{"id":4985,"date":"2024-02-01T13:16:22","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T05:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/cncs\/?page_id=4985"},"modified":"2026-04-14T14:56:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T06:56:55","slug":"li-yi","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/cncs\/li-yi\/","title":{"rendered":"Li Yi"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/cncs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Li-Yi.jpg\" alt=\"Li Yi\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Li Yi<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Academic Qualifications<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p>Ph.D. student, Cartography and Geographic Information System, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China. 2021 &#8211; Present.<\/p>\r\n<p>M.S. student, Cartography and Geographic Information System, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, 2019 &#8211; 2021.<\/p>\r\n<p>B.S., Geographic Information Science, School of Geographical Science, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China. 2015 &#8211; 2019.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Research areas<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p>LiDAR Radiative Transfer Modeling and Simulation; Vegetation Structure Parameter Retrieval<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Research interests<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p>Li&#8217;s study aims to develop vegetation vertical structure parameters (e.g., leaf area index vertical profile) retrieval methods using UAV, airborne and spaceborne LiDAR data. His research focuses on how to physically model the laser pulse transport and how to accurately retrieve biophysical parameters over heterogeneous forest canopies.<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Biography<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p>Li is a PhD student at Beijing Normal University. He joined the Center for Nature-Based Climate Solutions with a scholarship from China Scholarship Council.<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Selected publications:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><strong>Li, Y.,<\/strong> Xie, D., Wang, Y., Jin, S., Zhou, K., Zhang, Z., Li, W., Zhang, W., Mu, X. and Yan, G., 2023. Individual tree segmentation of airborne and UAV LiDAR point clouds based on the watershed and optimized connection center evolution clustering. Ecology and Evolution, 13(7), p.e10297.<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Li, Y.,<\/strong> Shi, G. and Sun, Z., 2020. Evaluation and improvement of MODIS aerosol optical depth products over China. Atmospheric Environment, 223, p.117251.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Li Yi Academic Qualifications Ph.D. student, Cartography and Geographic Information System, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China. 2021 &#8211; Present. M.S. student, Cartography and Geographic Information System, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, 2019 &#8211; 2021. B.S., Geographic Information Science, School of Geographical Science, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China. 2015 &#8211; 2019.\u00a0 Research areas LiDAR Radiative Transfer Modeling and Simulation; Vegetation Structure Parameter Retrieval Research interests Li&#8217;s study aims to develop vegetation vertical structure parameters (e.g., leaf area index vertical profile) retrieval methods using UAV, airborne and spaceborne LiDAR data. His research focuses on how to physically model the laser pulse transport and how to accurately retrieve biophysical parameters over heterogeneous forest canopies. Biography Li is a PhD student at Beijing Normal University. He joined the Center for Nature-Based Climate Solutions with a scholarship from China Scholarship Council. Selected publications: Li, Y., Xie, D., Wang, Y., Jin, S., Zhou, K., Zhang, Z., Li, W., Zhang, W., Mu, X. and Yan, G., 2023. Individual tree segmentation of airborne and UAV LiDAR point clouds based on the watershed and optimized connection center evolution clustering. Ecology and Evolution, 13(7), p.e10297. Li, Y., Shi, G. and Sun, Z., 2020. Evaluation and improvement of MODIS aerosol optical depth products over China. Atmospheric Environment, 223, p.117251. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4985","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Li Yi - NUS Centre for Nature-based Climate Solutions<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/cncs\/li-yi\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Li Yi - NUS Centre for Nature-based Climate Solutions\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Li Yi Academic Qualifications Ph.D. student, Cartography and Geographic Information System, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China. 2021 &#8211; Present. M.S. student, Cartography and Geographic Information System, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, 2019 &#8211; 2021. B.S., Geographic Information Science, School of Geographical Science, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China. 2015 &#8211; 2019.\u00a0 Research areas LiDAR Radiative Transfer Modeling and Simulation; Vegetation Structure Parameter Retrieval Research interests Li&#8217;s study aims to develop vegetation vertical structure parameters (e.g., leaf area index vertical profile) retrieval methods using UAV, airborne and spaceborne LiDAR data. His research focuses on how to physically model the laser pulse transport and how to accurately retrieve biophysical parameters over heterogeneous forest canopies. Biography Li is a PhD student at Beijing Normal University. He joined the Center for Nature-Based Climate Solutions with a scholarship from China Scholarship Council. Selected publications: Li, Y., Xie, D., Wang, Y., Jin, S., Zhou, K., Zhang, Z., Li, W., Zhang, W., Mu, X. and Yan, G., 2023. Individual tree segmentation of airborne and UAV LiDAR point clouds based on the watershed and optimized connection center evolution clustering. Ecology and Evolution, 13(7), p.e10297. Li, Y., Shi, G. and Sun, Z., 2020. Evaluation and improvement of MODIS aerosol optical depth products over China. Atmospheric Environment, 223, p.117251. &nbsp;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/cncs\/li-yi\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"NUS Centre for Nature-based Climate Solutions\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-04-14T06:56:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/cncs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Li-Yi.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/cncs\/li-yi\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/cncs\/li-yi\/\",\"name\":\"Li Yi - NUS Centre for Nature-based Climate Solutions\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/cncs\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/cncs\/li-yi\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/cncs\/li-yi\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/cncs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Li-Yi.