About Me
I am an Associate Professor in Ecological Remote Sensing at the University of Twente. I received my Ph.D. degree in Spatial Ecology from Wageningen University in 2009 and the MSc degree in GIS and Remote Sensing from the International Institute for Geo-information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) in 2003. My career includes 12 years working in the area of nature conservation before moving to university work. I teach postgraduate coursework in Remote Sensing and Statistics.
My research focuses on biodiversity mapping and monitoring using satellite remote sensing, ecological niche modeling, and artificial intelligence techniques. I am particularly interested in how ecologically relevant information can be extracted from remotely sensed data at different spatial and temporal scales, and how the information can help us better understand the impacts of land use and climate change on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, and how this knowledge can be used for guiding biodiversity conservation, and thereby achieving sustainable development goals.
I have successfully supervised 17 Ph.D. students and 36 Master’s students. I am currently supervising 9 Ph.D. students. I also supervise Ph.D. student in collaboration with the University of Oxford. In addition, I am regularly invited to serve as a member of doctoral degree examination committee in Belgium and in South Africa.
Expertise
Earth & Environmental Sciences
# Biodiversity
# Canopy
# Elephant
# Laser
# Leaf Area Index
# Remote Sensing
Agriculture & Biology
# Elephantidae
# Remote Sensing
Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), Department of Natural Resources (NRS)Publications
Recent
Zong, X.
, Wang, T.
, Skidmore, A. K., & Heurich, M. (2023).
Habitat visibility affects the behavioral response of a large herbivore to human disturbance in forest landscapes.
Journal of environmental management,
348, 1-11. Article 119244.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.119244
Liu, J.
, Wang, T.
, Skidmore, A. K., Sun, Y., Jia, P., & Zhang, K. (2023).
Integrated 1D, 2D, and 3D CNNs enable robust and efficient land cover classification from hyperspectral imagery.
Remote sensing,
15(19), 1-16. Article 4797.
https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15194797
Xu, Y.
, Wang, T.
, Skidmore, A. K., & Gara, T. (2023).
A novel approach to match individual trees between aerial photographs and airborne LiDAR data.
Remote sensing,
15(17), 1-24. Article 4128. Advance online publication.
https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15174128
Ma, X., Ding, J.
, Wang, T., Lu, L., Sun, H., Zhang, F., Chen, X., & Nurmemet, I. (2023).
A pixel dichotomy coupled linear kernel-driven model for estimating fractional vegetation cover in arid areas from high-spatial-resolution images.
IEEE transactions on geoscience and remote sensing,
61, 1-15. Article 4406015.
https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2023.3289093
Yu, H. (2023).
Using open-source biodiversity data to predict present and future macrofungal diversity and distribution in Europe. [PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT, University of Twente, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation]. University of Twente, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC).
https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036556637
Zong, X. (2023).
Advancing Animal Ecology through LiDAR-Based 3D Visibility Analysis. [PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT, University of Twente, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation]. University of Twente, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC).
https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036556613
Wu, Z., Zhang, C., Gu, X., Duporge, I., Hughey, L., Stabach, J.
, Skidmore, A. K., Hopcraft, G., Lee, S., Atkinson, P., McCauley, D., Lamprey, R.
, Ngene, S. M.
, & Wang, T. (2023).
Deep learning enables satellite-based monitoring of large populations of terrestrial mammals across heterogeneous landscape.
Nature communications,
14, Article 3072. Advance online publication.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-38901-y
Yu, H.
, Wang, T.
, Skidmore, A. K., Heurich, M., & Bässler, C. (2023).
How future climate and tree distribution changes shape the biodiversity of macrofungi across Europe.
Diversity and distributions,
29(5), 666-682. Advance online publication.
https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13688
Zhang, Z.
, Wang, T.
, Skidmore, A. K., Cao, F., She, G., & Cao, L. (2023).
An improved area-based approach for estimating plot-level tree DBH from airborne LiDAR data.
Forest Ecosystems,
10, Article 100089.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fecs.2023.100089
Adiningrat, D. P.
, Skidmore, A. K.
, Schlund, M.
, & Wang, T. (2022).
Characterizing old-growth forests from multisource remote sensing. Poster session presented at ForestSAT 2022, Berlin, Germany.
Zong, X.
, Wang, T.
, Skidmore, A. K., & Heurich, M. (2022).
LiDAR reveals a preference for intermediate visibility by a forest-dwelling ungulate species.
Journal of animal ecology. Advance online publication.
https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13847
Yu, H.
, Wang, T.
, Skidmore, A. K., Heurich, M., & Bässler, C. (2022).
50 Years of cumulative open-source data confirm stable and robust biodiversity distribution patterns for macrofungi.
Journal of Fungi,
8(9), 1-16. Article 981. Advance online publication.
https://doi.org/10.3390/jof8090981
Skidmore, A. K.
, Siegenthaler, A.
, Wang, T.
, Darvishzadeh, R., Zhu, X., Chariton, A., & Arjen De Groot, G. (2022).
Mapping the relative abundance of soil microbiome biodiversity from eDNA and remote sensing.
Science of Remote Sensing,
6, Article 100065. Advance online publication.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.srs.2022.100065
Zhang, Y-W.
