Rui obtained his Ph.D. degree at Utah Water Research Laboratory, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Utah State University, worked with Dr. Alfonso Torres-Rua. Rui's Ph.D. dissertation relates to California vineyard water status and stress estimation using high-resolution UAV information and eddy-covariance flux tower data.

Recent Research Work:

• 2023 | Irrigation Science | Spatial estimation of actual evapotranspiration over irrigated turfgrass using aUAS thermal and multispectral imagery and TSEB model | https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-3098168/v1

• 2023 | Remote Sensing | ET Partitioning Assessment Using the TSEB Model and sUAS Information across California Central Valley Vineyards | https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15030756

• 2022 | Irrigation Science | LAI estimation across California vineyards using sUAS multi-seasonal multi-spectral, thermal, and elevation information and machine learning | https://doi.org/10.1007/s00271-022-00776-0

• 2022 | SPIE | Exploratory analysis of vineyard leaf water potential against UAS multispectral and temperature information | https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2622995

• 2021 | SPIE | Evapotranspiration partitioning assessment using a machine-learning-based leaf area index and the two-source energy balance model with sUAV information | https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2586259

Published Repository on HydroShare:

• 2023 | Temperature separation via eliminating shadow-pixel influence based on high-resolution sUAS image in California vineyards | https://doi.org/10.4211/hs.c0876501581f4
• 2022 | A python-based program generating a part of information based on AggieAir images for the TSEB model: taking California vineyards as an example | https://doi.org/10.4211/hs.c12d334b3143470a9787a
• 2021 | Features extraction from the LAI2200C plant canopy analyzer | https://doi.org/10.4211/hs.6d0c4a14289742d0951ba5ab9eca7dc0
• 2021 | Feature extraction approaches for leaf area index estimation in California vineyards via machine learning algorithms | https://doi.org/10.4211/hs.923cf9a7a3bb49369a4e65d48237002b
• 2021 | Footprint area generating based on eddy covariance records | https://doi.org/10.4211/hs.9118e2c1034e40e4ba4721cd17702f70
• 2021 | TSEB modeling and the comparison between the model results and the eddy-covariance monitored data within the footprint area | https://doi.org/10.4211/hs.eb6eeeccdbe546fc941f3c219cb05a34