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-02-01T05:16:22+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-04-14T06:56:55+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/cncs\/li-yi\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/cncs\/li-yi\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/cncs\/li-yi\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/cncs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Li-Yi.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/cncs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Li-Yi.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/cncs\/li-yi\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/cncs\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Li Yi\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/cncs\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/cncs\/\",\"name\":\"NUS Centre for Nature-based Climate Solutions\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/cncs\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/cncs\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/cncs\/#organization\",\"name\":\"NUS Centre for Nature-based Climate Solutions\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/cncs\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/cncs\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/cncs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/cropped-CoBrand-CNCS_H_Transparent1-1-1.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/cncs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/cropped-CoBrand-CNCS_H_Transparent1-1-1.png\",\"width\":1131,\"height\":363,\"caption\":\"NUS Centre for Nature-based Climate Solutions\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/cncs\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Li Yi - NUS Centre for Nature-based Climate Solutions","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/cncs\/li-yi\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Li Yi - NUS Centre for Nature-based Climate Solutions","og_description":"Li Yi Academic Qualifications Ph.D. student, Cartography and Geographic Information System, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China. 2021 &#8211; Present. M.S. student, Cartography and Geographic Information System, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, 2019 &#8211; 2021. B.S., Geographic Information Science, School of Geographical Science, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China. 2015 &#8211; 2019.\u00a0 Research areas LiDAR Radiative Transfer Modeling and Simulation; Vegetation Structure Parameter Retrieval Research interests Li&#8217;s study aims to develop vegetation vertical structure parameters (e.g., leaf area index vertical profile) retrieval methods using UAV, airborne and spaceborne LiDAR data. His research focuses on how to physically model the laser pulse transport and how to accurately retrieve biophysical parameters over heterogeneous forest canopies. Biography Li is a PhD student at Beijing Normal University. He joined the Center for Nature-Based Climate Solutions with a scholarship from China Scholarship Council. Selected publications: Li, Y., Xie, D., Wang, Y., Jin, S., Zhou, K., Zhang, Z., Li, W., Zhang, W., Mu, X. and Yan, G., 2023. Individual tree segmentation of airborne and UAV LiDAR point clouds based on the watershed and optimized connection center evolution clustering. Ecology and Evolution, 13(7), p.e10297. Li, Y., Shi, G. and Sun, Z., 2020. Evaluation and improvement of MODIS aerosol optical depth products over China. Atmospheric Environment, 223, p.117251. &nbsp;","og_url":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/cncs\/li-yi\/","og_site_name":"NUS Centre for Nature-based Climate Solutions","article_modified_time":"2026-04-14T06:56:55+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/cncs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Li-Yi.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/cncs\/li-yi\/","url":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/cncs\/li-yi\/","name":"Li Yi - NUS Centre for Nature-based Climate Solutions","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/cncs\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/cncs\/li-yi\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/cncs\/li-yi\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/cncs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Li-Yi.jpg","datePublished":"2024-02-01T05:16:22+00:00","dateModified":"2026-04-14T06:56:55+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/cncs\/li-yi\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/cncs\/li-yi\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/cncs\/li-yi\/#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/cncs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Li-Yi.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/cncs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Li-Yi.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/cncs\/li-yi\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/cncs\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Li Yi"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/cncs\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/cncs\/","name":"NUS Centre for Nature-based Climate Solutions","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/cncs\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/cncs\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/cncs\/#organization","name":"NUS Centre for Nature-based Climate Solutions","url":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/cncs\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/cncs\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/cncs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/cropped-CoBrand-CNCS_H_Transparent1-1-1.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/cncs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/cropped-CoBrand-CNCS_H_Transparent1-1-1.png","width":1131,"height":363,"caption":"NUS Centre for Nature-based Climate Solutions"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/cncs\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/cncs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/cncs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/cncs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/cncs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/cncs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4985"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/cncs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7622,"href":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/cncs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4985\/revisions\/7622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/cncs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}