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D-Index
60
Citations
14811
World Ranking
2896
National Ranking
288

Overview

Xuecao Li is affiliated with China Agricultural University in China and specializes in Environmental Science, with a primary focus on the subfields of Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Environmental Engineering, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Atmospheric Science.

Their research topics cover a range of areas related to environmental changes and urban ecosystems. Key topics include:

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

Recent publications demonstrate engagement with high-impact journals and datasets. Selected papers include:

  • "High-spatiotemporal-resolution mapping of global urban change from 1985 to 2015," 2020, Nature Sustainability
  • "Mapping global urban boundaries from the global artificial impervious area (GAIA) data," 2020, Environmental Research Letters
  • "A harmonized global nighttime light dataset 1992-2018," 2020, Scientific Data
  • "A global record of annual terrestrial Human Footprint dataset from 2000 to 2018," 2022, Scientific Data
  • "The impact of Russia-Ukraine conflict on global food security," 2022, Global Food Security

Xuecao Li regularly publishes in several venues, with the highest number of publications in:

  • Remote Sensing
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Earth system science data
  • ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Their collaborative network reflects frequent co-authorship with several researchers, notably:

  • Jianxi Huang
  • Yuyu Zhou
  • Peng Gong
  • Wei Su
  • Shuangxi Miao

Best Publications

  • Annual maps of global artificial impervious area (GAIA) between 1985 and 2018

    Peng Gong;Xuecao Li;Jie Wang;Jie Wang;Yuqi Bai

  • High-spatiotemporal-resolution mapping of global urban change from 1985 to 2015

    Xiaoping Liu;Yinghuai Huang;Xiaocong Xu;Xuecao Li

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

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

  • A global record of annual terrestrial Human Footprint dataset from 2000 to 2018

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  • Mapping essential urban land use categories in China (EULUC-China): preliminary results for 2018

    Peng Gong;Bin Chen;Xuecao Li;Han Liu

  • A harmonized global nighttime light dataset 1992-2018.

    Xuecao Li;Yuyu Zhou;Min Zhao;Xia Zhao

  • 40-Year (1978─2017) human settlement changes in China reflected by impervious surfaces from satellite remote sensing

    Peng Gong;Xuecao Li;Wei Zhang

  • A 30-year (1984–2013) record of annual urban dynamics of Beijing City derived from Landsat data

    Xuecao Li;Peng Gong;Peng Gong;Lu Liang;Lu Liang

  • Mapping Urban Land Use by Using Landsat Images and Open Social Data

    Tengyun Hu;Jun Yang;Xuecao Li;Peng Gong

  • The surface urban heat island response to urban expansion: A panel analysis for the conterminous United States

    Xiaoma Li;Yuyu Zhou;Ghassem R. Asrar;Marc Imhoff

  • Applications of Satellite Remote Sensing of Nighttime Light Observations: Advances, Challenges, and Perspectives

    Min Zhao;Yuyu Zhou;Xuecao Li;Wenting Cao

  • Progress and Trends in the Application of Google Earth and Google Earth Engine

    Qiang Zhao;Le Yu;Xuecao Li;Dailiang Peng

  • A global record of annual urban dynamics (1992-2013) from nighttime lights

    Yuyu Zhou;Xuecao Li;Ghassem R. Asrar;Steven J. Smith

  • Urban growth models: progress and perspective

    Xuecao Li;Peng Gong;Peng Gong

  • Urban mapping using DMSP/OLS stable night-time light: a review

    Xuecao Li;Yuyu Zhou

  • Mapping urban dynamics (1992-2018) in Southeast Asia using consistent nighttime light data from DMSP and VIIRS

    Min Zhao;Yuyu Zhou;Xuecao Li;Weiming Cheng;Weiming Cheng

  • Response of vegetation phenology to urbanization in the conterminous United States

    Xuecao Li;Yuyu Zhou;Ghassem R. Asrar;Jiafu Mao

  • The first all-season sample set for mapping global land cover with Landsat-8 data

    Congcong Li;Congcong Li;Peng Gong;Jie Wang;Zhiliang Zhu

  • Developing a method to estimate building height from Sentinel-1 data

    Xuecao Li;Yuyu Zhou;Peng Gong;Karen C. Seto

  • Meta-discoveries from a synthesis of satellite-based land-cover mapping research

    Le Yu;Lu Liang;Jie Wang;Yuanyuan Zhao

  • Urban warming advances spring phenology but reduces the response of phenology to temperature in the conterminous United States.

    Lin Meng;Jiafu Mao;Yuyu Zhou;Andrew D. Richardson

  • Life history of western flower thrips, Frankliniella occidentalis (Thysan., Thripae), on five different vegetable leaves

    Z.-J. Zhang;Q.-J. Wu;X.-F. Li;Y.-J. Zhang

  • A multi-resolution global land cover dataset through multisource data aggregation

    Le Yu;Jie Wang;XueCao Li;CongCong Li

Frequent Co-Authors

Peng Gong
Peng Gong University of Hong Kong
Yuyu Zhou
Yuyu Zhou Iowa State University
Le Yu
Le Yu Tsinghua University
Ghassem R. Asrar
Ghassem R. Asrar Universities Space Research Association
Xiaoping Liu
Xiaoping Liu Sun Yat-sen University
Zhiliang Zhu
Zhiliang Zhu United States Geological Survey
Nicholas Clinton
Nicholas Clinton Google (United States)
Bing Xu
Bing Xu Tsinghua University
Bin Chen
Bin Chen Beijing Normal University
Jiafu Mao
Jiafu Mao Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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