Cities are responsible for a large share of the global energy consumption. A third of the total
greenhouse gas emissions are related to the buildings sector, making it an important target …

High-resolution population mapping is of high relevance for developing and implementing
tailored actions in several fields: From decision making in crisis management to urban …

In the intricate landscape of mapping urban slum dynamics, the significance of robust and
efficient techniques is often underestimated and remains absent in many studies. This not …

Kenya experiences massive urban growth, also into natural hazard-prone areas, exposing
settlements and the natural environment to riverine and pluvial floods and other natural …

Remote sensing applications of change detection are increasingly in demand for many
areas of land use and urbanization, and disaster risk reduction. The Sendai Framework for …

Openly available geodata of buildings are still incomplete or missing for many regions of the
world. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown to be suitable for building …