Langezijds

dr. J. Wang (Jon)

Assistant Professor
ITC-PGM
Langezijds
j.wang-4@utwente.nl
+31534894079
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My overarching research interests involve understanding the dynamics and interactions of geographic processes, with special focus on urban development and interventions to adapt to extreme events. In operationalizing my research, I primarily rely on earth observation-based techniques to measure variables, and geospatial analysis along with artificial intelligence to explore patterns in space and time.

In the department of PGM, my major focuses are: (1) mapping urban morphology, and (2) understanding environmental risk of deprived groups.

Expertise

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

    • Metropolitan Area
    • Observation
    • Earth
    • Datum
    • Investigation
    • Morphology
    • Shape
    • Land Surface Temperature

Organisations

Strategic themes / Focus areas

  • Urban remote sensing
  • Urban climate
  • Spatiotemporal analysis
  • Applied data science


Skills

  • Remote sensing
  • Image analysis
  • GIS
  • Machine learning

Publications

2025

Geoinformation dependencies in geographic space and beyond (2025)[Working paper › Preprint]. ArXiv.org. Wang, J. & Lu, M.https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2505.01260

2024

AI perceives like a local: predicting citizen deprivation perception using satellite imagery (2024)npj Urban Sustainability, 4(1). Article 20. Abascal, A., Vanhuysse, S., Grippa, T., Rodriguez-Carreño, I., Georganos, S., Wang, J., Kuffer, M., Martinez-Diez, P., Santamaria-Varas, M. & Wolff, E.https://doi.org/10.1038/s42949-024-00156-xLeveraging geospatial information to map perceived tenure insecurity in urban deprivation areas (2024)Land, 13(9). Article 1429. Dufitimana, E., Wang, J. & Kohli - Poll Jonker, D.https://doi.org/10.3390/land13091429A spatial data-driven urban pattern language framework for design and planning (2024)[Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT]. University of Twente, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC). Wu, C.https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036561631Feature-guided deep learning model for mapping deprived areas (2024)In 2024 International Conference on Machine Intelligence for GeoAnalytics and Remote Sensing, MIGARS 2024. IEEE. Filho, P. S., Tareke, B., Persello, C., Kuffer, M., Maretto, R., Abascal, A., Wang, J. & MacHado, R.https://doi.org/10.1109/MIGARS61408.2024.10544988Making Urban Slum Population Visible: Citizens and Satellites to Reinforce Slum Censuses (2024)In Urban Inequalities from Space: Earth Observation Applications in the Majority World (pp. 287-302) (Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing; Vol. 26). Springer. Abascal, A., Georganos, S., Kuffer, M., Vanhuysse, S., Thomson, D., Wang, J., Manyasi, L., Otunga, D. M., Ochieng, B., Ochieng, T., Klinnert, J. & Wolff, E.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49183-2_14Putting the Invisible on the Map: Low-Cost Earth Observation for Mapping and Characterizing Deprived Urban Areas (Slums) (2024)In Urban Inequalities from Space: Earth Observation Applications in the Majority World (pp. 119-137) (Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing; Vol. 26). Springer. Vanhuysse, S., Kuffer, M., Georganos, S., Wang, J., Abascal, A., Grippa, T. & Wolff, E.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49183-2_7Machine learning-based characterisation of urban morphology with the street pattern (2024)Computers, environment and urban systems, 109. Article 102078. Wu, C., Wang, J., Wang, M. & Kraak, M.-J.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2024.102078Mapping street patterns with network science and supervised machine learning (2024)ISPRS international journal of geo-information, 13(4). Article 114. Wu, C., Wang, Y., Wang, J., Kraak, M.-J. & Wang, M.https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi13040114Heat exposure of deprivation through air temperature modelling (2024)In IGARSS 2024 : 2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (pp. 1156-1159) (Proceedings International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS); Vol. 2024). IEEE. Abascal, A., Wang, J., Kuffer, M., Georganos, S. & Vanhuysse, S.https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS53475.2024.10640489

Research profiles

Ph.D.,Research Center of Digital City, Wuhan University, China; Collaborative Innovation Center of Geospatial Technology, Wuhan, China.

Master of Urban Planning,The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.System dynamic modeling of urban sustainable development.

B.S. in Resource, Environment and Planning,

Chengdu

University of Technology, Chengdu, China

Courses academic year 2024/2025

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Courses academic year 2023/2024

Address

University of Twente

Langezijds (building no. 19)
Hallenweg 8
7522 NH Enschede
Netherlands

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