Nancy Chen

Dr. Nancy Chen

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Academic Career Length

7Years (2020-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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LSLichun Sui
Lichun Sui
FMFei Ma
Fei Ma
NCNancy Chen
Nancy Chen
Mining subsidence is time-dependent and highly nonlinear, especially in the Loess Plateau region in Northwestern China. As a consequence, and mainly in building agglomerations, the structures can be damaged severely during or after underground extraction, with risks to human life. In this paper, we propose an approach based on a combination of a differential interferometric synthetic aperture radar (DInSAR) technique and a support vector machine (SVM) regression algorithm optimized by grid search (GS-SVR) to predict mining subsidence in a timely and cost-efficient manner. We consider five Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS)/Phased Array type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (PALSAR) images encompassing the Dafosi coal mine area in Binxian and Changwu counties, Shaanxi Province. The results show that the subsidence predicted by the proposed InSAR and GS-SVR approach is consistent with the Global Positioning System (GPS) measurements. The maximum absolute errors are less than 3.1 cm and the maximum relative errors are less than 14%. The proposed approach combining DInSAR with GS-SVR technology can predict mining subsidence on the Loess Plateau of China with a high level of accuracy. This research may also help to provide disaster warnings.

4 September 2025 in IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
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Kyle GaoKyle Gao
Kyle Gao
DLdening lu
dening lu
LLLiangzhi Li
Liangzhi Li
NCNancy Chen
Nancy Chen
HHHongjie He
Hongjie He
Jonathan Li Jonathan Li
Jonathan Li
We propose a Digital Building Analysis (DBA), a digital system for building-scale cloud-based data integration and data analytics. By connecting to cloud mapping platforms such as Google Map Platforms APIs, by leveraging state-of-the-art multi-agent Large Language Models data analysis using ChatGPT(4o) and Deepseek-V3/R1, and by using our Gaussian Splatting-based mesh extraction pipeline, our framework can retrieve a building’s 3D model, visual descriptions, and achieve cloud-based mapping integration with large language model-based data analytics using a building’s address, postal code, or geographic coordinates, and be easily extended to perform data analysis on other cloud-based data streams.

11 March 2020 in Remote Sensing
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MZMianqing Zhong
Mianqing Zhong
LSLichun Sui
Lichun Sui
Zhihua WangZhihua Wang
Zhihua Wang
Xiaomei YangXiaomei Yang
Xiaomei Yang
CZChuanshuai Zhang
Chuanshuai Zhang
NCNancy Chen
Nancy Chen
Trajectory data are often used as important auxiliary information in preprocessing and extracting the target from mobile laser scanning data. However, the trajectory data stored independently may be lost and destroyed for various reasons, making the data unavailable for the relevant models. This study proposes recovering the trajectory of the scanner from point cloud data following the scanning principles of a rotating mirror. Two approaches are proposed from different input conditions: Ordered three-dimensional coordinates of point cloud data, with and without acquisition time. We recovered the scanner’s ground track through road point density analysis and restored the position of the center of emission of the laser based on plane reconstruction on a single scanning line. The validity and reliability of the proposed approaches were verified in the four typical urban, rural, winding, and viaduct road environments using two systems from different manufacturers. The result deviations of the ground track and scanner trajectory from their actual position were a few centimeters and less than 1 decimeter, respectively. Such an error is sufficiently small for the trajectory data to be used in the relevant algorithms.

7 October 2020 in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
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NCNancy Chen
Nancy Chen
LSLichun Sui
Lichun Sui
BZBiao Zhang
Biao Zhang
Hongjie HeHongjie He
Hongjie He
JJJosé Marcato Junior
José Marcato Junior
Jonathan Li Jonathan Li
Jonathan Li
The traditional super-resolution methods based on image patches often ignore the consistency between the overlapped patches, causing block effects in produced images. The convolutional sparse coding based super-resolution method uses the translation invariance of the convolution filter to directly encode the entire image, maintaining consistency and good performance. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to single image super-resolution reconstruction based on hybrid non-local similarity constrained convolution sparse coding. We first decompose the input image into a smooth part and a texture part. The Bayesian nonparametric model can use more prior information of the original image, so we replace the previous bicubic interpolation with this method to better reconstruct the residual high-frequency information in the smooth part. When reconstructing the texture part, this paper proposes a non-local similarity constrained convolutional sparse coding method, which transforms the reconstruction of the texture part to minimize the convolution sparse coding noise of the feature maps and classifies the image patches in the search space by using the correlation coefficients as the structural information, avoiding unnecessary weight calculation. Several methods were tested on satellite images extensively. Both visual inspection and quantitative analysis results demonstrate that our method outperforms other stateof-the-art methods and increases noise immunity effectively.

10 December 2025 in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
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SLSonghan Luan
Songhan Luan
Hongjie HeHongjie He
Hongjie He
LLLiangzhi Li
Liangzhi Li
LLLi Li
Li Li
NCNancy Chen
Nancy Chen
Jonathan Li Jonathan Li
Jonathan Li
Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery is often degraded by multiplicative speckle and limited resolution, hindering reliable interpretation. To address this, we proposed MambaR-ESRGAN, a unified restoration framework that jointly performs super-resolution and speckle noise denoising by embedding Mamba's state-space modeling into a Real-ESRGAN backbone. Central to the design are Residual-in-Residual Mamba (RRDM) blocks, which efficiently capture long-range context while preserving fine local structure, enabling accurate suppression of speckle without losing details on edges. MambaR-ESRGAN is computationally efficient and delivers consistent quality gains over strong baselines. On representative benchmarks, it improves PSNR by 9.4% (from 24.16 dB to 26.43 dB) and SSIM by 16.4% (from 0.7065 to 0.8226) compared with the original Real-ESRGAN, with qualitative results showing sharper edges and better preservation of linear features. Extensive experiments across diverse SAR datasets confirm robustness and generalizability, indicating the method's suitability for downstream applications such as flood delineation, road mapping, and ship detection.

22 October 2025 in Sensors
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NCNancy Chen
Nancy Chen
BZBiao Zhang
Biao Zhang
Hongjie HeHongjie He
Hongjie He
Kyle GaoKyle Gao
Kyle Gao
ZLZhouzhou Liu
Zhouzhou Liu
LLliangzhi li
liangzhi li
Accurate aircraft detection in remote sensing imagery is critical for aerospace surveillance, military reconnaissance, and aviation security but remains fundamentally challenged by extreme scale variations, arbitrary orientations, and dense spatial clustering in high-resolution scenes. This paper presents an adaptive attention-guided super-resolution network that integrates multi-scale feature learning with saliency-aware processing to address these challenges. Our architecture introduces three key innovations: (1) A hierarchical coarse-to-fine detection pipeline that first identifies potential regions in downsampled imagery before applying precision refinement, (2) A saliency-aware tile selection module employing learnable attention tokens to dynamically localize aircraft-dense regions without manual thresholds, and (3) A local tile refinement network combining transformer-based super-resolution for target regions with efficient upsampling for background areas. Extensive experiments on DIOR and FAIR1M benchmarks demonstrate state-of-the-art performance, achieving 93.1% AP50 (DIOR) and 83.2% AP50 (FAIR1M), significantly outperforming existing super-resolution-enhanced detectors. The proposed framework offers an adaptive sensing solution for satellite-based aircraft detection, effectively mitigating scale variations and background clutter in real-world operational environments.