Hyongki Lee, Associate Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering

Cullen College of Engineering, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering

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• Areas of expertise

  • Engineerin Geographical Information Systems
  • Geomatics and Geosensing
  • Geodetic science
  • Earth system sciences
  • Satellite geodetic instruments

• Awards

  • UH Grants to Enhance and Advance Research (GEAR) Award, 2016
  • UH Cullen College of Engineering Junior Faculty Research Excellence Award, 2016
  • UH Civil & Environmental Engineering Faculty Achievement Award, 2015
  • NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship for PhD student, Ting Yuan, 2015
  • NASA New (Early Career) Investigator Award, 2014
  • UH Provost Certificate of Excellence, 2014
  • Lead author of TOP-50 Most Cited Articles, published in Journal of Geodynamics, January 2006 – February 2011
  • Lead author of TOP-5 Most Cited Articles, published in Marine Geodesy, 2009 – 2011
  • Lead author of TOP Cited Paper Award, published in Terrestrial, Atmospheric, and Oceanic Sciences, 2010-2014 

• Publications

  • Van Den Hoek, J., A. Getirana, H.C. Jung, M. Okeowo*, H. Lee, Monitoring long-term reservoir dynamics with fused Landsat and altimetry time series in persistently cloudy eastern Brazil, Remote Sensing of Environment, in review, 2017.
  • Yu, H.*, H. Lee, T. Yuan*, N. Cao*, A novel method for deformation estimation based on multi-baseline InSAR phase unwrapping, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, revised, 2017.
  • Yu, H.*, Y. Lan, H. Lee, N. Cao*, Two-dimensional phase unwrapping using minimum infinity-norm, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, revised, 2017.
  • Cao, N.*, H. Lee, E. Zaugg, R. Shrestha, W. Carter, C. Glennie, Z. Lu, H. Yu*, Estimation of residual motion errors in airborne SAR interferometry based on time-domain backprojection and multisquint techniques, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, accepted, 2017.
  • Yuan, T.*, H. Lee, H.C. Jung, A. Aierken*, E. Beighley, D. Alsdorf, R. Tshimanga, D. Kim*, Absolute water storages in the Congo River floodplains from integration of InSAR and satellite radar altimetry, Remote Sensing of Environment, 201, 57-72, 2017.
  • Kim, D.*, H. Lee, A. Laraque, R. Tshimanga, T. Yuan*, H. Jung, E. Beighley, C.-H. Chang*, Estimating spatio-temporal water level variations over the central Congo River using PALSAR ScanSAR and Envisat altimetry data, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 38, 7021-7040, 2017.
  • Cao, N.*, H. Lee, E. Zaugg, R. Shrestha, W. Carter, C. Glennie, G. Wang, Z. Lu, J.C. Fernandez-Diaz, Airborne DInSAR results using time-domain backprojection algorithm: a case study over the Slumgullion landslide in Colorado, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 10, 4987-5000, 2017.
  • Yu, H.*, Y. Lan, J. Xu, D. An, H. Lee, Large-scale L0-norm and L1-norm two-dimensional phase unwrapping, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 55, 4712-4728, 2017.
  • Okeowo, M.*, H. Lee, F. Hossain, A. Getirana, Automated generation of lakes and reservoirs water elevation changes from satellite radar altimetry, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 10, 3465-3481, 2017.
  • Xiao, M., A. Koppa, Z. Mekonnen, B. Pagan, S. Zhan, Q. Cao, A. Aierken*, H. Lee, D. Lettenmaier, How much groundwater did California's Central Valley lose during the 2012-2015 drought?, Geophysical Research Letters, 44, doi:10.1002/2017GL073333, 2017.

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• Patents

  • None available.

• Grants and Funded Research

  • Co-PI: Integrating lateral contributions and longitudinal controls along river reaches to improve SWOT discharge estimates, NASA SWOT Science Team, 08/11/2016-08/10/2020.
  • PI: Building lasting capacity for water management in vulnerable deltas of Indochina, NASA SERVIR Program, 08/01/2016-07/31/2019.
  • PI: Diffusion modeling of water flow in the central Congo floodplain using geodetic and remote sensing measurements, NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship, 09/01/2015-08/31/2018 (Ting Yuan's Graduate Fellowship).
  • Co-PI: Altimetry river height data extraction toolbox: application support for Jason-2 and SWOT, NASA Applied Sciences Program, 4/1/2015-03/31/2016.
  • Co-PI: Towards operational water resources management in South Asia exploiting satellite geodetic and remote sensing technologies, NASA Applied Sciences Program, 11/25/2014-11/24/2018.
  • Led "Mapping surface deformation using airborne repeat-pass interferometric synthetic aperture radar: A pilot study for the Slumgullion landslide in Colorado", NSF, 09/01/2014-08/31/2015 (NCALM Supplement).
  • PI: Estimating two-dimensional surface water depths in the Congo wetlands using multiple remote sensing measurements, NASA New Investigator Program, 04/28/2014-04/27/2017.
  • Co-PI: Improved quantification of global mountain glacier mass balance estimates, NASA Cryosphere Program, 09/04/2013-09/03/2016.
  • Co-PI: Decomposing the water storage signal from basins in varied climate settings with remote sensing and modeling, NASA Terrestrial Hydrology Program, 04/01/2013-03/20/2016.
  • PI: Enhancement of GRACE temporal gravity field solutions to study terrestrial water dynamics in the Congo Basin, NASA GRACE, 05/26/2012-05/25/2016.

• Curriculum Vitae

  • None available

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