Cities are the most dramatic manifestations of human activities on the surface of the earth.
These human-dominated organisms—ie, cities—degrade natural habitats, simplify species …

Informal settlements exist in a legally contested space and the quality of–and access to–
information about them has been historically limited. The open data movement promises to …

The aim of the paper is to develop a model for the real-time estimation of local level income
data by combining machine learning, Earth Observation, and Geographic Information …

Drone imagery has the potential to enrich urban planning and historic preservation,
especially where it converges with the growing creation and use of 3D models in the context …

Geographic information technologies (GIT) have matured, have become pervasive
throughout many types of organizations over recent decades and gained a wide range of …

Urban built-up area, one of the most important measures of an urban landscape, is an
essential variable for understanding ecological and socioeconomic processes in urban …

As the world becomes increasingly urbanized, it is vital for planners and policy-makers to
understand the patterns of urban expansion and the underlying driving forces. This study …

In recent decades, developing countries have experienced an increase in the impact of
natural disasters due to ongoing climate change and the sustained expansion of urban …

The digital transformation taking place in all areas of life has led to a massive increase in
digital data–in particular, related to the places where and the ways how we live. To facilitate …

This study uses very high-resolution Pléiades imagery for the densely built-up central part of
the City of Kigali for the year 2015 in order to derive urban morphology data on building …