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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?

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Tzu-Hsin Karen Chen, PhD (she/her/they/them)
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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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