Yang Tang

Photogrammetry, remote sensing and hyperspectral imaging.

PhD student with Rongjun Qin at The Ohio State University

Research

1,045

citations on Google Scholar

192023
1602024
3192025
5262026 so far
Citations per year. Google Scholar, October 2026.
h-index
12
papers in the top 1% of their field (Web of Science)
3
peer reviews of 71 manuscripts
103
journals and conferences reviewed for
25

Honors

2025

No. 2of the year's papers in PE&RS

Talbert Abrams Award, First Honorable Mention

The highest scientific paper award of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS): second place among all papers published in its journal that year, for On the transferability of semantic segmentation for very-high-resolution remote sensing data of multi-city environments.

2026

Top 0.04%2 of 4,812 papers

Annual Best Paper Award, Second Prize

Remote Sensing, for Remote sensing object detection in the deep learning era: a review. One of two papers chosen from the 4,812 the journal published in 2024.

2023 to 2025

Top 1%of the field, three times

Three highly cited papers

Each in the top 1% of its field on Web of Science: the object detection review, the image fusion overview and the low-cost hyperspectral imaging paper.

2025

Since 1934ASPRS's flagship journal

Best Reviewer

ASPRS and the editorial board of Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, the society's journal since 1934.

More honors

  • Editor's Choice paper, Remote Sensing: the object detection review2025
  • Most Creative Visual Design, CEGE Graduate Research Expo, The Ohio State University 1 of 57 · top 1.8%2025
  • Editor's Choice paper, Sensors: the low-cost hyperspectral imaging paper2024
  • Second Place Poster Award, Interdisciplinary Research Fall Forum, Translational Data Analytics Institute, The Ohio State University 2 of 45 · top 4.4%2023
  • Excellent Student and Excellent Graduate, Technical University of Denmark2013
  • Excellent Volunteer, Young Scientists Senior, Denmark2013
  • Outstanding Student Leader, Wroclaw University of Technology2009

Scholarships

  • JASSO short-term scholarship, full, The University of Tokyo 2 of 225 · top 0.9%2012 to 2013
  • DTU scholarship, full, Technical University of Denmark 22 of about 2,600 · top 0.8%2011 to 2013
  • Academic Performance Scholarship, full, Wroclaw University of Technology 3 of 136 · top 2.2%2009 to 2011

Papers

2026

  1. Olbedo: An albedo and shading aerial dataset for large-scale outdoor environments

    Shuang Song, Debao Huang, Deyan Deng, Haolin Xiong, Yang Tang, Yajie Zhao, Rongjun Qin

    IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)

    15

2025

  1. Synthetic data matters: re-training with geo-typical synthetic labels for building detection

    Shuang Song, Yang Tang, Rongjun Qin

    IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

    60
  2. On the transferability of semantic segmentation for very-high-resolution remote sensing data of multi-city environments

    Rongjun Qin, Guixiang Zhang, Yang Tang

    Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing 91 (8), 517–528

    Talbert Abrams Award, First Honorable Mention

    38
  3. Weakly supervised land-cover classification of high-resolution images with low-resolution labels through optimized label refinement

    Yang Tang, Guixiang Zhang, Jung Kuan Liu, Rongjun Qin

    International Journal of Remote Sensing 46 (5), 1913–1937

    87
  4. Shaping school for childhood myopia: the association between floor area ratio of school environment and myopia in China

    Danqi Zeng, Yahan Yang, Yang Tang, Lanqin Zhao, Xun Wang, Dongyuan Yun, Wenben Chen, et al.

    British Journal of Ophthalmology 109 (1), 146–151

    87
  5. Geodesy for climate actions

    C. K. Shum, Shengdao Wang, Yu Zhang, Yixin Xiao, Yang Tang, Metehan Uz, Kazim Atman, et al.

    IAG Scientific Assembly 2025

    2

2024

  1. Remote sensing object detection in the deep learning era: a review

    Shengxi Gui, Shuang Song, Rongjun Qin, Yang Tang

    Remote Sensing 16 (2), 327

    Best Paper Award, Second PrizeTop 1% highly citedEditor's Choice

    453
  2. Image fusion in remote sensing: an overview and meta-analysis

    Hessah Albanwan, Rongjun Qin, Yang Tang

    Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing 90 (12), 755–775

    Top 1% highly cited

    69
  3. Correlation between building density and myopia for Chinese children: a multi-center and cross-sectional study

    Yahan Yang, Yang Tang, Duoru Lin, Haotian Lin

    Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science 65 (7), 157

    37

2023

  1. Active and low-cost hyperspectral imaging for the spectral analysis of a low-light environment

    Yang Tang, Shuang Song, Shengxi Gui, Weilun Chao, Chinmin Cheng, Rongjun Qin

    Sensors 23 (3), 1437

    Top 1% highly citedEditor's Choice

    95
  2. Satellite-based tools enabling India forest sustainability

    Ying Zuo, C. K. Shum, Soumitri Das, Yuanyuan Jia, Orhan Akyilmaz, Yu Zhang, Yang Tang, et al.

