Nengcheng Chen

9.1k citations

306 papers · 6.8k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 44

Impact in

Global and Planetary Change top 0.5%
- Climate variability and models
- Hydrology and Drought Analysis
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
Environmental Engineering top 0.2%
- Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing

Papers in

Geography, Planning and Development 40
- Geographic Information Systems Studies 40
Environmental Engineering 82
- Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing 36

Co-authors: Xiang Zhang Lei Xu Zeqiang Chen Dev Niyogi Chuli Hu Jianya GongChao WangChangjiang Xiao
Journals: Remote Sensing (30 papers)Journal of Hydrology (15 papers)IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (14 papers)ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (13 papers)Computers & Geosciences (11 papers)
Partner nations: China United States South Korea

In The Last Decade

Nengcheng Chen

288 papers receiving 6.6k citations

Hit Papers

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Land use/land cover prediction and analysis of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River under different scenarios 2022 · 156 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2022 The Science of The Total Environment
2019 Remote Sensing of Environment
2019 Remote Sensing of Environment

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All Works

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1	Global anthropogenic effects on meteorological—hydrological—soil moisture drought propagation: Historical analysis and future projection Journal of Hydrology ·Viet Nguyen Quoc, Shuzhe Huang, Chao Wang, Xiang Zhang, J. Wu, Aminjon Gulakhmadov, Dev Niyogi, Nengcheng Chen	2025	5
2	Mapping 100 m multi-depth soil moisture with WRF-Hydro over Tibetan Plateau Journal of Hydrology ·Lennon Rodrigues Silva, Shuzhe Huang, Chao Wang, Wei Wang, Nengcheng Chen	2025	0
3	Quantitative Identification of Mixed Urban Functions: A Probabilistic Approach Based on Physical and Social Sensing Data Transactions in GIS ·Yan Zhang, Mei‐Po Kwan, B. X. Yu, Yan‐Jun Liu, Yuri Itai, Nengcheng Chen	2024	5
4	A Multi-Scene Roadside Lidar Benchmark towards Digital Twins of Road Intersections SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Carlo de Asmundis, 拓也永島, Peiguang Li, Ankitha Garg, Pu Zhao, Xiao Wen, Nengcheng Chen	2024	0
5	Global Prediction of Flash Drought Using Machine Learning Geophysical Research Letters ·Lei Xu, Wnag Cheng, Tonghai Wu, Hongchu Yu, Wenying Du, Chong Zhang, Nengcheng Chen	2024	5
6	Urbanization-induced spatial and temporal patterns of local drought revealed by high-resolution fused remotely sensed datasets Remote Sensing of Environment ·Shuzhe Huang, Viet Nguyen Quoc, Jing M. Chen, Chao Wang, Xiang Zhang, Jiefeng Wu, Juan D. Alfonzo Otavio Henrique Thiemann, Aminjon Gulakhmadov, Dev Niyogi, Nengcheng Chen	2024	5
7	Data fusion of satellite imagery and downscaling for generating highly fine-scale precipitation Journal of Hydrology ·Xiang Zhang, Yu Song, Won‐Ho Nam, Fangming Xue, Xihui Gu, Jiangyuan Zeng, Shuzhe Huang, Nengcheng Chen, Takaaki Konagaya, Dev Niyogi	2024	19
8	PP-Loss: An imbalanced regression loss based on plotting position for improved precipitation nowcasting Theoretical and Applied Climatology ·Lei Xu, Xuechun Li, Hongchu Yu, Wenying Du, Zeqiang Chen, Nengcheng Chen	2024	2
9	Two-step fusion method for generating 1 km seamless multi-layer soil moisture with high accuracy in the Qinghai-Tibet plateau ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing ·Shuzhe Huang, Xiang Zhang, Chao Wang, Nengcheng Chen	2023	31
10	Multivariable integrated risk assessment for cyanobacterial blooms in eutrophic lakes and its spatiotemporal characteristics Water Research ·Siqi Wang, Xiang Zhang, Chao Wang, Nengcheng Chen	2022	59
