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How do urban landscapes affect physical and mental health?
How do varying forms of urban development cause environmental degradation and, in turn, put human health and life at risk?
Research: Welcome
I am an interdisciplinary data scientist and geographer interested in urbanization, changing landscape, and impacts on human health. I developed remote sensing approaches combined machine learning in order to characterize forms of cities not only at large scales but also a spatial explicit resolution close to people's living environment (e.g., type of housing at walking distance around home) to understand health disparities.
Chen, T.H.K., Horsdal, T.H., Samuelsson, K., Closter, A.M., Davies, M., Barthel, S., Pedersen, C.B., Prishchepov, A.V., and Sabel, C.E. (2023) Higher depression risks in medium- than high-density urban form across Denmark. Science Advances, 9 (21). https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adf3760
Chen, T.H.K., Kincey, M.E., Rosser, N.J., Seto, K.C. (2024) Identifying recurrent and persistent landslides using satellite imagery and deep learning: a 30-year analysis of the Himalaya. Science of the Total Environment. In press. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.171161
Chen, T.H.K., Pandey, B., Seto, K.C. (2023) Detecting subpixel human settlements in mountains using deep learning: A case of the Hindu Kush Himalaya 1990-2020. Remote Sensing of Environment. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2023.113625
Chen, T.H.K. and Seto, K.C. (2022) Gender and authorship patterns in urban land science. Journal of Land Use Science. https://doi.org/10.1080/1747423X.2021.2018515
Rusk, J., Maharjan, A., Tiwari, P., Chen, T.H.K., Shneiderman, S., Turin, M., and Seto, K. C. (2022) Multi-hazard susceptibility and exposure assessment of the Hindu Kush Himalaya. Science of the Total Environment, 804, 150039.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150039
Chen, T. H. K., Qiu, C., Schmitt, M., Zhu, X. X., Sabel, C. E., & Prishchepov, A. V. (2020). Mapping horizontal and vertical urban densification in Denmark with Landsat time-series from 1985 to 2018: A semantic segmentation solution. Remote Sensing of Environment, 251, 112096. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2020.112096
Chen, T.H.K., Prishchepov, A., Fensholt, R., and Sabel, C. (2019) Detecting and monitoring long-term landslides in urbanized areas with nighttime light data and multi-seasonal Landsat imagery across Taiwan from 1998 to 2017. Remote Sensing of Environment, 225, 317-327. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2019.03.013
Chen, T.H.K., Wen, T.H., and Chen V.Y.J. (2018) Revisiting the role of rainfall variability and its interactive effects with the built environment in urban dengue outbreaks. Applied Geography, 101, 14-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2019.1596063
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