Liguang 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.

Liguang 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. Liguang Jiang*, Karina Nielsen, Ole B. Andersen. “Beyond Exact Repeat Missions: Embracing Geodetic Altimetry for Inland Water Monitoring and Modeling”. Journal of Remote Sensing, 2024, 4, 0269. DOI: 10.34133/remotesensing.0269 

2. Qiang Yu, Liguang Jiang*, Raphael Schneider,  Yi Zheng, Junguo Liu. “Deciphering the Mechanism of Better Predictions of Regional LSTM Models in Ungauged Basins”. Water Resources Research, 2024, 60(7). DOI: 10.1029/2023WR035876

3. Zhiwei Wang, Liguang Jiang*, Karina Nielsen, Lei Wang. “Reservoir filling up problems in a changing climate: insights from CryoSat-2 altimetry”. Geophysical Research Letters, 2024, 51(10). DOI: 10.1029/2024GL108934 

4. Jun Liu, Peter Bauer-Gottwein*, Monica Coppo Frias, Aske Folkmann Musaeus, Linda Christoffersen, Liguang Jiang. “Stage-Slope-Discharge Relationships Upstream of River Confluences Revealed by Satellite Altimetry”. Geophysical Research Letters, 2023, 50(23). DOI: 10.1029/2023GL106394

5. Yanan Zhao, Liguang Jiang*, Xingxing Zhang, Junguo Liu. “Tracking river’s pulse from space: A global analysis of river stage fluctuations”. Geophysical Research Letters, 2023, 50(23). DOI: 10.1029/2023GL106399

6. Xinyu Chen, Liguang Jiang*, Yuning Luo, and Junguo Liu. "A global streamflow indices time series dataset for large-sample hydrological analyses on streamflow regime (until 2022)" Earth System Science Data, 2023, 15(10), 4463-4479. DOI: 10.5194/essd-15-4463-2023

7. Xie Chen, Chaohui Zhou, Zhiyong Tian*, Hongzhi Mao, Yongqiang Luo, Deyu Sun, Jianhua Fan, Liguang Jiang, Jie Deng, Marc A. Rosen. "Different photovoltaic power potential variations in East and West China". Applied Energy, 2023, 351, 121846. DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2023.121846 

8. Peter Bauer-Gottwein*, Elena Zakharova, Monica Coppo Frías, Heidi Ranndal, Karina Nielsen, Linda Christoffersen, Jun Liu, Liguang Jiang. "A hydraulic model of the Amur River informed by ICESat-2 elevation". Hydrological Sciences Journal, 2023, DOI: 10.1080/02626667.2023.2245811

9. Donghui Ma, Liguang Jiang*, Jie Li, Yun Shi. "Water index and Swin Transformer Ensemble (WISTE ) for water body extraction from multispectral remote sensing images". GIScience & Remote Sensing, 2023, 60(1). DOI: 10.1080/15481603.2023.2251704 

10. Liguang Jiang*, Karina Nielsen, Ole B. Andersen. "Improvements in mountain lake monitoring from satellite altimetry over the past 30 years – lessons learned from Tibetan lakes". Remote Sensing of Environment, 2023, 113702. DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2023.113702

11. Liguang Jiang*, Yanan Zhao, Karina Nielsen, Ole B. Andersen, Peter Bauer-Gottwein. "Near real-time altimetry for river monitoring—a global assessment of Sentinel-3". Environmental Research Letters, 2023, 18(7), 074017. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/acdd16

12. Xingxing Zhang, Zhaofei Liu*, Yubo Liu, Liguang Jiang, Rui Wang, Hou Jiang, Jing Li, Qiuhong Tang, Zhijun Yao. "Examining moisture contribution for precipitation in response to climate change and anthropogenic factors in Hengduan Mountain Region, China". Journal of Hydrology, 2023, 620B, 129562. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.129562

13. Jinghua Xiong, Liguang 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" Environmental Research Letters, 2023, 18(4), 044008. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/acbfd1

14. M. Coppo Frias*, S. Liu, X. Mo, K. Nielsen, H. Randall, L. Jiang, J. Ma, and P. Bauer-Gottwein. "River hydraulic modelling with ICEsat-2 land and water surface elevation" Hydrology and Earth System Sciences , 2023, 27(5). DOI: 10.5194/hess-27-1011-2023