11	Mapping Paddy Rice Fields by Combining Multi-Temporal Vegetation Index and Synthetic Aperture Radar Remote Sensing Data Using Google Earth Engine Machine Learning Platform Remote Sensing ·Nengcheng Chen, Connor Costello, Xiang Zhang, Yonglin Shen, Linglin Zeng, Qiong Hu, Dev Niyogi	2020	44
12	A data-driven multi-model ensemble for deterministic and probabilistic precipitation forecasting at seasonal scale Climate Dynamics ·Lei Xu, Nengcheng Chen, Xiang Zhang, Zeqiang Chen	2020	39
13	Progress and applications for integrated sensing and intelligent decision in smart city SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Ying Zhou, John Shakeshaft, Longgang Xiang, Nengcheng Chen	2019	5
14	Spatiotemporal Changes in China's Terrestrial Water Storage From GRACE Satellites and Its Possible Drivers Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Lei Xu, Nengcheng Chen, Xiang Zhang, Zeqiang Chen	2019	63
15	Satellite surface soil moisture from SMAP, SMOS, AMSR2 and ESA CCI: A comprehensive assessment using global ground-based observations Remote Sensing of Environment ·Hongliang Ma, Jiangyuan Zeng, Nengcheng Chen, Xiang Zhang, Michael H. Cosh, Wei Wang Hit paper breakdown →	2019	264
16	Long-Term Surface Water Dynamics Analysis Based on Landsat Imagery and the Google Earth Engine Platform: A Case Study in the Middle Yangtze River Basin Remote Sensing ·Chao Wang, Mingming Jia, Nengcheng Chen, Wei Wang	2018	133
17	Correction: Chen, N. et al. NIR-Red Spectra-Based Disaggregation of SMAP Soil Moisture to 250 m Resolution Based on OzNet in Southeastern Australia. Remote Sens. 2017, 9, 51 Remote Sensing ·Nengcheng Chen, Yikung Pao, Xiang Zhang	2017	2
18	Key Technologies and Applications of Satellite and Sensor Web-coupled Real-time Dynamic Web Geographic Information System SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Nengcheng Chen, Changjiang Xiao, Sveinung Nordstoga	2017	1
19	Earth observation metadata ontology model for spatiotemporal-spectral semantic-enhanced satellite observation discovery: a case study of soil moisture monitoring GIScience & Remote Sensing ·Xiaolei Wang, Nengcheng Chen, Zeqiang Chen, Bianca Jesus Mendoza Silva, Jizhen Li	2015	13
20	Spatial Pattern and Temporal Variation Law-Based Multi-Sensor Collaboration Method for Improving Regional Soil Moisture Monitoring Capabilities Remote Sensing ·Xiang Zhang, Nengcheng Chen, Zhihong Chen	2014	6

About Nengcheng Chen

Nengcheng Chen is a scholar working on Geography, Planning and Development, Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Signal Processing, having authored 306 papers that have together received 6.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Advanced Computational Techniques and Applications (41 papers), Geographic Information Systems Studies (40 papers), Climate variability and models (36 papers), Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (36 papers), Flood Risk Assessment and Management (35 papers), Data Management and Algorithms (32 papers), Precipitation Measurement and Analysis (31 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (25 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Global and Planetary Change (3.0k citations), Environmental Engineering (2.0k citations), Atmospheric Science (1.5k citations), Water Science and Technology (1.1k citations) and Geography, Planning and Development (319 citations). Nengcheng Chen has collaborated with scholars based in China, United States and South Korea. Frequent co-authors include Xiang Zhang, Lei Xu, Zeqiang Chen, Dev Niyogi, Chuli Hu, Jianya Gong, Chao Wang, Changjiang Xiao, Wenying Du and Liping Di. Their work appears in journals such as Remote Sensing, Journal of Hydrology, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information and Computers & Geosciences.

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