Jiangui Liu

Physical Scientist

Conduct studies in quantitative remote sensing of land surface properties and vegetation productivity, agricultural land use and land management and their impact on agroecosystem sustainability and climate change

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

960 Carling Avenue Ottawa, ON K1A 0C6

Current research and/or projects

Sustainability Metrics

Agricultural Climate Solutions

Woody biomass

Research and/or project statements

Verify agricultural beneficial management practices, and develop tools for operational report of national scale agri-environmental indicators;

Monitor agricultural land vegetation health, functioning and productivity under interactions of land-use/land-management and climate change;

Study on cropland albedo change and impact to climate change;

Develop methods for mapping woody biomass and modeling carbon trend

Education and awards

Ph.D.: Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1999

M.Sc.: Lanzhou Institute of Physics, 1993

B.E.: Tsinghua Univeristy, 1990

Additional links

Researchgate/Jiangui Liu

Google Scholar/Jiangui Liu

Key publications

Budong Qian, Qi Jing, Guillaume Jégo, Gilles Bélanger, Ward Smith, Andy VanderZaag, Jiali Shang, Jiangui Liu, Brian Grant, Marianne Crépeau.2023. Warmer future climate in Canada – implications for plant hardiness and winter survival of perennial forage crops. Canadian Geophysical Union 2023 Annual Meeting, May 07-10, 2023, Banff, Alberta, Canada
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Liu, J., Worth, D.E., Desjardins, R.L., Haak, D., McConkey, B., Cerkowniak, D. (2021). Influence of two management practices in the Canadian Prairies on radiative forcing. Science of the Total Environment, [online] 765 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.142701
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Jing, Q., McConkey, B., Qian, B., Smith, W., Grant, B., Shang, J., Liu, J., Bindraban, P., Luce, M.S. (2021). Assessing water management effects on spring wheat yield in the Canadian Prairies using DSSAT wheat models. Agricultural Water Management, [online] 244 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2020.106591
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Liu, J., Huffman, T., Green, M., Joosse, P., Martin, T. (2020). Changes in land use and management by farm type and the impact on soil cover in Canada, 1991–2011. Ecological Indicators, [online] 116 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106531
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Croft, H., Arabian, J., Chen, J.M., Shang, J., Liu, J. (2020). Mapping within-field leaf chlorophyll content in agricultural crops for nitrogen management using Landsat-8 imagery. Precision Agriculture, [online] 21(4), 856-880. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11119-019-09698-y
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Jiao, Q., Liu, L., Liu, J., Zhang, H., Zhang, B. (2020). Atmospherically resistant vegetation water indices using the 970-nm water absorption feature. Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, [online] 14(3), http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/1.JRS.14.034504
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Meng, X., Bao, Y., Liu, J., Liu, H., Zhang, X., Zhang, Y., Wang, P., Tang, H., Kong, F. (2020). Regional soil organic carbon prediction model based on a discrete wavelet analysis of hyperspectral satellite data. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, [online] 89 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2020.102111
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Shang, J., Liu, J., Poncos, V., Geng, X., Qian, B., Chen, Q., Dong, T., Macdonald, D., Martin, T., Kovacs, J., Walters, D. (2020). Detection of crop seeding and harvest through analysis of time-series Sentinel-1 interferometric SAR data. Remote Sensing, [online] 12(10), http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs12101551
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Liu, J., Huffman, T., Qian, B., Shang, J., Li, Q., Dong, T., Davidson, A., Jing, Q. (2020). Crop Yield Estimation in the Canadian Prairies Using Terra/MODIS-Derived Crop Metrics. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, [online] 13 2685-2697. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2020.2984158
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Dong, T., Shang, J., Liu, J., Qian, B., Jing, Q., Ma, B., Huffman, T., Geng, X., Sow, A., Shi, Y., Canisius, F., Jiao, X., Kovacs, J.M., Walters, D., Cable, J., Wilson, J. (2019). Using RapidEye imagery to identify within-field variability of crop growth and yield in Ontario, Canada. Precision Agriculture, [online] 20(6), 1231-1250. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11119-019-09646-w
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Dong, T., Shang, J., Chen, J.M., Liu, J., Qian, B., Ma, B., Morrison, M.J., Zhang, C., Liu, Y., Shi, Y., Pan, H., Zhou, G. (2019). Assessment of portable chlorophyll meters for measuring crop leaf chlorophyll concentration. Remote Sensing, [online] 11(22), http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs11222706
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Zhang, C., Liu, J., Dong, T., Shang, J., Tang, M., Zhao, L., Cai, H. (2019). Evaluation of the simple algorithm for yield estimate model in winter wheat simulation under different irrigation scenarios. Agronomy Journal, [online] 111(6), 2970-2980. http://dx.doi.org/10.2134/agronj2019.04.0305
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Liu, J., Shang, J., Qian, B., Huffman, T., Zhang, Y., Dong, T., Jing, Q., Martin, T. (2019). Crop yield estimation using time-series MODIS data and the effects of cropland masks in Ontario, Canada. Remote Sensing, [online] 11(20), http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs11202419
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Dong, T., Shang, J., Qian, B., Liu, J., Chen, J.M., Jing, Q., McConkey, B., Huffman, T., Daneshfar, B., Champagne, C., Davidson, A., MacDonald, D. (2019). Field-scale crop seeding date estimation from MODIS data and growing degree days in Manitoba, Canada. Remote Sensing, [online] 11(15), http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs11151760
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Cheng, Z., Meng, J., Shang, J., Liu, J., Qiao, Y., Qian, B., Jing, Q., Dong, T. (2019). Improving Soil Available Nutrient Estimation by Integrating Modified WOFOST Model and Time-Series Earth Observations. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, [online] 57(5), 2896-2908. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2018.2878382
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Wang, L., Zhang, G., Wang, Z., Liu, J., Shang, J., Liang, L. (2019). Bibliometric analysis of remote sensing research trend in crop growth monitoring: A case study in China. Remote Sensing, [online] 11(7), http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs11070809
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Dong, T., Liu, J., Shang, J., Qian, B., Ma, B., Kovacs, J.M., Walters, D., Jiao, X., Geng, X., Shi, Y. (2019). Assessment of red-edge vegetation indices for crop leaf area index estimation. Remote Sensing of Environment, [online] 222 133-143. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2018.12.032
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Liao, C., Wang, J., Dong, T., Shang, J., Liu, J., Song, Y. (2019). Using spatio-temporal fusion of Landsat-8 and MODIS data to derive phenology, biomass and yield estimates for corn and soybean. Science of the Total Environment, [online] 650 1707-1721. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.09.308
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Du, X., Li, Q., Shang, J., Liu, J., Qian, B., Jing, Q., Dong, T., Fan, D., Wang, H., Zhao, L., Lieff, S., Davies, T. (2019). Detecting advanced stages of winter wheat yellow rust and aphid infection using RapidEye data in North China Plain. GIScience and Remote Sensing, [online] 56(7), 1093-1113. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15481603.2019.1613804
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Zhang, C., Liu, J., Dong, T., Pattey, E., Shang, J., Tang, M., Cai, H., Saddique, Q. (2019). Coupling hyperspectral remote sensing data with a crop model to study winter wheat water demand. Remote Sensing, [online] 11(14), http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs11141684
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