General

Dr. Zhengjia Liu, Associate Professor in Agriculture Geography and Land Use. 

Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research (IGSNRR), Chinese Academy of Sciences

No.11A, Datun Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, China
Email: liuzj@igsnrr.ac.cn


Research Interests

His research interests are land system modeling, agricultural sustainability, and climate change adaptations by integrating rural householder surveys, field & remote sensing observations, data/knowledge-driven process models. He aims to provide valuable help on rural householders and areal developments.

Experience

2018-present: Associate Professor, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research (IGSNRR), Chinese Academy of Sciences

2017-2018: Assistant Professor, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research (IGSNRR), Chinese Academy of Sciences

2015-2017: Post-Doctoral Research Associate, State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences


Publications

(1) Patterns and causes of winter wheat and summer maize rotation area change over the North China Plain. Environmental Research Letters, 2022, first author, data sharing:https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Winter_wheat_and_summer_maize_datasets_over_the_North_China_Plain_in_2000-2019/19228224
(2) Evaluating potential impacts of land use changes on water supply-demand under multiple development scenarios in dryland region. Journal of Hydrology, 2022, corresponding author
(3) Understanding impacts of cropland pattern dynamics on grain production in China: An integrated analysis by fusing statistical data and satellite-observed data. Journal of Environmental Management, 2022, corresponding author
(4) A global analysis of agricultural productivity and water resource consumption changes over cropland expansion regions. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment,2021,first author
(5) Understanding the impacts of 'Grain for Green' land management practice on land greening dynamics over the Loess Plateau of China. Land Use Policy, 2020, first author
(6) Extended warm temperate zone and opportunities for cropping system change in the Loess Plateau of China, International Journal of Climatology, 2019, first author
(7) Anthropogenic contributions dominate trends of vegetation cover change over the farming-pastoral ecotone of northern China, Ecological Indicators, 2018, first author
(8) Detecting changes of wheat vegetative growth and their response to climate change over the North China Plain. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 2018, first author
(9) Understanding long-term (1982-2013) patterns and trends in winter wheat spring green-up date over the North China Plain. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 2017,  corresponding author
(10) Spring green-up date derived from GIMMS3g and SPOT-VGT NDVI of winter wheat cropland in the North China Plain. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 2017, first author

Professional Skills

Mapping: ArcGIS, ENVI, Photoshop, Google Earth Engine

Programing: Matlab, ArcPy, IDL, C/C++, Fortran