Yajing YAN

Senior Lecturer, HdR

Contact us:

E-mail: yajing.yan@univ-smb.fr

Telephone: +33(0) 4 50 09 65 36

Office: A206

Address: LISTIC, 5 chemin de bellevue, Annecy-le-Vieux, CS 80439, 74944 Annecy Cedex, France

Research topics:

Group: Remote sensing

  • Multi-temporal SAR interferometry
  • Data fusion and assimilation (ocean, volcano, glacier, etc.)
  • Statistical methods for time series analysis and interpolation
  • Machine Learning

Teaching at Polytech Annecy-Chambéry:

  • Algorithms
  • Database
  • Embedded systems
  • Signal and image processing
  • Problem and Project Based Learning (PBL) - Imaging for the Environment (IE)

Research projects:

  • CNES MagmaTrack project (2021 - 2023)
  • ANR JCJC REPED-SARIX project (2021-2025) (https://reped-sarix.univ-smb.fr/)
  • MIAI project (06/2020 - 06/2021)
  • PNTS project (2019 - 2020)
  • ANR MARGARITA project (2018 - 2021)
  • USMB SIRGA project (2019 - 2020)
  • CNES TOSCA AssimSAR project (2018 - 2019)
  • International Dragon-4 project (2016 - 2020)
  • EUMETSAT/CNES OSTST project (2016 - 2020)
  • LEFE-GMMC project (2014 - 2016)
  • European SANGOMA project (2012 - 2015)
  • ANR EFIDIR project (2008 - 2012)

Thesis:

  • Dana El Hajjar, Recursive learning of incomplete SAR displacement time series for Earth deformation observation , 01/12/2022 -
  • Lorenzo Lopez-Uroz, Physical model inversion and natural hazard prediction with neural networks from SAR displacement time series, 01/10/2022 -
  • Léa Zuccali, Assimilation of geodetic data for real-time management of natural hazards, 01/10/2022 -
  • Phan Viet-Hoa Vu, Statistical learning for earth deformation monitoring with InSAR, 01/10/2020 - 14/12/2023
  • Suvrat Kaushik, Glacio-nival cover & hanging glacier, 01/11/2019 - 27/01/2023
  • Laurane Charrier, Multi-sensor/multi-temporal remote sensing image fusion for glacier and landslide monitoring, 01/10/2019 - 24/11/2022
  • Alexandre Hippert-Ferrer, reconstruction of missing data in time series of remote sensing displacement measurements, 01/10/2017 - 16/10/2020
  • Matthias Jauvin, Measurement of surface deformations by satellite radar imagery: Application to the monitoring of mountain territories and the impact of large construction sites, 01/10/2015 - 18/12/2019
  • Mary Grace Bato, Towards deformation data assimilation in volcanology, 02/01/2015 - 02/07/2018. CNFGG thesis prize 2019.

Organizing committee:

  • Scientific Committee G2 "Geodesy, Geophysics and Mountains" (8-10/11 2022)
  • IGARSS Multi-temporal Analysis Sessions Technical Committee (since 2020)
  • ISIS GDR Thematic Days "Statistical learning with missing value" (07/12/2021), "Poorly supervised approaches to remote sensing" (30/01/2023), "Remote sensing & Climate" (07/12/2023)
  • Multitemp 2015 (07/22/2015 - 07/24/2015)
  • The 47th international Liège Colloquium (04/05/2015 - 08/05/2015)
  • International Spring School in Les Houches (02/05/2011 - 06/05/2011)
  • Seminar in Aussois (01/04/2010 - 02/04/2010)

Duties / Responsibilities:

  • Head of " Electrical and computer engineering " Specialty (09/2023 - )
  • Head of the APP project "Imagerie dronoportée et Télédétection" (09/2016 - )
  • Responsible for semester 7 of the IAI specialization at Polytech Annecy-Chambéry (09/2018 - 08/2020)
  • Responsible for year 4 of the SNI specialization at Polytech Annecy-Chambéry (09/2020 - 08/2023)
  • Member of the Advisory Board 61 USMB (2016 - )
  • Associate editor of a special issue of the journal "Ocean Dynamics" (09/2015 - 02/2017)
  • Editor of the book "Inversion & Assimilation of remotely sensed data".
  • Co-facilitator of the "Remote Sensing & AI" action of Theme B "Image & Vision" of the ISIS GdR (06/2021 – 12/2023)
  • Member of the MSTIC cluster council at Grenoble Alpes University (09/2021 - )
  • Appointed member of CNU61 (11/2023 - )

Career path:

