Institute for Computational Earth System Science
Ellison Hall 6808
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106

shi@icess.ucsb.edu

• Hydrology, Remote sensing
• GIS, Microwave modeling
• Image processing techniques
• Snow and soil parameters retrieval
• Snow science
• Stereology.

• B.A - Jan., 1982 - University of Lanzhou, China. Degree in Hydrogeology and Engineering Geology.
• M. A - June, 1987 - University of California, Santa Barbara. Degree in Geography.
• P.h. D - Dec., 1991 - University of California, Santa Barbara. Degree in Geography.

• March 1992 - present: Assistant research hydrologist at Institute for Computational Earth System Science, University of California, Santa Barbara.
• Dec. 1991 - March 1992: Post-graduate research assistant at Institute for Com-putational Earth System Science, University of California, Santa Barbara.
• 1985 - 1991: Graduate student reassert assistant and teaching assistant at Institute for Computational Earth System Science and Geography Department, University of California, Santa Barbara.
• 1984-1985: Research assistant at Depart-ment of Water Resource, Lanzhou Institute of Dessert Research, Chinese Academy, Lanzhou, China.
• 1982-1984: Assistant engineer, Institute of Water Conservation and Hydroelectric Research, Chinese Academy, Beijing, China.

Member of

• The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society
• American Geophysical Union.

Manuscript reviews for (1) IEEE Trans-actions on Geoscience and Remote Sens-ing, (2) Remote Sensing of Environment, (3) International Remote Sensing Journal, (4) International Remote Sensing News Letter, (5) Journal of Geophysical Research, (6) Water Resource, (7) Hydrological Processes, and (8) Journal of Glaciology.

Proposal reviews for National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

• October, 1993, Department of Hydrology and Water Resource, University of Arizona.
• Aug. 1997 - Pecking University in Beijing, Institute of Soil Research in Nanjing, Institute of Glaciology in Lanzhou, Institute of Remote Sensing and Applications in Beijing, Chinese Academy under the Technology Exchange Program organized by the United Nations.
• October, 1997, the E. O. Hulbert Colloquium Series at the Naval Research Laboratory organized by the Universities Space Research Association.
• Sept. 1998 - taught a short class in Pecking University under the Technology Exchange Program organized by the United Nations.
• 1997 and 1998 - lectures at "Microwave Remote Sensing" in Department of Geography, UCSB.

Professional Meetings: session organizer or chair person for IGARSS, PIERS, and SPIE.

• Validation of Snow Extent Products of MODIS and ASTER, $260,000 Oct. 1997 - 2000, NASA/EOS, PI - Jiancheng Shi, UCSB.
• SIR-C Investigations of Snow Properties in Alpine Terrain, $951,068 July 1988 - April. 1999, NASA/JPL PI - Jeff Dozier, Co-PI - Jiancheng Shi, UCSB.
• Remote Sensing of Snow Cover in the Himalaya and A'nyemaqquen Ranges, $21,013 July 1987-1988, California Space Institute, PI - Jeff Dozier, UCSB.
• ERS-2 Investigations of Snow Properties in Alpine Regions, ESA, PI - Jeff Dozier, Co-PI Jiancheng Shi, UCSB.
• Estimation Snow Properties Using ENVISAT Measurements for Snow Melting Prediction Alpine Regions, $0, 1999-2003, ESA, PI - Jiancheng Shi, UCSB.
• Using ENVISAT'S ASAR Measurements for Soil Moisture Estimation and Its Application in Hydrological Modeling, $0, 1999-2003, ESA, PI - Dr. Edwin T. Engman, NASA/GSFC, Co-PIs - Jiancheng Shi, UCSB and Guoqing Sun, NASA/GSFC.

Evaluating Usage of SAR in Measuring Snow Properties. $364,100 July 1999-2002, submitted to NASA as step 2 proposal, PI - Jiancheng Shi, UCSB.

J. Shi, R. E. Davis, and J. Dozier, "Stereological determination of dry snow parameters for discrete microwave modeling", Annals of Glaciology, pp. 295-299, vol 17, 1993.

J. Shi and J. Dozier, "Measurement of snow and glacier covered areas by single-polarization SAR", Annals of Glaciology, pp. 72-76, vol. 17, 1993.

J. van Zyl, B. D. Chapman, P. Dubois, and J. Shi, "The effect of topography on SAR calibration", IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 31, no. 5, pp. 1036-1043, 1993.

J. Shi, J. Dozier, and H. Rott, "Snow mapping in alpine regions with synthetic aperture radar", IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 152-158, 1994.

J. Shi and J. Dozier, "Inferring snow wetness using SIR-C C-band polarimetric synthetic aperture radar", IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 33, no. 4, pp. 905-914, 1995.

M. M. Brugman, A. Pietroniro, and J. Shi, "Mapping Alpine Snow and Ice Using Remote Sensing at Wapta Icefield", Journal of Canadian Remote Sensing, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 127-136, 1996.

L. Tsang, K. Pak, R. Weeks, J. Shi, and H. Rott, "Electromagnetic Wave Scattering from Real-life Rough-surface Profiles and Profiles Based on an Averaged Spectrum", Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, vol. 12, no. 5, pp 258-261, 1996.

