Junxiong Zhou

Postdoc·University of California, Berkeley

I am a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley working on climate-resilient agriculture — understanding how climate change affects crop and livestock systems, and how Earth observations can guide adaptation. My work combines satellite and UAV remote sensing with machine learning to monitor crops in 2D, 3D, and over time, and to quantify climate impacts on agricultural productivity.

Experience

University of California, Berkeley

Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
Postdoc

Nov. 2025 - present

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Department of Biological Systems Engineering
Research Associate

Feb. 2026 - present

Education

University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering
Ph.D.

Sep. 2021 - Oct. 2025

Beijing Normal University

Faculty of Geographical Science
M.S.

Sep. 2018 - Jun. 2021

China University of Geosciences

Faculty of Information Engineering
B.E.

Sep. 2014 - Jun. 2018

Research Interests

Agricultural remote sensing & crop mapping
3D crop reconstruction from UAV imagery
Climate change impacts on cropping systems
Multi-source image fusion & machine learning

Service

Journal reviewer since 2022 for:

Nature Food Remote Sensing of Environment Global Change Biology ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation Computers and Electronics in Agriculture Agricultural Water Management Agricultural and Forest Meteorology Scientific Data

Talks

AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans Oral Dec. 2025

AAG Annual Meeting, Detroit Oral Mar. 2025

AGU Fall Meeting, Washington DC Poster Dec. 2024

AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco Poster Dec. 2023

AGU Fall Meeting, Chicago Poster Dec. 2022

IEEE IGARSS, Yokohama Oral Aug. 2019

News

Jul 26, 2026

We released UAV3DCrop, a large-scale benchmark dataset for 3D reconstruction in repeated multi-angle UAV crop surveys. Dataset Project page

Mar 01, 2026

Our paper about in-season crop mapping is published in Remote Sensing of Environment. Read more

Jan 15, 2026

Our paper about tracking plant traits using spaceborne PRISMA is published in Remote Sensing of Environment. Read more

Oct 01, 2025

Our paper about monitoring 3D crop dynamics is published in Remote Sensing of Environment. Read more

Sep 03, 2025

Our paper about climate impacts on crop yield stability is published in Earth's Future. Read more

Nov 12, 2024

Our paper about climate impacts on crop rotation is published in Global Change Biology. Featured Read more

Nov 01, 2024

Our paper about sub-national scale olive mapping is published in ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. Read more

Feb 03, 2024

Our paper about climate warming impacts on cattle meat yields is published in Communications Earth & Environment. Read more

Selected Publications

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IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine · 2026

From 2D flat maps to 4D living models: A review of UAV remote sensing in agriculture

Junxiong Zhou, Qi Yang^#, Licheng Liu, Lang Qiao, Xuechen Li, Ce Yang, Vipin Kumar, David Mulla, Zhenong Jin (^# corresponding author)

In Press

Earth's future · 2025

Reduced Crop Yield Stability Is More Likely to Be Associated With Heat Than With Moisture Extremes in the US Midwest

Weihang Liu, Junxiong Zhou^#, Yuchuan Luo, Shuo Chen, Yuchi Ma (^# corresponding author)

Paper

Global Change Biology · 2024

Changes in the Yield Effect of the Preceding Crop in the US Corn Belt Under a Warming Climate

Junxiong Zhou, Peng Zhu, Dan M. Kluger, David B. Lobell, Zhenong Jin^# (^# corresponding author)

SpotlightPaper Commentary

Communications Earth & Environment · 2024

Unequal impact of climate warming on meat yields of global cattle farming

Weihang Liu^#, Junxiong Zhou, Yuchi Ma, Shuo Chen, Yuchuan Luo (^# corresponding author)

Paper