Dr Yongzhe CHEN

Education:

Yongzhe Chen received his bachelor's degree from Nanjing University in 2016, and then received his PhD degree from Research Center for Eco-environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2022.

Research Interest:

Dr Chen mainly worked on ecological and hydrological remote sensing. By integrating multi-source remote sensing data or incorporating remote sensing data into physical or semi-empirical models, he has produced spatiotemporally-continuous estimates of cropland evapotranspiration, irrigation water consumption, surface soil moisture, reservoir inundated area and water storage, vegetation gross and net primary production, forest above- and belowground biomass carbon at global or national scales. The relevant papers have been published in distinguished journals including Global Change Biology, Earth System Science Data, Water Resources Research.

Working as a postdoctoral researcher in JC STEM Lab of Quantitative Remote Sensing, Dr Chen now focuses on continental-scale paddy rice mapping and simulation of greenhouse gas emission.

Publications:

• Chen, Y., Cui, Y., Zhang, C. (2024). Spatiotemporal co-evolution of vegetation and hydrologic components under a changing environment in the Inner Mongolia section of the Yellow River. Water Resources Protection.

• Chen, Y., Wang, Y., Li, L., et al. (2024). Monthly Monitoring of Inundated Areas and Water Storage Dynamics in China's Large Reservoirs Using Multisource Remote Sensing. Water Resources Research, 60(8), e2023WR036450.

• Chen, Y., Feng, X., Fu, B., et al. (2023). Maps with 1 km resolution reveal increases in above- and belowground forest biomass carbon pools in China over the past 20 years. Earth System Science Data, 15, 897-910

• Chen, Y., Feng, X., & Fu, B. (2021). An improved global remote-sensing-based surface soil moisture (RSSSM) dataset covering 2003–2018. Earth System Science Data, 13(1), 1-31.

• Chen, Y., Feng, X., Tian, H., et al. (2021). Accelerated increase in vegetation carbon sequestration in China after 2010: A turning point resulting from climate and human interaction. Global Change Biology, 27(22), 5848-5864.

• Chen, Y., Feng, X., Fu, B., et al. (2021). Improved global maps of the optimum growth temperature, maximum light use efficiency, and gross primary production for vegetation. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 126(4), e2020JG005651.

• Chen, Y., Feng, X., Fu, B., et al. (2019). Recent global cropland water consumption constrained by observations. Water Resources Research, 55(5), 3708-3738.

• Chen, Y., Fu, B. & Feng, X. (2017). Overview and outlook of remote sensing inversion of vegetation nitrogen content. Acta Ecologica Sinica, 37(18):6240-6252

• Zhang, W., Chen, Y., Ji, Q., et al. (2024). Assessing global drinking water potential from electricity-free solar water evaporation device. Nature Communications, 15, 6784

• Feng, X., Chen, Y., Wei, F., et al. (2024). Dryland Social-Ecological Systems in Australia. In Dryland Social-Ecological Systems in Changing Environments (pp. 359-389). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-9375-8_11

• Li, T., Chen, Y., Han, L., et al. (2021). Shortened duration and reduced area of frozen soil in the Northern Hemisphere. The Innovation, 2(3), 100146, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xinn.2021.100146

• Shi, W., Chen, Y., & Feng, X. (2020). Identifying the terrestrial carbon benefits from ecosystem restoration in ecologically fragile regions. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 296, 106889

• Huang, Y., Song X., Wang Y., ..., Chen, Y., .... (2024). Size, distribution, and vulnerability of the global soil inorganic carbon. Science, 384, 233-239, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adi7918.