J. Shi and J. Dozier, "Mapping Seasonal Snow with SIR-C/X-SAR in Mountainous Areas", Remote Sensing Environment, vol. 59, no. 2, pp. 294-307, 1997.

J. Wang, E. T. Engman, P. O'Neill, J. Shi, and A. Hsu, "Evaluation of Current Soil Moisture Algorithms from SIR-C Image Data", Remote Sensng Environment, vol 59, no. 2, pp. 308-320, 1997.

J. Shi, J. Wang, A. Hsu, P. O'Neill, and E. T. Engman, "Estimation of bare surface soil moisture and surface roughness parameters using L-band SAR image data", IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 35, no. 5, pp. 1254-1266, 1997.

L. M. Zurk, L. Tsang, J. Shi, and R. E Davis, "Electromagnetic Scattering Calculated from Pair Distribution Functions Retrieved from Planar Snow Sections", IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 35, no. 6, pp. 1419-1428, 1997.

T. Albright, T. Painter, D. Roberts, E. Fielding, J. Shi, and J. Dozier, "Classification of surface types using SIR-C/X-SAR, Mount Everest Area, Tibet", Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 103, no. E11, pp. 25823-25837, 1998.

J. Shi and J. Dozier, "Estimation of Snow Water Equivalence Using SIR-C/X-SAR", submitted to IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Feb. 1999.

J. Shi and J. Dozier, "Simulation of sub-pixel terrain effects on radar backscattering of snow", Proceedings IGARSS '89, IEEE No. 89CH2768-0, pp. 1009-1011, 1989.

J. Shi, J. Dozier, and R. E. Davis, "Simulation of snow-depth estimation from multi-frequency radar", Proceedings IGARSS '90, IEEE No. 90CH2825-8, pp. 1129-1132, 1990.

J. Shi, J. Dozier, H. Rott, and R. E. Davis, "Snow and glacier mapping in alpine regions with polarimetric SAR", Proceedings IGARSS '91, IEEE No. 91CH2971-0, vol. IV, pp. 2311-3214, 1991.

10. Shi, J. V. Soares, L. Hess, E. T. Engman, and J. van Zyl, "SAR-derived soil moisture measurements for bare fields", Proceedings IGARSS '91, IEEE No. 91CH2971-0, vol. I, pp. 393-396, 1991.

J. Shi, J. V. Soares, L. Hess, E. T. Engman, and J. Van Zyl, "Soil moisture measurements from airborne SAR", Proceedings of the second airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (AIRSAR) workshop, JPL-Publication 91-30, pp. 68-77, 1991.

J. Shi, J. Dozier, H. Rott, and R. E. Davis, "Snow and glacier mapping with polarimetric SAR", Proceedings of the second airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (AIRSAR) workshop, JPL-Publication 91-30, pp. 78-87, 1991.

J. Shi, J. van Zyl, J. V. Soares, and E. T. Engman, "Development of soil moisture retrieval algorithm for L-band SAR measurements", Proceedings IGARSS '92, IEEE No. 92CH3041-1, vol. I, pp. 495-497, 1992.

J. Shi and J. Dozier, "Radar backscattering response to wet snow", Proceedings IGARSS '92, IEEE No. 92CH3041-1, vol. II, pp. 927-929, 1992

J. Shi and J. Dozier, "A snow wetness retrieval algorithm for SAR", Proceedings of the third annual JPL airborne geoscience workshop, JPL-Publication 92-14, vol. 3, pp. 1-3, 1992.

J. Shi, J. van Zyl, and E. T. Engman, "Evaluation of polarimetric SAR parameters for soil moisture retrieval", Proceedings of the third annual JPL airborne geoscience workshop, JPL-Publication 92-14, vol. 3, pp. 69-71, 1992.

J. V. Soares, J. Shi, J. van Zyl, and E. T. Engman, "Estimation of bare soil evaporation from a multi-frequency airborne SAR", Proceedings IGARSS '92, IEEE No. 92CH3041-1, vol. II, pp. 1747-1749, 1992.

J. van Zyl, J. Shi, J. V. Soares, and E. T. Engman, "Inference of soil moisture from imaging radar data", in Proceedings of Microwave Signature, 1992.

J. Shi, J. Dozier, and H. Rott, "Deriving snow liquild water content using C-band polarimetric SAR", Proceedings IGARSS '93, IEEE No. 93CH3294-6, vol. III, pp. 1038-1041, 1993.

J. Shi, J. Dozier, and H. Rott, "Modeling and Observation of polarimetric SAR response to dry snow", Proceedings IGARSS '93, IEEE No. 93CH3294-6, vol. III, pp. 1042-1045, 1993

J. Shi, J. Dozier, and H. Rott, "An improved algorithm for retrieval of snow wetness using C-band AIRSAR", Proceedings of the fourth annual JPL airborne geosci ence workshop, JPL-Publication 93-26, vol. 3, pp. 61-64, 1993.

