xingkong星空集团官网 Jiang is an Assistant Professor in the School of Environmental Science and Engineering, SUSTech. He received his MSc degree from the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2014, and PhD in Remote Sensing & Hydrology from the Technical University of Denmark in 2018.

His research interests span both remote sensing and hydrological sciences. He has worked on hydrological dynamics of surface water bodies, e.g. lakes, reservoirs, and rivers in the context of climate change. His PhD research has centered on the potential of satellite altimetry for inland water monitoring and modeling. He has investigated the pros/cons of different altimetry missions, e.g. SARAL/AltiKa, CryoSat-2, Sentinel-3 over mountainous lakes and rivers. In addition, he has made some contributions to hydrodynamic modeling using distributed altimetry-derived Water Surface Elevation data, broadening the range of applications of satellite altimetry.

xingkong星空集团官网 has published more than 45 research articles on SCI-indexed journals, e.g. Remote Sensing of Environment, Water Resources Research, Journal of Hydrology, Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, etc.

Professional Experience：

Mar 2021 - Assistant Professor, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech)

Oct 2018 - Sep 2021 Postdoc, Department of Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Denmark (DTU)

Oct 2015 - Sep 2018 Research assistant, Technical University of Denmark

Jul 2014 - Aug 2015 Research assistant, IGSNRR, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Education：

Oct 2015 – Sep 2018: PhD, Remote Sensing and Hydrology, Technical University of Denmark

Sep 2011– Jun 2014: MSc, Natural Resources Science, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Sep 2007 – Jun 2011: BSc, Geographic Information System, North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power 

Synergistic Activities ：

1. Associate Editor of Sustainable Water Resources Management (Springer Nature)

2. Young Editorial Board Member of Journal of Remote Sensing (Science partner journal)

3. Young Editorial Board Member of Remin Zhujiang

Awards and Honors：

2023 Reviewer Award of The Innovation Geoscience

2023 Reviewer Award of IAHS Hydrological Sciences Journal

2021 Shenzhen Overseas High-Caliber Personnel

2019 Otto Mønsteds Fund Travel award

2018 Outstanding Reviewer of the Remote Sensing of Environment

2018 Otto Mønsteds Fund Travel award

Selected funded projects：

[1] River water level retrieval from radar altimetry considering the ground heterogeneity within the footprint (2025.01-2028.12). Funded by NSFC

[2] EOForChina: Satellite EO for Flood and Drought Forecasting in China (2019.03 – 2022.02). Funded by Danida Fellowship Centre, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark  

[3] ChinaWaterSense: Remote sensing of inland water and land surface variables in China with satellites and unmanned airborne systems (UAS) (2019.10 – 2022.09). Funded by Innovation Fund Denmark 

[4] HYDROCOASTAL: Sentinel-3 and CryoSat-2 SAR/sarin Radar Altimetry for Coastal Zone and Inland Water Level (2020.01 – 2021.12). Funded by European Space Agency (ESA)

[5] SWOT-Arctic-River: Enhanced Levels and Discharge Estimates for Arctic Rivers. SWOT Science Team (NASA/CNES)

Research Interests：

1. Surface water mapping

2. Hydrochemistry

3. Hydrological modeling & uncertainty analysis

4. Hydraulic model & Hydrodynamic modeling

5. Data assimilation & Streamflow forecasting

6. Inland water altimetry

7. UAV Hydrometry

8. Climate change and water resources management

Published Works：

1. xingkong星空集团官网 Jiang*, Karina Nielsen, Ole B. Andersen. “Beyond Exact Repeat Missions: Embracing Geodetic Altimetry for Inland Water Monitoring and Modeling”. , 2024, 4, 0269. DOI:  

2. Qiang Yu,xingkong星空集团官网 Jiang*, Raphael Schneider,  Yi Zheng, Junguo Liu. “Deciphering the Mechanism of Better Predictions of Regional LSTM Models in Ungauged Basins”. , 2024, 60(7). DOI:

3. Zhiwei Wang, xingkong星空集团官网 Jiang*, Karina Nielsen, Lei Wang. “Reservoir filling up problems in a changing climate: insights from CryoSat-2 altimetry”. , 2024, 51(10). DOI:  

4. Jun Liu, Peter Bauer-Gottwein*, Monica Coppo Frias, Aske Folkmann Musaeus, Linda Christoffersen, xingkong星空集团官网 Jiang. “Stage-Slope-Discharge Relationships Upstream of River Confluences Revealed by Satellite Altimetry”. , 2023, 50(23). DOI:

