Xue Ji received the M.S. degree in environmental sciences from The First Institute of Oceanography, MNR, Qingdao, China, in 2017, the Ph.D. degree in photogrammetry and remote sensing from the State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan, China, in 2021. She is currently an associate professor at Jilin University. Her research interests include hydrographic surveying and charting, subsea topography refinement analysis and airborne LiDAR bathymetry processing.