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Engineering and Technology
China
2025

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Engineering and Technology

D-Index
76
Citations
20951
World Ranking
708
National Ranking
121

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in China Leader Award

Overview

Xia Li is affiliated with East China Normal University in China. Their research primarily spans the field of Environmental Science, with a particular focus on the subfields of Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Ecology, and Atmospheric Science.

The main topics Xia Li has contributed to include:

  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Impact of Light on Environment and Health
  • Urban Heat Island Mitigation
  • Urban Transport and Accessibility
  • Urban Green Space and Health
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria

Xia Li has published extensively, with notable papers such as:

  • High-spatiotemporal-resolution mapping of global urban change from 1985 to 2015, 2020, Nature Sustainability
  • Global projections of future urban land expansion under shared socioeconomic pathways, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Mapping global urban boundaries from the global artificial impervious area (GAIA) data, 2020, Environmental Research Letters
  • Projections of land use changes under the plant functional type classification in different SSP-RCP scenarios in China, 2020, Science Bulletin
  • Global land projection based on plant functional types with a 1-km resolution under socio-climatic scenarios, 2022, Scientific Data

Frequent coauthors in Xia Li's body of work include Guohua Hu, Kelong Zhu, Xiaoping Liu, Yimin Chen, and Guangzhao Chen.

The venues where Xia Li publishes most frequently are:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Communications

In addition to journal articles, Xia Li has contributed to book publications, including a title in the "Lecture notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering" series: Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools published in 2021.

Best Publications

  • A future land use simulation model (FLUS) for simulating multiple land use scenarios by coupling human and natural effects

    Xiaoping Liu;Xun Liang;Xia Li;Xia Li;Xiaocong Xu

  • Neural-network-based cellular automata for simulating multiple land use changes using GIS

    Xia Li;Anthony Gar-On Yeh

  • Modelling sustainable urban development by the integration of constrained cellular automata and GIS

    Xia Li;Anthony Gar-On Yeh

  • Mapping global urban boundaries from the global artificial impervious area (GAIA) data

    Xuecao Li;Peng Gong;Yuyu Zhou;Jie Wang;Jie Wang

  • High-resolution multi-temporal mapping of global urban land using Landsat images based on the Google Earth Engine Platform

    Xiaoping Liu;Guohua Hu;Yimin Chen;Xia Li

  • Measurement and monitoring of urban sprawl in a rapidly growing region using entropy

    Anthony Gar-On Yeh;Xia Li

  • Sensing spatial distribution of urban land use by integrating points-of-interest and Google Word2Vec model

    Yao Yao;Xia Li;Xiaoping Liu;Penghua Liu

  • A New Global Land-Use and Land-Cover Change Product at a 1-km Resolution for 2010 to 2100 Based on Human–Environment Interactions

    Xia Li;Guangzhao Chen;Xiaoping Liu;Xun Liang

  • Cellular automata for simulating land use changes based on support vector machines

    Qingsheng Yang;Xia Li;Xun Shi

  • A novel algorithm for land use and land cover classification using RADARSAT-2 polarimetric SAR data

    Zhixin Qi;Anthony Gar-On Yeh;Xia Li;Zheng Lin

  • A Constrained CA Model for the Simulation and Planning of Sustainable Urban Forms by Using GIS

    Anthony Gar-On Yeh;Xia Li

  • Simulating urban growth by integrating landscape expansion index LEI and cellular automata

    Xiaoping Liu;Lei Ma;Xia Li;Bin Ai

  • Modeling urban land-use dynamics in a fast developing city using the modified logistic cellular automaton with a patch-based simulation strategy

    Yimin Chen;Xia Li;Xiaoping Liu;Bin Ai

  • Quantifying the relationship between urban forms and carbon emissions using panel data analysis

    Jinpei Ou;Xiaoping Liu;Xia Li;Yimin Chen

  • Sustainable land development model for rapid growth areas using GIS

    Anthony Gar-On Yeh;Xia Li

  • Data mining of cellular automata's transition rules

    Xia Li;Anthony Gar-On Yeh

  • Estimating the relationship between urban forms and energy consumption: A case study in the Pearl River Delta, 2005–2008

    Yimin Chen;Xia Li;Yong Zheng;Yanyan Guan

  • Minimum Volume Simplex Analysis: A Fast Algorithm for Linear Hyperspectral Unmixing

    Jun Li;Alexander Agathos;Daniela Zaharie;Jose M. Bioucas-Dias

  • CALIBRATION OF CELLULAR AUTOMATA BY USING NEURAL NETWORKS FOR THE SIMULATION OF COMPLEX URBAN SYSTEMS

    Xia Li;Anthony Gar-On Yeh

  • Modelling the population density of China at the pixel level based on DMSP/OLS non-radiance-calibrated night-time light images

    L. Zhuo;T. Ichinose;J. Zheng;J. Chen

  • A bottom-up approach to discover transition rules of cellular automata using ant intelligence

    Xiaoping Liu;Xia Li;Lin Liu;Jinqiang He

  • Mapping fine-scale population distributions at the building level by integrating multisource geospatial big data

    Yao Yao;Xiaoping Liu;Xia Li;Jinbao Zhang

Frequent Co-Authors

Xiaoping Liu
Xiaoping Liu Sun Yat-sen University
Anthony Gar-On Yeh
Anthony Gar-On Yeh University of Hong Kong
Lin Liu
Lin Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Shaojian Wang
Shaojian Wang Sun Yat-sen University
Klaus Hubacek
Klaus Hubacek University of Groningen
Peijun Shi
Peijun Shi Beijing Normal University
Peng Gong
Peng Gong University of Hong Kong
Kuishuang Feng
Kuishuang Feng University of Hong Kong
Laixiang Sun
Laixiang Sun University of Maryland, College Park
Jianguo Wu
Jianguo Wu Arizona State University

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