  • 09/2014 - today: Senior Lecturer, LISTIC, Université Savoie Mont Blanc
  • 07/2012 - 08/2014: Post-doctoral fellow, GHER, University of Liège, Belgium
  • 01/2012 - 06/2012: Post-doctoral fellow, IETR, University of Rennes 1
  • 10/2008 - 12/2011: PhD student, LISTIC, Université Savoie Mont Blanc
  • 09/2007 - 06/2008: Master, Physical Method in Remote Sensing, University of Paris 6

Publications:

referenced in HAL

  • 2024
    • Lopez-Uroz L., Yan Y., Benoit A., Rabatel A., Giffard-Roisin S., Lin-Kwong-Chon C., Using Deep Learning for Glacier Thickness Estimation at a Regional Scale, IEEE Geosciences & Remote Sensing Letters, 2024, vol. 21, pp.1-5, doi: 10.1109/LGRS.2024.3353575.
  • 2023
    • P.V.H. Vu, A. Breloy, F. Brigui, Y. Yan, G. Ginolhac, Robust phase linking in InSAR, IEEE Transactions on Geosciences & Remote Sensing, vol. 61, pp. 1-11, doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2023.3289338
    • M.G. Bato, V. Pinel, Y. Yan, Assimilation de données ensembliste en volcanologie, in "Inversion et assimilation de données de télédétection", ISBN: 9781789481426
  • 2022 
    • L. Charrier, Y. Yan, E. Colin, S. Leinss, E. Trouvé, Extraction of velocity time series with an optimal temporal sampling from displacement observation networks, IEEE Transactions on Geosciences & Remote Sensing, vol. 60, pp. 1-10, doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2021.3128289
    • S. Kaushik, B. Cerino, E. Trouvé, F. Karbou, Y. Yan, et al. Analysis of the Temporal Evolution of Ice Aprons in the Mont-Blanc Massif Using X and C-Band SAR Images. Frontiers in Remote Sensing, Frontiers Media, 2022, 3,⟨10.3389/frsen.2022.930021⟩
    • S. Giffard-Roisin, S.E. Boudaour, M.P. Doin, Y. Yan, A. Atto, Land cover classification of the Alps from InSAR temporal coherence matrices, Front. Remote Sens. 28 September 2022, Sec. Remote Sensing Time Series Analysis, https://doi.org/10.3389/frsen.2022.932491
    • S. Leinss, S. Li, Y. Yan, B. Altena. SAR Offset Tracking. Surface Displacement Measurement from Remote Sensing Images, Wiley, 2022, ⟨10.1002/9781119986843.ch3⟩
    • S. Kaushik, L. Ravanel, F. Magnin, Y. Yan, E. Trouvé, and D. Cusicanqui, Effects of topographic and meteorological parameters on the surface area loss of ice aprons in the Mont Blanc massif (European Alps), 2022, The Cryosphere, 16, 4251-4271,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-4251-2022.
  • 2021
    • Y. Yan, Towards operational monitoring of Earth deformation and prediction of natural hazards, HdR report, https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-03413923/
  • 2020
    • A. Hippert-Ferrer, Y. Yan, P. Bolon. EM-EOF: Gap - Filling in Incomplete SAR Displacement Time Series, IEEE Transactions on Geosciences & Remote Sensing, vol.59, no.7, pp.5794 - 5811, doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2020.3015087
    • A. Hippert-Ferrer, Y. Yan, P. Bolon. Spatiotempporal Filling of Missing Data in Remotely Sensed Displacement Measurement Time Series, IEEE Geosciences & Remote Sensing Letters, vol.18, no.12, pp. 2157 - 2161, doi: 10.1109/LGRS.2020.3015149
  • 2019 
    • R. Prébet, Y. Yan, M. Jauvin, E. Trouvé. A Data-Adaptive EOF-Based Method for Displacement Signal Retrieval From InSAR Displacement Measurement Time Series for Decorrelating Targets. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2019, 57(8), pp.5829-5852. <10.1109/TGRS.2019.2902719>
    • M. Jauvin, Y. Yan, E. Trouvé, B. Fruneau, M. Gay, B. Girard. Integration of Corner Reflectors for the Monitoring of Mountain Glacier Areas with Sentinel-1 Time Series. Remote Sensing, MDPI, 11(8), 988, https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11080988
    • R. Fallourd, A. Dehecq, M. Jauvin, Y. Yan, G. Vasile, et al. Monitoring mountain glaciers with satellite radar imagery. Revue Française de Photogrammétrie et de Télédétection, Société Française de Photogrammétrie et de Télédétection, 2019, pp.91-105
  •  2018