, Wang, T., Guo, Y.
, Skidmore, A. K., Zhang, Z., Tang, R., Song, S., & Tang, Z. (2022).
Estimating community-level plant functional traits in a species-rich alpine meadow using UAV image spectroscopy.
Remote sensing,
14(14), 1-14. Article 3399. Advance online publication.
https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14143399
Duporge, I., Finerty, G. E., Ihwagi, F., Lee, S., Wathika, J.
, Wu, Z., Macdonald, D. W.
, & Wang, T. (2022).
A satellite perspective on the movement decisions of African elephants in relation to nomadic pastoralists.
Remote sensing in ecology and conservation,
8(6), 841-854. Advance online publication.
https://doi.org/10.1002/rse2.285
Ma, X.
, Wang, T., Lu, L., Huang, H., Ding, J., & Zhang, F. (2022).
Developing a 3D clumping index model to improve optical measurement accuracy of crop leaf area index.
Field Crops Research,
275, 1-16. Article 108361. Advance online publication.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fcr.2021.108361
Yu, F.
, Sun, Y.
, Wang, T.
, Skidmore, A. K., Ding, C., & Ye, X. (2022).
Linking the past and present to predict the distribution of Asian crested ibis (Nipponia nippon) under global changes.
Integrative Zoology,
17(6), 1095-1105. Advance online publication.
https://doi.org/10.1111/1749-4877.12581
Skidmore, A. K., Coops, N. C.
, Neinavaz, E., Ali, A., Schaepman, M. E., Paganini, M., Kissling, W. D., Vihervaara, P.
, Darvishzadeh, R., Feilhauer, H., Fernandez, M., Fernández, N., Gorelick, N., Geijzendorffer, I., Heiden, U., Heurich, M., Hobern, D., Holzwarth, S., Muller-Karger, F. E., ... Wingate, V. (2021).
Author Correction: Priority list of biodiversity metrics to observe from space (Nature Ecology & Evolution, (2021), 5, 7, (896-906), 10.1038/s41559-021-01451-x).
Nature Ecology & Evolution,
5(7), 1046.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01492-2
Skidmore, A. K., Coops, N. C.
, Neinavaz, E., Ali, A., Schaepman, M. E., Paganini, M., Kissling, W. D., Vihervaara, P.
, Darvishzadeh, R., Feilhauer, H., Fernandez, M., Fernández, N., Gorelick, N., Geijzendorffer, I., Heiden, U., Heurich, M., Hobern, D., Holzwarth, S., Muller-Karger, F. E., ... Wingate, V. (2021).
Author Correction: Priority list of biodiversity metrics to observe from space (Nature Ecology & Evolution, (2021), 5, 7, (896-906), 10.1038/s41559-021-01451-x).
Nature Ecology & Evolution,
5(12), 1639. Advance online publication.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01527-8,
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01595-w
Yu, F., Gara, T., Lian, J., Ye, W., Shen, J.
, Wang, T., Wu, Z., & Wang, J. (2021).
Understanding the impact of vertical canopy position on leaf spectra and traits in an evergreen broadleaved forest.
Remote sensing,
13(24), Article 5057.
https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13245057
Wan, P., Shao, J., Jin, S.
, Wang, T., Yang, S., Yan, G., & Zhang, W. (2021).
A novel and efficient method for wood–leaf separation from terrestrial laser scanning point clouds at the forest plot level.
Methods in ecology and evolution,
12(12), 2473-2486. Advance online publication.
https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13715
Zong, X.
, Wang, T.
, Skidmore, A. K., & Heurich, M. (2021).
Estimating fine-scale visibility in a temperate forest landscape using airborne laser scanning.
International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation,
103, 1-11. Article 102478. Advance online publication.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2021.102478
Liu, J.
, Li, L., Akerblom, M.
, Wang, T.
, Skidmore, A.
, Zhu, X., & Heurich, M. (2021).
Comparative evaluation of algorithms for leaf area index estimation from digital hemispherical photography through virtual forests.
Remote sensing,
13(16), Article 3325.
https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13163325
Yu, H.
, Wang, T.
, Skidmore, A., Heurich, M., & Bässler, C. (2021).
The critical role of tree species and human disturbance in determining the macrofungal diversity in Europe.
Global ecology and biogeography,
30(10), 2084-2100. Advance online publication.
https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13372
Duporge, I., Spiegel, M. P., Thomson, E. R., Chapman, T., Lamberth, C., Pond, C., Macdonald, D. W.
, Wang, T., & Klinck, H. (2021).
Determination of optimal flight altitude to minimise acoustic drone disturbance to wildlife using species audiograms.
Methods in ecology and evolution,
12(11), 2196-2207. Advance online publication.
https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13691
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University of Twente
Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation
Langezijds
(building no. 19), room 1128
Hallenweg 8
7522NH Enschede
The Netherlands
University of Twente
Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation
Langezijds
(building no. 19), room 1128
Hallenweg 8
7522NH Enschede
The Netherlands
Mailing Address
University of Twente
Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation
Langezijds
1128
P.O. Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
The Netherlands
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https://research.utwente.nl/en/persons/tiejun-wang