5. Yanan Zhao, xingkong星空集团官网 Jiang*, Xingxing Zhang, Junguo Liu. “Tracking river’s pulse from space: A global analysis of river stage fluctuations”. , 2023, 50(23). DOI:

6. Xinyu Chen, xingkong星空集团官网 Jiang*, Yuning Luo, and Junguo Liu. "A global streamflow indices time series dataset for large-sample hydrological analyses on streamflow regime (until 2022)" , 2023, 15(10), 4463-4479. DOI:

7. Xie Chen, Chaohui Zhou, Zhiyong Tian*, Hongzhi Mao, Yongqiang Luo, Deyu Sun, Jianhua Fan, xingkong星空集团官网 Jiang, Jie Deng, Marc A. Rosen. "Different photovoltaic power potential variations in East and West China". , 2023, 351, 121846. DOI:  

8. Peter xingkong星空集团官网*, Elena Zakharova, Monica Coppo Frías, Heidi Ranndal, Karina Nielsen, Linda Christoffersen, Jun Liu, xingkong星空集团官网 Jiang. "A hydraulic model of the Amur River informed by ICESat-2 elevation". , 2023, DOI:

9. Donghui Ma, xingkong星空集团官网 Jiang*, Jie xingkong星空集团官网, Yun Shi. "Water index and Swin Transformer Ensemble (WISTE ) for water body extraction from multispectral remote sensing images". , 2023, 60(1). DOI:  

10. xingkong星空集团官网 Jiang*, Karina Nielsen, Ole B. Andersen. "Improvements in mountain lake monitoring from satellite altimetry over the past 30 years – lessons learned from Tibetan lakes". , 2023, 113702. DOI:

11. xingkong星空集团官网 Jiang*, Yanan Zhao, Karina Nielsen, Ole B. Andersen, Peter xingkong星空集团官网. "Near real-time altimetry for river monitoring—a global assessment of Sentinel-3". , 2023, 18(7), 074017. DOI:

12. Xingxing Zhang, Zhaofei Liu*, Yubo Liu, xingkong星空集团官网 Jiang, Rui Wang, Hou Jiang, Jing xingkong星空集团官网, Qiuhong Tang, Zhijun Yao. "Examining moisture contribution for precipitation in response to climate change and anthropogenic factors in Hengduan Mountain Region, China". , 2023, 620B, 129562. DOI:

13. Jinghua Xiong, xingkong星空集团官网 Jiang, Yuanlin Qiu, Sly Wongchuig, Abhishek, Shenglian Guo*, Jie Chen*. "On the capabilities of the SWOT satellite to monitor the lake level change over the Third Pole" , 2023, 18(4), 044008. DOI:

14. M. Coppo Frias*, S. Liu, X. xingkong星空集团官网, K. Nielsen, H. Randall, L. Jiang, J. Ma, and P. xingkong星空集团官网. "River hydraulic modelling with ICEsat-2 land and water surface elevation"  ,2023, 27(5). DOI:

15. Qiang Yu,xingkong星空集团官网 Jiang*, Yanjun Wang, Junguo Liu. "Enhancing streamflow simulation using hybridized machine learning models in a semi-arid basin of the Chinese Loess Plateau". , 2023, 617PC, 129115. DOI:

16. Xin Zhao*, Kazuya Nishina*, Tomoko Kawaguchi Akitsu, xingkong星空集团官网 Jiang, Yuji Masutomi, Kenlo Nishida Nasahara. "Feature-based algorithm for large-scale rice phenology detection based on satellite images". , 2023, 329, 109283. DOI:

17. Xingxing Zhang, xingkong星空集团官网 Jiang*, Zhaofei Liu*, Cecile MM Kittel, Zhijun Yao, Daniel Druce, Rui Wang, Christian Tøttrup, Jun Liu, Hou Jiang, Peter xingkong星空集团官网. "Flow regime changes in the Lancang River, revealed by integrated modeling with multiple Earth observation datasets". , 2023, 862, 160656. DOI:

18. Youjiang Shen, Dedi Liu*, xingkong星空集团官网 Jiang, Karina Nielsen, Jiabo Yin, Jun Liu, and Peter xingkong星空集团官网. "High-resolution water level and storage variation datasets for 338 reservoirs in China during 2010–2020" , 2022, 14, 5671–5694. DOI:  

