My primary research interest is in geographic information management, visualization, analysis. More specifically, my research focuses on developing computational methods and tools for hydrological modeling and water resources management.

Current research involves developing analysis frameworks for spatio-temporal hydro-meteorological datasets, calibrating water quality models in the Midwest agriculture watersheds, and estimating snowmelt runoff in mountain watersheds in western China.

Current projects:
NSF C-CHANGE IGERT
NSF Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS)
Sea level rise effects on coastal ecosystem distributions and biodiversity status in the U.S. Middle Atlantic Region, http://www.tulane.edu/~NICCR/projects.html

Geog. 958: GIS Seminar

French, K. and X. Li (in press) Feature-based cartographic modeling, International Journal of Geographic Information Science.

Li, X., R. J. Rowley, J. C. Kostelnick, D. Braaten, and J. Meisel (in press) GIS analysis of global inundation impacts from sea level rise. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing.

Li, X. and M. Williams (2008) Snowmelt runoff modeling in an arid mountain watershed, Tarim Basin, China. Hydrological Processes.

Legra, L., X. Li, and T. A. Peterson. (2008) Biodiversity consequences of sea level rise in New Guinea. Pacific Conservation Biology.

Rowley, R.J., J. C. Kostelnick, D. Braaten, X. Li, and D. Meisel (2007) Estimating Population and Land Area at Risk from Sea Level Rise. EOS, 88(9): 105-107.

Li, X., C. Larson, and A. Rex (2005) Creating buffers on surfaces. Cartography and Geographical Information Science, 32(3): 195-210

Li, X., M. Harman, and S. Wang (2005) Improving lake/reservoir water quality modeling using an environmental model and GIS. GIScience & Remote Sensing, 42(4): 320-332

Li, X. (2005). Deriving directional variance from covariance matrix. Transactions in GIS. 9(3):443-445

Li, X. and M. Hodgson (2004) Vector field data model and operations. GIScience and Remote Sensing,  41(1): 1-24

Hodgson, M., X. Li, and Y. Chen (2004) A parameterization model for transportation feature extraction. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing. 70(12): 1399-1404