Honors and awards
- 2024 AGU Conference Highlight
- 2018 American Geophysical Union EOS Research Spotlight
- 2016 Top most-cited Classic Papers in Remote Sensing by Google Scholar
- 2010 Early Career Best Paper Award, Remote Sensing Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers, Washington, DC
- 2010 DigitalGlobe 8-Band Research Challenge, DigitalGlobe, Inc.
- 2004 Space Imaging Award, American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
- 2004-2005 University Fellowship (Block Grant), UC Berkeley
- 2002-2003 University Fellowship (Block Grant), UC Berkeley
- Jing Li Estimating algal biomass in a shallow eutrophic lake using a look-up-table and spectrum-matching approach, 2nd Place, Student Honors Paper Competition, Remote Sensing Specialty Group, AAG 2017, Boston.
- Jiwei Li Remote sensing retrieval of colored dissolved organic matter in optically shallow waters, 2nd Place, Student Honors Paper Competition, Remote Sensing Specialty Group, AAG 2016, San Francisco.
- Weining Zhu International Student Travel Award, Geographic Information Systems and Science Specialty Group (GISS-SG), 2011 AAG Conference, Seattle, WA.
- Weining Zhu Spatial chromatic tessellation: conception, interpretation, and implication, 1st Place of Best Student Paper Awards in Geoinformatics 2010, with recommendation to publish in Annals of GIS, June 18-20, Beijing, China.