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Chao Fan

Chao Fan

cfan13@asu.edu

School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-5302
USA

Journal Articles

2018

Estoque, R. C., S. W. Myint, C. Wang, A. Ishtiaque, T. T. Aung, L. Emerton, M. Ooba, Y. Hijioka, M. S. Mon, Z. Wang and C. Fan. 2018. Assessing environmental impacts and change in Myanmar’s mangrove ecosystem service value due to deforestation (2000-2014). Global Change Biology 24(11):5391-5410. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14409. (link )

2017

Fan, C., S. W. Myint, S. Kaplan, A. Middel, B. Zheng, A. Rahman, H. Huang, A. J. Brazel and D. G. Blumberg. 2017. Understanding the impact of urbanization on surface urban heat islands -- a longitudinal analysis of the oasis effect in subtropical desert cities. Remote Sensing 9(7):672. DOI: 10.3390/rs9070672. (link )

Fan, C., S. W. Myint, S. J. Rey and W. Li. 2017. Time series evaluation of landscape dynamics using annual Landsat imagery and spatial statistical modeling: Evidence from the Phoenix metropolitan region. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 58(Jun):12-25. DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2017.01.009. (link )

Fan, C., S. J. Rey and S. W. Myint. 2017. Spatially filtered ridge regression (SFRR): A regression framework to understanding impacts of land cover patterns on urban climate. Transactions in GIS 21(5):862-879. DOI: 10.1111/tgis.12240. (link )

2016

Wang, Z., C. Fan, S. W. Myint and C. Wang. 2016. Size matters: What are the characteristic source areas for urban planning strategies?. PLoS 11(11):e0165726. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0165726. (link )

2015

Fan, C., W. Li, L. J. Wolf and S. W. Myint. 2015. A spatiotemporal compactness pattern analysis of Congressional districts to assess partisan gerrymandering: A case study with California and North Carolina. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 105(4):736-753. DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2015.1039109. (link )

Fan, C., W. Li, L. J. Wolf and S. W. Myint. 2015. A spatiotemporal compactness pattern analysis of Congressional districts to assess partisan gerrymandering: A case study with California and North Carolina. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 105(4):736-753. DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2015.1039109. (link )

Fan, C., S. W. Myint and B. Zheng. 2015. Measuring the spatial arrangement of urban vegetation and its impacts on seasonal surface temperatures. Progress in Physical Geography 39(2):199-219. DOI: 10.1177/0309133314567583. (link )

Myint, S. W., B. Zheng, E. Talen, C. Fan, S. Kaplan, A. Middel, M. Smith, H. Huang and A. J. Brazel. 2015. Does the spatial arrangement of urban landscape matter? Examples of urban warming and cooling in Phoenix and Las Vegas. Ecosystem Health and Sustainability 1(4):Art. 15. DOI: 10.1890/EHS14-0028.1. (link )

Zhao, Q., S. W. Myint, E. A. Wentz and C. Fan. 2015. Rooftop surface temperature analysis in an urban residential environment. Remote Sensing 7(9):12135-12159. DOI: 10.3390/rs70912135. (link )

2014

Fan, C. and S. Myint. 2014. A comparison of spatial autocorrelation indices and landscape metrics in measuring urban landscape fragmentation. Landscape and Urban Planning 121(2014):117-128. DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2013.10.002. (link )

Fan, C., B. Zheng, S. W. Myint and R. M. Aggarwal. 2014. Characterizing changes in cropping patterns using sequential Landsat imagery: An adaptive threshold approach and application to Phoenix, Arizona. International Journal of Remote Sensing 35(20):7263-7278. DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2014.967891. (link )

Kaplan, S., S. W. Myint, C. Fan and A. J. Brazel. 2014. Quantifying outdoor water consumption of urban landuse/land cover: Sensitivity to drought. Environmental Management 53(4):855-864. DOI: 10.1007/s00267-014-0245-7. (link )

Li, W., T. Chen, E. A. Wentz and C. Fan. 2014. NMMI: A mass compactness measure for spatial pattern analysis of areal features. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 104(6):1116-1133. DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2014.941732. (link )

Zheng, B., S. W. Myint and C. Fan. 2014. Spatial configuration of anthropogenic land cover impacts on urban warming. Landscape and Urban Planning 130(October 2014):104-111. DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2014.07.001. (link )

Posters

2016

Fan, C., S. J. Rey, S. W. Myint and W. Li. 2016. A continuous approach to evaluating vegetation and built-up dynamics in a fast growing desert city. Poster presented at the Central Arizona-Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research Eighteenth Annual All Scientists Meeting and Poster Symposium, 15 January 2016, Skysong, Scottsdale, AZ. (link )

Zhao, Q., S. W. Myint, E. A. Wentz and C. Fan. 2016. Rooftop surface temperature analysis in an urban residential environment. Poster presented at the Central Arizona-Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research Eighteenth Annual All Scientists Meeting and Poster Symposium, 15 January 2016, Skysong, Scottsdale, AZ.

2015

Myint, S. W., B. Zheng, C. Fan, S. Kaplan, A. J. Brazel, A. Middel and M. Smith. 2015. Exploring the influence of built and vegetative features on urban warming and cooling: Does spatial arrangement matter?. Poster presented at the 20th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, 95th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society (AMS), January 4-8, 2015, Phoenix, AZ.

2014

Fan, C., B. Zheng, S. W. Myint and R. M. Aggarwal. 2014. Changes in cropping intensity in Phoenix, Arizona and its implications for future agricultural water use. Poster presented at the 16th Annual CAP LTER Poster Symposium and All Scientists Meeting, January 17, 2014, Skysong, Scottsdale, AZ. (link )

Myint, S. W., B. Zheng, C. Fan, S. Kaplan, A. J. Brazel, A. Middel and M. Smith. 2014. Does the spatial arrangement of vegetation and anthropogenic land cover features matter? Case studies of urban warming and cooling in Phoenix and Las Vegas. Poster presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 15-19, 2014, San Francisco, California.

Conference Papers

2014

Myint, S. W., B. Zheng, C. Fan and M. Smith. 2014. The impact of spatial arrangements of built land cover types on urban warming. 35th Asian Conference on Remote Sensing 2014: Sensing for Reintegration of Societies, ACRS 2014. 35th Asian Conference on Remote Sensing 2014: Sensing for Reintegration of Societies, ACRS 2014. (link )

Thesis (PhD)

2016

Fan, C. 2016. A spatial statistical framework for evaluating landscape pattern and its impacts on the urban thermal environment. PhD Dissertation. School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Arizona State University. (link )