie, Y., Chen, F., Yin, F., & Li, Q., 2023. "Crop type mapping in the central part of the North China Plain using Sentinel-2 time series and machine learning." Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 205, 107577.

Aung T., Qverland I., Vakulchuk R., and Xie Y., 2022. "The environmental burden of special economic zones on the coastal and marine environment: A remote sensing assessment in Myanmar." Environmental Research Applications: Society and Environment, 100809. doi: 10.1016/j.rsase.2022.100809

Zhang, C., Dong, J., Xie, Y., Zhang, X., and Ge, Q., 2022. "Mapping irrigated croplands in China using a synergetic training sample generating method, machine learning classifier, and Google Earth Engine." International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 112, 102888. doi: 10.1016/j.jag.2022.102888

Yang, J., Shi, Q., Menenti, M., Xie, Y., Wu, Z., Xu, Y. and Abbas, S., 2022. "Characterizing the thermal effects of vegetation on urban surface temperature." Urban Climate, 44, p.101204. doi: 10.1016/j.uclim.2022.101204

Chen W., Zhou Y., Xie Y., Chen G., Ding K. J., & Li D., 2022. Estimating spatial and temporal patterns of urban building anthropogenic heat using a bottom-up city building heat emission model. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 177, 105996 

Xie Y., Gibbs H., and Lark T.J., 2021. "LANID-US: annual 30-m resolution irrigation maps for the conterminous United States, 1997-2017." Earth System Science Data, 13(12), 5689-5710. doi: 10.5194/essd-13-5689-2021

Xie Y. and Lark T.J., 2021. " Mapping annual irrigation from Landsat imagery and environmental variables across the conterminous United States." Remote Sensing of Environment, 260, 1-17. doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2021.112445

Fu, H., Shao, Z., Fu, P., Zhan, W., Xie, Y., & Cheng, T. (2021). "Reconciling the inconsistency of annual temperature cycles modelled from Landsat and MODIS LSTs through a percentile approach. " International Journal of Remote Sensing, 42(20), 7907-7930.

Ren J., Shao Y., Wan H., and Xie Y., 2021. "A two-step mapping of irrigated corn with multi-temporal MODIS and Landsat Analysis Ready Data." ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 176, 69-82, doi: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2021.04.007.

Aung T., Qverland I., Vakulchuk R., and Xie Y., 2021. "Using satellite data and machine learning to study conflict-induced environmental and socioeconomic destruction in data-poor areas: The case of the Rakhine conflict." Environmental Research Communications, 3(2), 025005. 

Yin H., …, Xie Y., & Radeloff V. C., 2020. "Monitoring cropland abandonment with Landsat time series". Remote Sensing of Environment, 246, 111873. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2020.111873 

Xie Y., Lark T. J., Brown J. F., & Gibbs H. K., 2019. "Mapping irrigated cropland extent across the conterminous United States at 30 m resolution using a semi-automatic training approach on Google Earth Engine." ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 155, 136-149. doi:10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2019.07.005

Xie Y., Weng Q., and Fu P., 2019. "Temporal variations of artificial nighttime lights and their implications for urbanization in the conterminous United States, 2013–2017." Remote Sensing of Environment, 225: 160-174. doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2019.03.008

Lu L., Weng Q., Xie Y., Guo H., & Li Q., 2019. "An assessment of global electric power consumption using the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program-Operational Linescan System nighttime light imagery." Energy, 189, 116351. doi:10.1016/j.energy.2019.116351

Fu P., Xie Y., Moore C. E., Myint S. W., & Bernacchi C. J., 2019. "A comparative analysis of anthropogenic CO2 emissions at city level using OCO‐2 observations: A global perspective." Earth's Future.

Fu P., Xie Y., Weng Q., Myint S., Meacham-Hensold K., & Bernacchi C., 2019. "A physical model-based method for retrieving urban land surface temperatures under cloudy conditions." Remote Sensing of Environment, 230, 111191. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2019.05.010 

Zou, Y., Peng, H., Liu, G., Yang, K., Xie, Y., & Weng, Q., 2017. "Monitoring urban clusters expansion in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, China, using time-series nighttime light images." Remote Sensing, 9(10), 1007.

Xie Y. and Weng Q., 2017. "Spatiotemporally enhancing time-series DMSP/OLS nighttime lights for mapping large-scale urban dynamics." ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 128: 1-15. doi: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2017.03.003 

Xie Y. and Weng Q., 2016. "Updating urban extents with nighttime light imagery by using an object-based thresholding method." Remote Sensing of Environment 187: 1-13. doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2016.10.002

Xie Y. and Weng Q., 2016. "Detecting urban-scale dynamics of electricity consumption at Chinese cities using time-series DMSP-OLS nighttime light imageries." Energy 100: 177-189. doi: 10.1016/j.energy.2016.01.058

Xie Y. and Weng Q., 2016. "World energy consumption pattern as revealed by DMSP-OLS nighttime light imagery." GIScience & Remote Sensing: 1-18. doi: 10.1080/15481603.2015.1124488

Li Q., Lu L., Weng Q., Xie Y., and Guo H., 2016. "Monitoring Urban Dynamics in the Southeast USA Using Time-Series DMSP/OLS Nightlight Imagery." Remote Sensing 8.7: 578. doi: 10.3390/rs8070578

Xie Y., Weng A., and Weng Q., 2015. "Population Estimation of Urban Residential Communities Using Remotely Sensed Morphologic Data." Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, IEEE 12.5: 1111-1115. doi: 10.1109/LGRS.2014.2385597