19. Jun Liu*,xingkong星空集团官网 Jiang, Filippo Bandini, Cécile M.M. Kittel, Nicola Balbarini, Nisha Gill Hansted, Henrik Grosen, Peter xingkong星空集团官网. “Spatio-temporally varying Strickler coefficient: A calibration approach applied to a Danish river using in-situ water surface elevation and UAS altimetry”. , 2022, 613, 128443. DOI:  

20. Youjiang Shen, Dedi Liu*, xingkong星空集团官网 Jiang, Christian Tøttrup, Daniel Druce, Jiabo Yin, Karina Nielsen, Peter xingkong星空集团官网, Jun Wang, Xin Zhao. “Estimating Reservoir Release Using Multi-Source Satellite Datasets and Hydrological Modeling Techniques”. , 2022, 14(4), 815. DOI:

21. xingkong星空集团官网 Jiang*, Silja Westphal Christensen, Peter xingkong星空集团官网. “Calibrating 1D hydrodynamic river models in the absence of cross-section geometry using satellite observations of water surface elevation and river width”.  ,2021, 25(12). DOI:  

22. Jun Liu, xingkong星空集团官网 Jiang*, Xingxing Zhang, Daniel Druce, Cécile M. M. Kittel, Christian Tøttrup, Peter xingkong星空集团官网. “Impacts of water resources management on land water storage in the North China Plain: insights from multi-mission earth observations”. , 2021, 603, 126933 DOI: 

23. Shanshan Deng, Suxia Liu*, Xingguo xingkong星空集团官网, xingkong星空集团官网 Jiang, Peter xingkong星空集团官网. “Polar drift in the 1990s explained by terrestrial water storage change”. , 2021, 48(7). DOI:

24. International Altimetry Team, incl. xingkong星空集团官网 Jiang. “Altimetry for the future: Building on 25 years of progress”. , 2021, 68(2). DOI:  

25. Cécile M.M. Kittel*, xingkong星空集团官网 Jiang, Christian Tøttrup, Peter xingkong星空集团官网. “Sentinel-3 radar altimetry for river monitoring - a catchment-scale evaluation of satellite water surface elevation from Sentinel-3A and Sentinel-3B”., 2021, 25(1). DOI:

26. Youjiang Shen, Dedi Liu*, xingkong星空集团官网 Jiang, Jiabo Yin, Karina Nielsen, Peter xingkong星空集团官网, Shenglian Guo, Jun Wang. “On the contribution of satellite altimetry-derived water surface elevation to hydrodynamic model calibration in the Han River”., 2020, 12(24), 4087. DOI:

27. xingkong星空集团官网 Jiang*, Karina Nielsen, Ole B. Andersen, Peter xingkong星空集团官网. “A bigger picture of how the Tibetan lakes have changed over the past decade revealed by CryoSat-2 altimetry”., 2020, 125(23). DOI:

28. Xingxing Zhang, xingkong星空集团官网 Jiang*, Cécile M. M. Kittel, Zhijun Yao, Karina Nielsen, Zhaofei Liu, Rui Wang, Jun Liu, Ole B. Andersen, Peter xingkong星空集团官网. “On the Performance of Sentinel‐3 Altimetry Over New Reservoirs: Approaches to Determine Onboard A Priori Elevation”., 2020, 47(17). DOI:  

29. Guoqing Zhang*, Taodong Yao, Hongjie Xie, Kun Yang, Liping Zhu, C.K. Shum, Tobias Bolch, Shuang Yi, Simon Allen, xingkong星空集团官网 Jiang, Wenfeng Chen, Changqing Ke. “Response of Tibetan Plateau’s lakes to climate changes: Trend, pattern, and mechanisms”., 2020, 208(103269). DOI:

30. xingkong星空集团官网 Jiang*, Filippo Bandini, Inger Jensen, Ole Smith, Peter xingkong星空集团官网. “The value of distributed high-resolution UAV-borne observations of water surface elevation for river management and hydrodynamic modelling”., 2020, 12(7), 1171. DOI:  Feature paper (free of charge) 

31. xingkong星空集团官网 Jiang*, Karina Nielsen, Salvatore Dinardo, Ole B. Andersen, Peter xingkong星空集团官网. “Evaluation of Sentinel-3 SRAL SAR altimetry over Chinese rivers”., 2020, 237, 111546. DOI: 

