Person

Yaping Xu

FR-Research Aide | Plant Sciences

Specialization: precision agriculture, soil moisture, remote sensing, GIScience

Overview

I am Yaping Xu, I am a postdoc research associate at the Stewart Lab, University of Tennessee. I completed my bachelor’s and master’s degree from China. I received my Ph.D. in geography from Louisiana State University (2019), focusing on GIScience and Remote Sensing.

Here with Plant Sciences, University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture (UTIA), I am leading the UAV studies on biofuel crop phenotyping collaborated with the Center for Bioenergy Innovation, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and funded by DOE.

I also lead a study funded by DARPA that uses an airborne and terrestrial hyperspectral camera (imaging spectroscopy) to study how plants respond to environmental stressors.

Research Focus

  • Soil moisture mapping
  • Plant/Crop phenotyping
  • Human-environment interactions
  • Applications of satellite/UAV remote sensing, spatial analysis, and artificial intelligence in precision agriculture

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112 Plant Biotechnology Building
2505 E J Chapman Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996-4500
Education and Training
  • PhD, Geography, Louisiana St U Cen Office, 2019

Yaping Xu

FR-Research Aide | Plant Sciences
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112 Plant Biotechnology Building
2505 E J Chapman Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996-4500
Education and Training
  • PhD, Geography, Louisiana St U Cen Office, 2019
Overview

I am Yaping Xu, I am a postdoc research associate at the Stewart Lab, University of Tennessee. I completed my bachelor’s and master’s degree from China. I received my Ph.D. in geography from Louisiana State University (2019), focusing on GIScience and Remote Sensing.

Here with Plant Sciences, University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture (UTIA), I am leading the UAV studies on biofuel crop phenotyping collaborated with the Center for Bioenergy Innovation, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and funded by DOE.

I also lead a study funded by DARPA that uses an airborne and terrestrial hyperspectral camera (imaging spectroscopy) to study how plants respond to environmental stressors.

Research Focus

  • Soil moisture mapping
  • Plant/Crop phenotyping
  • Human-environment interactions
  • Applications of satellite/UAV remote sensing, spatial analysis, and artificial intelligence in precision agriculture