• Coastal vulnerability database for all Australian addresses
• Quantifying at-risk addresses for all states and coastal Local Government Areas (*)
• High-resolution estimates of Australia’s coastal population with validations of global population, shoreline and elevation datasets (Paper, *)

Bushfire risk

• Bushfire risk rating database for all Australian addresses
• How many bushfire-prone addresses are there in Australia? (*)
• Quantifying bushfire penetration into urban areas in Australia: Historical damage suburbs under investigation include Como-Jannali (the 1994 Sydney bushfires), Duffy (the 2003 Canberra bushfires), and Marysville and Kinglake (the 2009 "Black Saturday" bushfires in Victoria). (Paper, *)

Contemporary risk assessment for natural hazards

• Decision support tools for managing rising disaster risk: A survey (PDF, 3.7 Mb)
• Catastrophe modelling and its major overseas developers

• Motivation of the study (PDF, 78 Kb)

• Framework (Hazard, exposure, vulnerability and loss analysis) (PDF, 108 Kb)
• Defining area at risk and its effect in catastrophe loss estimation: A dasymetric mapping approach (the approach that improves loss estimation of CAT models including QuakeAUS, HailAUS and HAZUS).

• Framework (Data integration, risk assessment tasks and risk decision-making)
• Linking remotely sensed images and areal census data
• Spatial analysis units (or spatial units of analysis) in risk assessment
• Multicriteria evaluation (MCE) – GIS typology for spatial risk decision support

• Identifying the characteristic scale of scene variation in fine spatial resolution imagery: A wavelet transform approach
• Areal interpolation / Modifiable areal unit problem (MAUP): A geostatistical variogram approach
  
  Chen, K., 2003. Scale analysis for remotely sensed images and areal census data: Stressing objects. Proceedings of the 30th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment (CD-ROM) – Information for Risk Management and Sustainable Development, 10-14 November 2003, Honolulu, Hawaii, 4 p. (PDF, 134 Kb)

Spatial scaling (up- and down-scaling) of physical and socioeconomic attributes for global environmental change studies

Chen, K., 2009. Quantifying environmental attributes from Earth Observation data products by spatial upscaling: Three case studies. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Earth Observation for Global Changes (CD-ROM), Pages 1600-1610, 25-29 May 2009, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China. (PDF, 1.84 Mb)

• Chen, K., 2009. Quantifying environmental attributes from Earth Observation data products by spatial upscaling: Three case studies. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Earth Observation for Global Changes (CD-ROM), Pages 1600-1610, 25-29 May 2009, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China. [Conference field trip to the damage sites of the 12 May 2008 Sichuan Earthquakes: Photos]

• Chen, K., 2005. Decision support tools for managing rising disaster risk: A survey. The 5^th Annual IIASA-DPRI Forum on Integrated Disaster Risk Management: Innovations in Science and Policy, 14-18 September 2005, Beijing, China.  (PDF, 3.7 Mb)

• Chen, K., 2004. Catastrophe modelling and its major overseas developers. Journal of Natural Disasters (A Chinese Journal), 13(2), 1-8.  (PDF, 205 Kb)

• Chen, K., Blong, R., Hunter, L., Andrews, K., and Siciliano, F., 2002. PerilAUS relative risk ratings in natural hazards, Australia. Proceedings of Geoinformatics’ 2002 (CD-ROM) – GIS and Remote Sensing for Global Change Studies and Sustainable Development, 1-3 June 2002, Nanjing, China, 10 pages.