Research interests

• Radiative transfer modeling
• Quantitative estimation of land surface variables from satellite remote sensing<: Methodology/li>
• Global satellite products production
• Earth's energy budget
• Global environmental changes

Membership of Science Teams

• Member, 2008-present, NOAA JPSS VIIRS Land Science Team
• Member, 2004-2015, NASA MODIS Science Team
• Member, 2004-2015,NASA/Japan ASTER Science Team
• Member, 2008-2019, NOAA GOES-R Land Science Team
• Associate Member, 2004-2014,NASA NPOESS Preparatory Program (NPP) Science Team
• Member, 2004-2007,NASA MISR Science Team
• Member, 1999-2003,NASA Earth Observer-1 (EO1) Science Team
• Member, 1997-2002,NASA Earth Observing System (EOS) Validation Program
• Member, Frence POLDER II Science Team
• Member, ESA (European Space Agency) CHRIS Science Team
• Member, Japan ALOS Science Team

On-going Research Projects

• Producing Incident Shortwave Radiation and Photosynthetically Active Radiation Products over Land Surfaces from MODIS and Geostationary Satellite Data, NASA, 2014-2017
• Accessing Chinese Satellite data products for land applications, NASA, 2009-2015
• Characterizing Surface Energy Budget of Different Surface Types Under Varying Climatic Conditions From AVIRIS and Master Data, NASA, 2012-2015
• JPSS Land Surface Albedo, NOAA, 2012-present
• Determining the Albedo Trends Due to Land Cover Change and Disturbance, USDA, 2013-2015

Past Research Projects

• "Mapping high-resolution land surface radiative fluxes from MODIS" (Abstract), NASA
• "Land surface thermal infrared emissivity database development and modeling for operational weather prediction and climate models" (Abstract), NOAA
• "Global land surface albedo and anisotropy products from MODIS and VIIRS for climate and cegetation studies">, Crystal Schaaf, Principal Investigator, Alan Strahler & Shunlin Liang, Co-Investigators, NASA
• "Developing GOES-R land surface albedo product", Shunlin Liang (PI) and Kaicun Wang (CO-I), NOAA "Improving Land Surface Products from Multiple EOS Sensors by Developing a Prototype Data Assimilation System" (Abstract), NASA
• "Producing High-Resolution Land Surface Incident PAR Product from Multiple Satellite Data" (Abstract), NASA
• "Mapping High-Resolution Incident Photosynthetically Active Radiation Product for the North American Carbon Program" (Abstract), , NASA
• "Information Delivery System to Monitor the WorldÆs Agricultural Regions", NASA
• "Assessment of Aerosol, Albedo, and Surface Type Environmental Data Records (EDRs) from VIIRS", NASA
• "Using MODIS Data to Characterize Climate Model Land Surface Processes and the Impacts of Land Use/Cover Change on Surface Hydrological Processes", NASA
• "EO-1 Validation and Evaluation for Agricultural Monitoring," NASA
• "Development & Analysis of Geographic Database Defining Organic Agroecosystems", USDA
• "Estimation of Biophysical Parameters from Remotely Sensed Data for Carbon Studies", NASA/JGCRI
• "Validating MODIS/MISR Land Surface Reflectance and Albedo Products," NASA
• "Development of a low-cost methods of airborne remote sensing of crops", State of Maryland
• "International Forum on BRDF," NASA
• "Development of Graphics-based 3D Simulation Models," Los Alamos National Laboratory
• "Radar Backscattering Modeling & Algorithm Development for Forest Parameters Retrieval from SAR Data," NASA
• "Topographic Effects on Solar Radiation and Remote Sensed Radiances," NASA