    XXVIII General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG)

2022

  1. 63
  2. Sat2LoD2: a software for automated LoD-2 building reconstruction from satellite-derived orthophoto and digital surface model

    Shengxi Gui, Rongjun Qin, Yang Tang

    The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences 43, 379–386

    17
  3. 2

2021

  1. Design of remote sensing image data analysis and processing platform based on environmental monitoring

    Yang Tang, Jiongchao Yan, Yueqi Wu, Jie Hong, Lei Xu, Zhangrui Lin

    Journal of Physics: Conference Series 2136 (1), 012056

    3

2019

  1. Study on microclimate observation network for urban unit: a case study in a campus of Shenzhen, China

    Xin Lai, Yang Tang, Lei Li, PakWai Chan, Qingfeng Zeng

    Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C 110, 117–124

    15
  2. 基于物联网的城市单元体微气候环境观测管理模式

    曾庆锋, 高瑞泉, 温精敏, 李磊, 许磊, 汤洋, 赖鑫

    收藏 3

2013

  1. Analyzing patterns from Twitter happiness referring stock market and American unemployment rate announcement

    Yang Tang, Yoshihiro Kawahara, Tohru Asami, Danushka Bollegala

    Proceedings of the IEICE General Conference 2013, BS-1-12

Numbers on the right are Google Scholar citations, October 2026. Google Scholar profile

Education and experience

Education

  1. 2021 to present

    PhD, Civil, Environmental and Geodetic Engineering

    The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

    Geospatial data analysis. Advisor: Rongjun Qin

  2. 2012 to 2013

    MSc exchange, Information Science and Technology

    The University of Tokyo, Japan

    Advisors: Tohru Asami and Yoshihiro Kawahara

  3. 2011 to 2013

    MSc, Digital Media Engineering

    Technical University of Denmark

    Advisor: Michael Kai Petersen

  4. 2008 to 2011

    BSc, Computer Science

    Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland

    Graduated half a year early

Experience

  1. 2014 to 2020

    Data scientist

    Shenzhen Bixuange Technology Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, China

    Data visualization projects and their analysis

  2. 2013

    Intern

    MapMotion Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan

  3. 2010 to 2011

    Teaching assistant, Artificial Intelligence

    Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland

    Course taught by Halina Kwasnicka

  4. 2010

    Artificial intelligence programmer

    Vratis, Wroclaw, Poland

    KnaiME, an AI library for KNIME, including ant colony and evolutionary algorithms

Service

Reviewer

103
reviews
71
manuscripts
25
journals and conferences

Including these journals, in order of their impact factor, and two conferences.

  1. 12.9impact factor ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Elsevier · ISPRS
  2. 11.3impact factor Additive Manufacturing Elsevier
  3. 8.8impact factor IEEE Network IEEE Communications Society
  4. 7.7impact factor IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics IEEE
  5. 6.3impact factor IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing IEEE GRSS
  6. 4.9impact factor Scientific Reports Nature Portfolio
  7. 4.3impact factor Remote Sensing MDPI
  8. 4.0impact factor Sensors MDPI
  9. 3.9impact factor Geocarto International Taylor & Francis
  10. 3.5impact factor Land MDPI
  11. 3.5impact factor Frontiers in Remote Sensing Frontiers
  12. 3.0impact factor Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing ASPRS
  13. No. 2of all publications, Google Scholar Metrics 2025 CVPR IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  14. GRSSflagship symposium of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society IGARSS IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium

Impact factors from Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports 2025 (released June 2026). The two conferences have no impact factor; CVPR's place is Google Scholar's ranking of every publication by h5-index.

Member

  • International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS)since 2023
  • American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS)since 2023
  • IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Societysince 2024
  • American Geophysical Union (AGU)since 2024
  • European Geosciences Union (EGU)since 2024
  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)since 2024