32. xingkong星空集团官网 Jiang*, Henrik Madsen, Peter xingkong星空集团官网. “Simultaneous Calibration of Multiple Hydrodynamic Model Parameters using Satellite Altimetry Observations of Water Surface Elevation in the Songhua River”. , 2019,225: 229-247. DOI: 

33. xingkong星空集团官网 Jiang*, Peter xingkong星空集团官网. “How do GPM IMERG precipitation estimates perform as hydrological model forcing? Evaluation for 300 catchments across Mainland China”.  of Hydrology, 2019, 572: 486-500. DOI:  

34. xingkong星空集团官网 Jiang*, Ole Baltazar Andersen, Karina Nielsen, Guoqing Zhang, Peter xingkong星空集团官网. “Influence of local geoid variation on water surface elevation estimates derived from multi-mission altimetry for Lake Namco”., 2019, 211: 65-79. DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2018.11.004

35. xingkong星空集团官网 Jiang*, Karina Nielsen, Ole B. Andersen, Peter xingkong星空集团官网. “CryoSat-2 radar altimetry for monitoring freshwater resources of China”., 2017, 200: 125-139. DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2017.08.015

36. xingkong星空集团官网 Jiang*, Raphael Schneider, Ole B. Andersen, Peter xingkong星空集团官网. “CryoSat-2 Altimetry Applications over Rivers and Lakes”., 2017, 9(3), 211. DOI: 10.3390/w9030211

37. xingkong星空集团官网 Jiang*, Karina Nielsen, Ole B. Andersen, Peter xingkong星空集团官网. “Monitoring recent lake level variations on the Tibetan Plateau using Cryosat-2 SARIn mode data”., 2017, 544: 109-124. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2016.11.024 [Highly Cited Paper in January 2018]

38. xingkong星空集团官网 Jiang, Zhijun Yao*, He Qing Huang. “Climate variability and change on the Mongolian Plateau: Historical variation and future predictions”., 2016, 67:1-14. DOI: 10.3354/cr01347

39. Rui Wang, Zhaofei Liu, xingkong星空集团官网 Jiang, Zhijun Yao*, Junbo Wang, Jianting xingkong星空集团官网. “Comparison of surface water chemistry and weathering effects of two lake basins in the Changtang Nature Reserve, China”., 2016, 28(3):183-194. DOI: 10.1016/j.jes.2015.03.016

40. Lei Wang, Zhijun Yao*, xingkong星空集团官网 Jiang, Rui Wang, Shanshan Wu, Zhaofei Liu. “Changes in climate extremes and catastrophic events in the Mongolian Plateau from 1951 to 2012”., 2016, 55(5): 1169-1182. DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-14-0282.1

41. xingkong星空集团官网 Jiang, Zhijun Yao*, Zhaofei Liu, Shanshan Wu, Rui Wang, Lei Wang. “Estimation of soil erosion in some sections of lower Jin sha River based on RUSLE”., 2015, 76(3): 1831-1847. DOI: 10.1007/s11069-014-1569-6

42. xingkong星空集团官网 Jiang, Zhijun Yao*, Rui Wang*, Zhaofei Liu, Lei Wang. “Hydrochemistry of the Middle and Upper Reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo River System: Weathering Processes and CO2 Consumption”., 2015, 74(3): 2369-2379. DOI: 10.1007/s12665-015-4237-6

43. xingkong星空集团官网 Jiang, Zhijun Yao*, Zhaofei Liu, Rui Wang, Shanshan Wu. “Hydrochemistry and its controlling factors of rivers in the source region of the Yangtze River on the Tibetan Plateau”., 2015, 155:76-83. DOI: 10.1016/j.gexplo.2015.04.009

44. Rui Wang, Zhijun Yao*, Zhaofei Liu, Shanshan Wu, xingkong星空集团官网 Jiang, Lei Wang. “Snow cover variability and snowmelt in a high altitude ungauged catchment”., 2015, 29(17): 3665-3676. DOI: 10.1002/hyp.10472

45. Zhijun Yao, Rui Wang*, Zhaofei Liu, Shanshan Wu, xingkong星空集团官网 Jiang. “Spatial-temporal patterns of major ion chemistry and its controlling factors in the Manasarovar Basin, Tibet”. , 2015, 25(6): 687-700. DOI: 10.1007/s11442-015-1196-5