Research Interests
Dr. Jida Wang is a broadly-trained physical geographer and hydrologist. His work focuses on surface water abundance and dynamics, particularly in lakes, reservoirs, and wetlands. He studies how these water stores function as sentinels, regulators, and integrators of climate change, and how lakes of different types interact with the river systems, the cryosphere, the carbon cycle, and human water managements. He conducts such studies through applications and innovations of integrated methods, which combine multi-sensor satellite remote sensing, in situ measurements, hydrological modeling, and AI/ML.
Additional Campus Affiliations
Associate Professor, Geography and Geographic Information Science
Associate Professor, Earth Science and Environmental Change
Recent Publications
Deng, X., Ke, L., Jiang, L., Nielsen, K., Fan, X., Wang, J., & Song, C. (Accepted/In press). A review of altimetry waveform retracking for inland water levels. Geodesy and Geodynamics. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geog.2025.02.001
McQuillan, K. A., Allen, G. H., Fayne, J., Gao, H., & Wang, J. (2025). Estimating Wind Direction and Wind Speed Over Lakes With Surface Water Ocean Topography and Sentinel-1 Satellite Observations. Earth and Space Science, 12(3), Article e2024EA003971. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024EA003971
Wang, J., Pottier, C., Cazals, C., Battude, M., Sheng, Y., Song, C., Sikder, M. S., Yang, X., Ke, L., Delhoume, M., Gosset, M., Oliveira, R. R. A., Grippa, M., Girard, F., Allen, G. H., Xu, X., Zhu, X., Biancamaria, S., Smith, L. C., ... Pavelsky, T. M. (2025). The Surface Water and Ocean Topography Mission (SWOT) Prior Lake Database (PLD): Lake Mask and Operational Auxiliaries. Water Resources Research, 61(3), Article e2023WR036896. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023WR036896
Zhou, T., Zhang, G., Wang, J., Zhu, Z., Woolway, R. I., Han, X., Xu, F., & Peng, J. (2025). A novel framework for accurate, automated and dynamic global lake mapping based on optical imagery. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 221, 280-298. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2025.02.008
Ding, M., Wang, J., Song, C., Sheng, Y., Shawn Hutchinson, J. M., Langston, A. L., & Marston, L. (2024). A framework of freshwater and saline lake typology classification through leveraging hydroclimate, spectral, and literature evidence. Journal of Hydrology, 632, Article 130704. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2024.130704