J. Shi, J. Dozier, and W. Rosenthal, "Snow properties devived from TM and SAR measurements", Topical symposium on combined optical-microwave earth and atmosphere sensing, pp. 240-243, 1993.

A. W. Nolin, J. Shi, and J. Dozier, "Characterization of snow grain size in the near-infrared and microwave wavelength", Topical symposium on combined optical-microwave earth and atmosphere sensing, pp. 51-54, 1993.

J. Shi, J. Dozier, and H. Rott, "Active microwave measurements of snow cover - Progress in polarimetric SAR", Proceedings IGARSS '94, IEEE No. 94CH3378-7, vol. IV, pp. 1922-1924, 1994.

J. Shi and J. Dozier, "Estimating Snow Particle Size Using TM Band-4", Proceedings IGARSS '94, IEEE No. 94CH3378-7, vol. IV, pp. 2078-2080, 1994.

J. Shi, P. O'Neill, A. Hsu, J. van Zyl, and M. Seifried, "Estimate soil moisture and surface roughness parameters using L-band SAR measurements", in SPIES of the European Symposium on Satellite Remote Sensing e and Remote Sensing, Sept. 1994.

J. Shi and J. Dozier, "SIR-C/X-SAR investigations of alpine snow cover", Proceedings IGARSS '95, IEEE No. 95CH35770, vol. II, pp. 1582-1584, 1995.

J. Shi and J. Dozier, "SIR-C/X-SAR mapping snow in alpine regions", Proceedings IGARSS '95, IEEE No. 95CH35770, vol. II, pp. 1508-1510, 1995.

J. Shi, J. Wang, A. Hsu, P. O'Neill, and T. Engman, "Estimation of soil moisture and surface roughness using L-band SAR measurements", Proceedings IGARSS '95, IEEE No. 95CH35770, vol. I, pp. 507-509, 1995.

J. Shi, J. Wang, P. O'Neill, A. Hsu, T. Engman, "Application of IEM model on estimations of moisture and surface roughness", Proceedings of the fifth annual JPL airborne geoscience workshop, JPL-Publication 95-1 vol. 3, pp. 51-54, 1995.

P. O'Neill, A. Hsu, and J. Shi, "Soil moisture estimation using time-series radar measurements of bare and vegetated fields in Washita'92", Proceedings IGARSS '95, IEEE No. 95CH35770, vol. I, pp. 498-500, 1995.

10. Wang, P. O'Neill, E. T. Engman, R. Pardipuram, J. Shi, and A. Hsu, "Estimating soil moisture from SIR-C measurements over the Little Washita watershed", Proceedings IGARSS '95, IEEE No. 95CH35770, vol. III, pp. 1982-1984, 1995.

26. Li and J, Shi "Snow mapping with SIR-C multipolarization SAR in Tienshan Mountain", Proceedings IGARSS '96, IEEE No. 96CH35875, vol. I, pp. 136-138, 1996.

26. L. M. Zurk, L. Tsang, J. Shi, and R. E Davis, "Electromagnetic Scattering Based on Pair Distribution Functions Retrieved from Planar Snow Sections", Proceedings IGARSS '96, IEEE No. 96CH35875, vol. I, pp. 754-756, 1996.

J. Shi and J. Dozier, "Estimation of snow water equivalence using SIR-C/X-SAR", Proceedings IGARSS '96, IEEE No. 96CH35875, vol. IV, pp. 2002-2004, 1996.

J. Shi, T. Painter, and J. Dozier, "Estimation of snow surface albedo using Landsat Thematic Mapper", Proceedings IGARSS '96, IEEE No. 96CH35875, vol. IV, pp. 2249-2251, 1996.

K. Pak, L. Tsang, R. Weeks, J. Shi, and H. Rott, "Elecetromagnetic wave sacttering from real-life rough surface profiles and profiles based on an averaged spectrum", Proceedings IGARSS '96, IEEE No. 96CH35875, vol. IV, pp. 2125-2127, 1996.

J. Shi, S. Hensley, and J. Dozier, "Mapping snow cover with repeat pass synthetic aperture radar", Proceedings IGARSS '97, IEEE No. 97CH36042, vol. II, pp. 628-630, 1997.

J. Shi, Q. Sun, A. Hsu, J. Wang, P. O'Neill, J. Ranson, and E. T. Engman, "Estimation of soil moisture for vegetated surface using multi-temporal L-band SAR", Proceedings IGARSS '97, IEEE No. 97CH36042, vol. III, pp. 1269-1271, 1997.

J. Shi and J. Dozier, "Effect of large structure in wet snow cover on SAR measurements", Proceedings IGARSS '97, IEEE No. 97CH36042, vol. IV, pp. 1451-1453, 1997.

J. Shi and J. van Zyl, "On improvement of bare surface soil moisture estimation", Proceedings IGARSS '98, IEEE No. 98CH36174, vol. IV, pp. 1834-1836, 1998.

Jiancheng Shi, M.A. Thesis, "A study of snow hydrology and snow cover measurement from satellite MSS data in Pengqu", Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1987.

Jiancheng Shi, Ph.D Dissertation, "Radar polarimetric modeling and observations of snow-covered terrain", Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1991.