Langezijds

dr. J. Wang (Jon)

Assistant Professor
ITC-SCI-PLAN
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
    • Land Surface Temperature
    • Morphology
    • Shape

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Strategic themes / Focus areas

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


Skills

  • Remote sensing
  • Image analysis
  • GIS
  • Machine learning

Publications

2025

Exploring the Influence of Building Morphology on Surface Temperatures: A Multi-City Analysis in Europe (2025)Building and environment, 282. Article 113274. Roy, S. D., Kuffer, M. & Wang, J.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2025.113274Comparing urban growth patterns based on Local Climate Zones for three Chilean cities: Temuco, Valdivia, and Puerto Montt (2025)[Dataset Types › Dataset]. Zenodo. Mauricio, M., Pfeffer, K., Wang, J., Maturana, F. & Schwarz, N.https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16809807Mapping Deprived Urban Areas with an Optimized Loss-weight Feature-guided Deep Learning Model (2025)In 2025 Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event (JURSE) (pp. 1-4) (Proceedings Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event (JURSE); Vol. 2025). IEEE. Filho, P. S., Tareke, B., Persello, C., Maretto, R. V., Machado, R., Kuffer, M., Abascal, A. & Wang, J.https://doi.org/10.1109/JURSE60372.2025.11075980Formalising the urban pattern language: A morphological paradigm towards understanding the multi-scalar spatial structure of cities (2025)Cities, 161. Article 105854. Wu, C., Wang, J., Wang, M., Biljecki, F. & Kraak, M. J.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2025.105854Innovative data solutions for inclusive cities: The IDEAtlas User Portal (2025)In The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences: 44th EARSeL Symposium (pp. 237-243) (International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences). Copernicus. Tareke, B., Silva Filho, P., Persello, C., Kuffer, M., Maretto, R. V., Wang, J., Abascal, A., Pillai, P., Singh, B., D'Attoli, J. M., Kabaria, C., Pedrassoli, J., Brito, P., Elias, P., Villaseñor, E. A., Ramírez Santiago, A., Mulyana, W., Pratomo, J., Leska, R., … Thomson, D. R.https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLVIII-M-7-2025-237-2025Using low-cost sensors and citizen science: Assessing thermal inequality in African slums (2025)In Proceedings of the 44th EARSeL Symposium (pp. 229-236) (International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences). Copernicus. Sampson, S. A., Abascal, A., Wang, J., Vanhuysse, S., Rodríguez Carreño, I., Garcia Ruiz, I. & Kuffer, M.https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLVIII-M-7-2025-229-2025Geoinformation 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/10.3990/1.9789036561631

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 2025/2026

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Courses academic year 2024/2025

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University of Twente

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

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