Short Biography

Dr. Jia Tian received her PhD degree from Cornell University majoring in remote sensing. She is now focusing on hyperspectral remote sensing and its applications in vegetation, environment, and ecology, including radiative transfer modeling, retrieval and mapping of land cover information, and wildfire monitoring and risk evaluation. Dr. Tian has published more than 50 papers with more than 1000 citations, and has led or participated in multiple projects supported by national natural science foundation of China, National Science and Technology Major Project of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, etc.

Research Area

1. Hyperspectral feature modeling and quantitative retrieval

2. Target spectral information identification and extraction

3. Hyperspectral remote sensing imagery intelligent interpretation

Courses

1. Research Class (Undergraduate)

(2) Quantitative Remote Sensing Fundamental (Undergraduate)

(3) Selected Lectures on Applied Mathematical Methods (Graduate)

Papers & Books 

1. Tian, J., Zhang Z., Philpot, W., et al., 2023, Simultaneous estimation of fractional cover of photosynthetic and non-photosynthetic vegetation using visible-near infrared satellite imagery. Remote Sensing of Environment, 290, 113549.

2. Tian, J.*, Yue, J., Philpot, W., et al., Soil moisture content estimate with drying process segmentation using shortwave infrared bands, Remote Sensing of Environment. 2021. 263, 112552.

3. Tian, J.*, Philpot, W., 2015. Relationship between surface soil water content, evaporation rate, and water absorption band depths in SWIR reflectance spectra. Remote Sensing of Environment 169: 280-289.

4. Tian, J., Tian, Q., Li, S., et al., 2024, Quasi-HSL color space and its application: Sunlit and shaded component fractional cover estimation in vegetated ecosystem, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 135, 104298.

5. Tian, J., Tian, Q., Li, S., et al., 2024, Centroid-based endmember optimization of the triangular space method for fractional cover estimation: Mapping fractional cover of a vegetated ecosystem on Sentinel-3 OLCI image, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 134, 104153.

6. Tian, J.*, Su, S., Tian, Q., et al., A novel spectral index for estimating fractional cover of non-photosynthetic vegetation using near-infrared bands of Sentinel satellite, International Journal of Applied Earth Observations and Geoinformation. 2021. 101, 102361.

7. Tian, J.*, Philpot, W., 2018. Spectral transmittance of a translucent sand sample with directional illumination. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. vol. 56, no. 8, 4307-4317.

8. Tian, J.*, Philpot, W., 2018. Soil directional (biconical) reflectance in the principal plane with varied illumination angle under dry and saturated conditions. Optics Express. vol. 26, issue. 18, 23883-23897.