15. Qiang Yu, Liguang Jiang*, Yanjun Wang, Junguo Liu. "Enhancing streamflow simulation using hybridized machine learning models in a semi-arid basin of the Chinese Loess Plateau". Journal of Hydrology, 2023, 617PC, 129115. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.129115

16. Xin Zhao*, Kazuya Nishina*, Tomoko Kawaguchi Akitsu, Liguang Jiang, Yuji Masutomi, Kenlo Nishida Nasahara. "Feature-based algorithm for large-scale rice phenology detection based on satellite images". Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2023, 329, 109283. DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2022.109283

17. Xingxing Zhang, Liguang Jiang*, Zhaofei Liu*, Cecile MM Kittel, Zhijun Yao, Daniel Druce, Rui Wang, Christian Tøttrup, Jun Liu, Hou Jiang, Peter Bauer-Gottwein. "Flow regime changes in the Lancang River, revealed by integrated modeling with multiple Earth observation datasets". Science of the Total Environment, 2023, 862, 160656. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.160656

18. Youjiang Shen, Dedi Liu*, Liguang Jiang, Karina Nielsen, Jiabo Yin, Jun Liu, and Peter Bauer-Gottwein. "High-resolution water level and storage variation datasets for 338 reservoirs in China during 2010–2020" Earth System Science Data, 2022, 14, 5671–5694. DOI: 10.5194/essd-14-5671-2022 

19. Jun Liu*, Liguang Jiang, Filippo Bandini, Cécile M.M. Kittel, Nicola Balbarini, Nisha Gill Hansted, Henrik Grosen, Peter Bauer-Gottwein. “Spatio-temporally varying Strickler coefficient: A calibration approach applied to a Danish river using in-situ water surface elevation and UAS altimetry”. Journal of Hydrology, 2022, 613, 128443. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2022.128443 

20. Youjiang Shen, Dedi Liu*, Liguang Jiang, Christian Tøttrup, Daniel Druce, Jiabo Yin, Karina Nielsen, Peter Bauer-Gottwein, Jun Wang, Xin Zhao. “Estimating Reservoir Release Using Multi-Source Satellite Datasets and Hydrological Modeling Techniques”. Remote Sensing, 2022, 14(4), 815. DOI: 10.3390/rs14040815

21. Liguang Jiang*, Silja Westphal Christensen, Peter Bauer-Gottwein. “Calibrating 1D hydrodynamic river models in the absence of cross-section geometry using satellite observations of water surface elevation and river width”. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences , 2021, 25(12). DOI: 110.5194/hess-25-6359-2021 

22. Jun Liu, Liguang Jiang*, Xingxing Zhang, Daniel Druce, Cécile M. M. Kittel, Christian Tøttrup, Peter Bauer-Gottwein. “Impacts of water resources management on land water storage in the North China Plain: insights from multi-mission earth observations”. Journal of Hydrology, 2021, 603, 126933 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126933

23. Shanshan Deng, Suxia Liu*, Xingguo Mo, Liguang Jiang, Peter Bauer-Gottwein. “Polar drift in the 1990s explained by terrestrial water storage change”. Geophysical Research Letters, 2021, 48(7). DOI: 10.1029/2020GL092114

24. International Altimetry Team, incl. Liguang Jiang. “Altimetry for the future: Building on 25 years of progress”. Advances in Space Research, 2021, 68(2). DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2021.01.022 

25. Cécile M.M. Kittel*, Liguang Jiang, Christian Tøttrup, Peter Bauer-Gottwein. “Sentinel-3 radar altimetry for river monitoring - a catchment-scale evaluation of satellite water surface elevation from Sentinel-3A and Sentinel-3B”. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 2021, 25(1). DOI: 10.5194/hess-25-333-2021

26. Youjiang Shen, Dedi Liu*, Liguang Jiang, Jiabo Yin, Karina Nielsen, Peter Bauer-Gottwein, Shenglian Guo, Jun Wang. “On the contribution of satellite altimetry-derived water surface elevation to hydrodynamic model calibration in the Han River”. Remote Sensing, 2020, 12(24), 4087. DOI: 10.3390/rs12244087

