To promote the expansion and adoption of Digital Twins (DTs) in Smart Cities (SCs), a
detailed review of the impact of DTs and digitalization on cities is made to assess the …

Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have significantly intensified research in the
geoscience and remote sensing (RS) field. AI algorithms, especially deep learning-based …

Armed conflicts have detrimental impacts on the environment, including land systems. The
prevailing understanding of the relation between Land Use/Land Cover (LULC) and armed …

Mapping standing dead trees, especially, in natural forests is very important for evaluation of
the forest's health status, and its capability for storing Carbon, and the conservation of …

Dwelling information is very important for various applications in humanitarian emergency
response. For this, Earth observation is crucial to have spatially explicit and temporally …

Refugee-dwelling footprints derived from satellite imagery are beneficial for humanitarian
operations. Recently, deep learning approaches have attracted much attention in this …

Large-scale, high-resolution and multi-temporal impervious surface maps from remote
sensing are essential for socioeconomic and environmental studies. However, in complex …

The improvement in computer vision, sensor quality, and remote sensing data availability
makes satellite imagery increasingly useful for studying human settlements. Several …

Background The creation of relief camps following a disaster, conflict or other form of
externality often generates additional health problems. The density of people in a highly …

Dwelling information is essential for humanitarian emergency response during or in the
aftermath of disasters, especially in temporary settlement areas hosting forcibly displaced …