    • Bato M.-G., Pinel V., Yan Y., Jouanne F., Vandemeulebrouck J., Possible deep connection between volcanic systems evidenced by sequential assimilation of geodetic data, Scientific Reports, Nature Publishing Group, 2018, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-29811-x
  • 2017
    • Bato M.-G., Pinel V., Yan Y., "Assimilation of Deformation Data for Eruption Forecasting: Potentiality Assessment Based on Synthetic Cases", Frontiers in Earth Science, Frontiers Media, 2017, doi: 10.3389/feart.2017.00048
    • Yan Y., Barth A., Beckers J.-M., Brankart J.-M., Brasseur P., Candille G., "Comparison of different incremental analysis update schemes in a realistic assimilation system with Ensemble Kalman Filter", Ocean Modelling, Elsevier, 2017, 115, pp.27-41. 〈10.1016/j.ocemod.2017.05.002〉
  • 2016
    • Barth A., Yan Y., Alvera-Azcárate A., Beckers J.-M., "Local ensemble assimilation scheme with global constraints and conservation", Ocean Dynamics, Springer Verlag, 2016, 66 (12), pp. 1651-1664
    • Yan Y., Dehecq A., Trouvé E., Mauris G., Gourmelen N., Vernier F., "Fusion of Remotely Sensed Displacement Measurements: Current status and challenges", IEEE geoscience and remote sensing magazine, IEEE, 2016, 4 (1), pp.6-25. 〈10.1109/MGRS.2016.2516278〉
  • 2015
    • Yan Y., Barth A., Beckers J.-M., Candille G., Brankart J.-M., Brasseur P., "Ensemble assimilation of ARGO temperature profile, sea surface temperature, and altimetric satellite data into an eddy permitting primitive equation model of the North Atlantic Ocean", Journal of Geophysical Research. Oceans, Wiley-Blackwell, 2015, pp.vol. 120. 〈10.1002/2014JC010349〉
  • 2014
    • Yan Y., Pinel V., Vernier F., Trouvé E., « Displacement measurements », Florence Tupin, Jordi Inglada, Jean-Marie Nicolas Eds. Remote Sensing Imagery, ISTE – John Wiley & Sons, pp. 251-282, 2014, Digital and image processing series, <ISBN : 978-1-84821-508-5>
    • Yan Y., Pinel V., Vernier F., Trouvé E., " Mesures de déplacement ", Florence Tupin, Jean-Marie Nicolas, Jordi Inglada Eds. Imagerie de télédétection, Hermes Science - Lavoisier, pp. 269-301, 2014, Traité IC2, série Signal et image
    • Yan Y., Barth A., Beckers J.M. Comparison of different assimilation schemes in a sequential Kalman filter assimilation system. Ocean Modelling, Vol. 73, pp. 123-137, 2014
  • 2013
    • Yan Y., Pinel V., Trouvé E., Pathier E., Perrain J., Bascou P., Jouanne F. Coseismic slip distribution of the 2005 Kashmir earthquake from SAR amplitude image correlation and differential interferometry. Geophysical Journal International, Vol. 193, No. 1, pp. 29-46, 2013. DOI :10.1093/gji/ggs102.
  • 2012
    • Yan Y., Trouvé E., Pinel V., Mauris G., Pathier E., Galichet S. Fusion of D-InSAR and subpixel image correlation measurements for coseismic displacement field estimation: Application to the Kashmir earthquake (2005). International Journal of Image and Data Fusion, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp.71-92, 2012. DOI :10.1080/19479832.2011.577563.
    • Yan Y., Mauris G., Trouvé E., Pinel V. Fuzzy uncertainty representations of co-seismic displacement measurements issued from SAR imagery. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation & Measurement, vol. 61, No. 5, pp. 1278 - 1286, 2012. DOI : 10.1109/TIM.2011.2175825.
    • Yan. Y., Doin M.P., Lopez-Quiroz P., Tupin F., Fruneau B., Pinel V., Trouvé E. Mexico City subsidence measured by InSAR time series: Joint analysis using PS and SBAS approaches. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, Vol. 5, No. 4, pp.1312 - 1326. 2012. DOI : 10.1109/JSTARS.2012.2191146
  • 2011
    • Vernier, F., Fallourd R., Friedt J.M., Yan Y., Trouvé E., Nicolas J.M., Moreau L. Fast Correlation Technique for Glacier Flow Monitoring by Digital Camera and Space-borne SAR Images. EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing, 2011 :11, DOI :10.1186/1687-5281-2011-11
  • 2010
    • Pétillot I., Trouvé E., Bolon Ph., Julea A., Yan Y., Gay M., Vanpé J.-M. Radar-Coding and Geocoding Lookup Tables for the Fusion of GIS and SAR Data in Mountain Areas. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 309-313, 2010. Doi : 10.1109/LGRS.2009.2034118