Publications

Peer-reviewed journal articles
In the list below, underline designates UT graduate student or postdoc author.

Lee, H., Staniewicz, S., Chen, J., Hennings, P., and Olson, J. (2023). Subsurface deformation monitoring with InSAR and elastic inversion modeling in West Texas. Geoenergy Science and Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoen.2023.212299.

Hennings, P, Staniewicz, S., Smye K., Chen, J., Horne, E., Nicot, J.-P., Ge, J., Reedy, R., Scanlon, B. (2023). Development of complex patterns of anthropogenic uplift and subsidence in the Delaware Basin of West Texas and southeast New Mexico, USA. Science of the Total Environment. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.166367.

Zebker, M., Chen, and M. Hesse, (2023). Robust Surface Deformation and Tropospheric Noise Characterization from Common-Reference Interferogram Subsets, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2023.3288019.

Wang, K., and Chen, J. (2022). Accurate persistent scatterer identification based on phase similarity of radar pixels, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 60, pp. 1-13, 2022, Art no. 5118513. https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2022.3210868.

Pogorelsky, B., Zanetti, R., Chen, J., Jenkins, S., (2022). Synthetic Aperture Radar Based Spacecraft Terrain Relative Navigation, Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, 2022 59:5, 1412-1424, https://doi.org/10.2514/1.A35067.

Horne, E., Hennings, P., Smye, Katie, Staniewicz, S., Chen, J., and Savvaidis, A. (2022). Structural Characteristics of Shallow Faults in the Delaware Basin, Interpretation, volume 10, issue 4,  https://doi.org/10.1190/int-2022-0005.1.

Alghamdi, A., Hesse, M. A., Chen, J., Villa, U., & Ghattas, O. (2021). Bayesian Poroelastic Aquifer Characterization from InSAR Surface Deformation Data. Part II: Quantifying the Uncertainty. Water Resources Research, 57, e2021WR029775. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021WR029775

Smith, R., Hashemi, H., Chen, J., Knight, R. (2021). Apportioning deformation among depth intervals in an aquifer system using InSAR and head data. Hydrogeology Journal. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10040-021-02386-0.

Wang, K., Chen, J., Kiaghadi, A., and Dawson, C. (2021). A new algorithm for land-cover classification using PolSAR and InSAR data and its application to surface roughness mapping along the Gulf Coast. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2021.3083492.

Michaelides, R. Chen, R., Zhao, Y. Schaefer, K., Parsekian, A., Sullivan, T., Moghaddam, M., Zebker, H. A., Liu, L., Xu, X., Chen, J. (2021). Permafrost Dynamics Observatory (PDO) – Part I: Postprocessing and Calibration Methods of UAVSAR L-band InSAR Data for Seasonal Subsidence Estimation. Earth and Space Science, 8, e2020EA001630. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020EA001630

Clayton, L., Schaefer, K., Battaglia, M., Bourgeau-Chavez, L., Chen, J., Chen, R., Chen, A., Dogaheh, K., Grelik, S., Jafarov, E., Liu, L., Ludwig, S., Michaelides, R., Moghaddam, M., Parsekian, A., Rocha, A., Schaefer, S., Sullivan, T., Tabatabaeenejad, A., Wang, K., Wilson, C., Zebker, H. A., Zhang, T., Zhao, Y. (2021). Active Layer Thickness as a Function of Soil Water Content, Environmental Research Letters, 16, 055028, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abfa4c.

Staniewicz, S., Chen, J., Lee, H., Olson, J., Savvaidis, A., Reedy, R., Breton, C, Rathje, E., and Hennings, P. (2020). InSAR reveals complex surface deformation patterns over an 80,000 km2 oil‐producing region in the Permian Basin, Geophysical Research Letters, 47, e2020GL090151. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL090151

Chen, J., Wu, Y., O’Connor, M., Cardenas, M. B., Schaefer, K., Michaelides, R., and Kling, G. (2020). Active layer freeze-thaw and water storage dynamics in permafrost environments inferred from InSAR, Remote Sensing of Environment, Volume 248, 112007, ISSN 0034-4257, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2020.112007.

Alghamdi, A., Hesse, M. A., Chen, J., and Ghattas, O. (2020). Bayesian Poroelastic Aquifer Characterization from InSAR Surface Deformation Data. Part I: Maximum A Posteriori Estimate, Water Resources Research, 56, e2020WR027391. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020WR027391.

O’Connor, M. T., Cardenas, M. B., Ferencz, S. B., Wu, Y., Neilson, B. T., Chen, J., and Kling, G. W. (2020). Empirical models for predicting water and heat flow properties of permafrost soils, Geophysical Research Letters, 47, e2020GL087646. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL087646.

Michaelides, R. J., Schaefer K., Zebker H. A., Parsekian A., Liu L., Chen J., Natali S., Ludwig S., and Schaefer S. R. (2019). Inference of the impact of wildfire on permafrost and active layer thickness in a discontinuous permafrost region using the remotely sensed active layer thickness (ReSALT) algorithm, Environmental Research Letters, Volume 14, Issue 3, 035007. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aaf932

Chen, J., Knight, R., and Zebker, H. A. (2017). The temporal and spatial variability of the confined aquifer head and storage properties in the San Luis Valley, Colorado Inferred from multiple InSAR missions, Water Resources Research, 53, 9708– 9720. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017WR020881.

Smith, R. G., Knight, R., Chen, J., Reeves, J. A., Zebker, H. A., Farr, T., and Liu, Z. (2017). Estimating the permanent loss of groundwater storage in the southern San Joaquin Valley, California, Water Resour. Res., 53, 2133–2148,https://doi.org/10.1002/2016WR019861.

Chen, J., Knight, R., Zebker, H. A., and Schreuder, W. A. (2016). Confined aquifer head measurements and storage properties in the San Luis Valley, Colorado, from spaceborne InSAR observations, Water Resour. Res., 52, 3623–3636, https://doi.org/10.1002/2015WR018466.

Chen, J., Zebker, H. A., and Knight, R. (2015). A persistent scatterer interpolation for retrieving accurate ground deformation over InSAR-decorrelated agricultural fields, Geophys. Res. Lett., 42, 9294–9301, https://doi:10.1002/2015GL065031.

Chen, J., Zebker, H. A., Segall, P., and Miklius, A. (2014). The 2010 slow slip event and secular motion at Kilauea, Hawaii, inferred from TerraSAR-X InSAR data, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 119, 6667–6683, https://doi.org/10.1002/2014JB011156.

Chen J., and Zebker, H. A. (2011). Ionospheric Artifacts in Simultaneous L-Band InSAR and GPS Observations, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 50, no. 4, pp. 1227-1239, 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2164805.