Dr Jianglei XU
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Education:
Ph.D. in Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University (09/2020-06/2023)
M.S. in Cartography and Geographic Information Sciences, Beijing Normal University (09/2017-06/2020)
B.S. in Geographic Information Sciences (09/2013-06/2017)
Research Interests:
Earth energy budget, inversion algorithms development
high-level satellite products generation
spatiotemporal analysis on variations of earth energy budget
Publications:
Xu, J., Liang, S., Ma, H., Chen, Y., Li, W., Ma, Y., Zhao, X., Jiang, B., Zhang, X., & Guan, S. (2026). Joint estimation of global daily 1 km surface radiation budget components from MODIS observations (2000−2023) using conservation-constrained deep neural networks. Remote Sensing of Environment, 333, 115135.
Xu, J., Liang, S., Ma, H., He, T., Zhang, Y., & Zhang, G. (2023). A daily 5-km all-sky sea-surface longwave radiation product based on statistically modified deep neural network and spatiotemporal analysis for 1981–2018. Remote Sensing of Environment, 290, 113550.
Xu, J., Liang, S., He, T., Ma, H., Zhang, Y., Zhang, G., et al. (2023). Variability and trends in land surface longwave radiation fluxes from six satellite and reanalysis products. International Journal of Digital Earth, 16(1), 2912–2940.
Xu, J., Liang, S., Ma, H., & He, T. (2022). Generating 5 km resolution 1981–2018 daily global land surface longwave radiation products from AVHRR shortwave and longwave observations using densely connected convolutional neural networks. Remote Sensing of Environment, 280, 113223.
Xu, J., Liang, S., & Jiang, B. (2022). A global long-term (1981–2019) daily land surface radiation budget product from AVHRR satellite data using a residual convolutional neural network. Earth System Science Data, 14, 2315–2341.
Xu, J., Jiang, B., Liang, S., Li, X., Wang, Y., Peng, J., Chen, H., Liang, H., & Li, S. (2020). Generating a high-resolution time-series ocean surface net radiation product by downscaling J-OFURO3. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.
Xu, J., & Jiang, B. (2019). Downscaling ocean surface net radiation at global scales with random forest. IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Yokohama, Japan.
Ma, Y., Liang, S., Ma, H., He, T., Shi, X., Li, W., Cai, D., Xiao, X., Guan, S., Liu, W., Xu, J., Chen, Y., & Zhang, Y. (2026). An integrated atmospheric-topographic correction framework for land surface reflectance estimation using a spatial-spectral Attention U-Net model. Remote Sensing of Environment, 334, 115188.
Li, W., Liang, S., Chen, K., Chen, Y., Ma, H., Xu, J., Ma, Y., Zhang, Y., Guan, S., Fang, H., & Shi, Z. (2026). AgriFM: A multi-source temporal remote sensing foundation model for agriculture mapping. Remote Sensing of Environment, 334, 115234.
Fang, H., Liang, S., Li, W., Chen, Y., Ma, H., Xu, J., Ma, Y., He, T., Tian, F., Zhang, F., & Liang, H. (2026). Generating an annual 30 m rice cover product for monsoon Asia (2018–2023) using harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 data and the NASA-IBM geospatial foundation model. Remote Sensing of Environment, 335, 115256.
Liang, H., Liang, S., Jiang, B., He, T., Tian, F., Xu, J., … & Fang, H. (2025). Generation of global 1 km daily land surface–air temperature difference and sensible heat flux products from 2000 to 2020. Earth System Science Data, 17, 5571–5600.
Zhang, Y., Liang, S., Ma, H., He, T., Tian, F., Zhang, G., & Xu, J. (2025). A seamless global daily 5 km soil moisture product from 1982 to 2021 using AVHRR satellite data and an attention-based deep learning model. Earth System Science Data, 17, 5181–5207.
Ma, H., Wang, Q., Li, W., Chen, Y., Xu, J., Ma, Y., Huang, J., & Liang, S. (2025). The first gap-free 20 m 5-day LAI/FAPAR products over China (2018–2023) from integrated Landsat-8/9 and Sentinel-2 Analysis Ready Data. Remote Sensing of Environment, 331, 115048.
Zhang, G., Liang, S., Ma, H., He, T., Yin, G., Xu, J., Liu, X., & Zhang, Y. (2024). Simultaneous estimation of five temporally regular land variables at seven spatial resolutions from seven satellite data using a multi-scale and multi-depth convolutional neural network. Remote Sensing of Environment, 301, 113928.
Jiang, B., Liang, S., Jia, A., Xu, J., Zhang, X., Xiao, Z., Zhao, X., Jia, K., & Yao, Y. (2018). Validation of the surface daytime net radiation product from version 4.0 GLASS product suite. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 16(4), 509–513.
Zhang, G., Liang, S., Ma, H., He, T., Yin, G., Xu, J., et al. (2024). Simultaneous estimation of five temporally regular land variables at seven spatial resolutions from seven satellite data using a multi-scale and multi-depth convolutional neural network. Remote Sensing of Environment, 301, 113928.
Liu, X., Liang, S., Ma, H., Li, B., Zhang, Y., Li, Y., He, T., Zhang, G., Xu, J., & Xiong, C. (2024). Landsat-observed changes in forest cover and attribution analysis over Northern China from 1996‒2020. GIScience & Remote Sensing, 61(1), 2300214.
Xiong, C., Ma, H., Liang, S., He, T., Zhang, Y., Zhang, G., & Xu, J. (2023). Improved global 250 m 8-day NDVI and EVI products from 2000–2021 using the LSTM model. Scientific Data, 10(1), 800.
Zhang, Y., Liang, S., Ma, H., He, T., Wang, Q., Li, B., Xu, J., Zhang, G., et al. (2023). Generation of global 1-km daily soil moisture product from 2000 to 2020 using ensemble learning. Earth System Science Data Discussions, 2023, 1–37.