27. Liguang Jiang*, Karina Nielsen, Ole B. Andersen, Peter Bauer-Gottwein. “A bigger picture of how the Tibetan lakes have changed over the past decade revealed by CryoSat-2 altimetry”. Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, 2020, 125(23). DOI: 10.1029/2020JD033161

28. Xingxing Zhang, Liguang Jiang*, Cécile M. M. Kittel, Zhijun Yao, Karina Nielsen, Zhaofei Liu, Rui Wang, Jun Liu, Ole B. Andersen, Peter Bauer-Gottwein. “On the Performance of Sentinel‐3 Altimetry Over New Reservoirs: Approaches to Determine Onboard A Priori Elevation”. Geophysical Research Letters, 2020, 47(17). DOI: 10.1029/2020GL088770 

29. Guoqing Zhang*, Taodong Yao, Hongjie Xie, Kun Yang, Liping Zhu, C.K. Shum, Tobias Bolch, Shuang Yi, Simon Allen, Liguang Jiang, Wenfeng Chen, Changqing Ke. “Response of Tibetan Plateau’s lakes to climate changes: Trend, pattern, and mechanisms”. Earth-Science Reviews, 2020, 208(103269). DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103269

30. Liguang Jiang*, Filippo Bandini, Inger Jensen, Ole Smith, Peter Bauer-Gottwein. “The value of distributed high-resolution UAV-borne observations of water surface elevation for river management and hydrodynamic modelling”. Remote Sensing, 2020, 12(7), 1171. DOI: 10.3390/rs12071171 Feature paper (free of charge) 

31. Liguang Jiang*, Karina Nielsen, Salvatore Dinardo, Ole B. Andersen, Peter Bauer-Gottwein. “Evaluation of Sentinel-3 SRAL SAR altimetry over Chinese rivers”. Remote Sensing of Environment, 2020, 237, 111546. DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2019.111546 

32. Liguang Jiang*, Henrik Madsen, Peter Bauer-Gottwein. “Simultaneous Calibration of Multiple Hydrodynamic Model Parameters using Satellite Altimetry Observations of Water Surface Elevation in the Songhua River”. Remote Sensing of Environment, 2019,225: 229-247. DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2019.03.014 

33. Liguang Jiang*, Peter Bauer-Gottwein. “How do GPM IMERG precipitation estimates perform as hydrological model forcing? Evaluation for 300 catchments across Mainland China”. Journal of Hydrology, 2019, 572: 486-500. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2019.03.042 

34. Liguang Jiang*, Ole Baltazar Andersen, Karina Nielsen, Guoqing Zhang, Peter Bauer-Gottwein. “Influence of local geoid variation on water surface elevation estimates derived from multi-mission altimetry for Lake Namco”. Remote Sensing of Environment, 2019, 211: 65-79. DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2018.11.004

35. Liguang Jiang*, Karina Nielsen, Ole B. Andersen, Peter Bauer-Gottwein. “CryoSat-2 radar altimetry for monitoring freshwater resources of China”. Remote Sensing of Environment, 2017, 200: 125-139. DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2017.08.015

36. Liguang Jiang*, Raphael Schneider, Ole B. Andersen, Peter Bauer-Gottwein. “CryoSat-2 Altimetry Applications over Rivers and Lakes”. Water, 2017, 9(3), 211. DOI: 10.3390/w9030211

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

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

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

40. Lei Wang, Zhijun Yao*, Liguang Jiang, Rui Wang, Shanshan Wu, Zhaofei Liu. “Changes in climate extremes and catastrophic events in the Mongolian Plateau from 1951 to 2012”. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 2016, 55(5): 1169-1182. DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-14-0282.1

41. Liguang 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”. Natural Hazards, 2015, 76(3): 1831-1847. DOI: 10.1007/s11069-014-1569-6

42. Liguang 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”. Environmental Earth Sciences, 2015, 74(3): 2369-2379. DOI: 10.1007/s12665-015-4237-6

43. Liguang 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”. Journal of Geochemical Exploration, 2015, 155:76-83. DOI: 10.1016/j.gexplo.2015.04.009

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

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