Human mobility data in the COVID-19 pandemic: characteristics, applications, and challenges

T Hu, S Wang, B She, M Zhang, X Huang… - … Journal of Digital …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The COVID-19 pandemic poses unprecedented challenges around the world. Many studies
have applied mobility data to explore spatiotemporal trends over time, investigate …

[HTML][HTML] Towards a smart water city: A comprehensive review of applications, data requirements, and communication technologies for integrated management

M Oberascher, W Rauch, R Sitzenfrei - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2022 - Elsevier
Smart cities are an innovate concept for managing urban cities to enhance sustainability and
increase quality of life for citizens. Although urban water infrastructure (UWI) performs …

[PDF][PDF] Social media data for environmental sustainability: A critical review of opportunities, threats, and ethical use

A Ghermandi, J Langemeyer, D Van Berkel, F Calcagni… - One Earth, 2023 - cell.com
Social media data are transforming sustainability science. However, challenges from
restrictions in data accessibility and ethical concerns regarding potential data misuse have …

Urban sprawl and its impact on sustainable urban development: a combination of remote sensing and social media data

Z Shao, NS Sumari, A Portnov, F Ujoh… - Geo-Spatial …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Urbanization is one of the most impactful human activities across the world today affecting
the quality of urban life and its sustainable development. Urbanization in Africa is occurring …

Deep convolutional neural network for flood extent mapping using unmanned aerial vehicles data

A Gebrehiwot, L Hashemi-Beni, G Thompson… - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
Flooding is one of the leading threats of natural disasters to human life and property,
especially in densely populated urban areas. Rapid and precise extraction of the flooded …

Accurate water extraction using remote sensing imagery based on normalized difference water index and unsupervised deep learning

J Li, Y Meng, Y Li, Q Cui, X Yang, C Tao, Z Wang… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Large-scale monitoring of surface water bodies is of great significance to the sustainable
development of regional ecosystems. Remote sensing is currently the main method of global …

Leveraging multimodal social media data for rapid disaster damage assessment

H Hao, Y Wang - International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 2020 - Elsevier
During disaster response and recovery stages, stakeholders including governmental
agencies collect disaster's impact information to inform disaster relief, resource allocation …

On the absurdity of rapid urbanization: Spatio-temporal analysis of land-use changes in Morogoro, Tanzania

NS Sumari, PB Cobbinah, F Ujoh, G Xu - Cities, 2020 - Elsevier
This study questions the frequent overemphasis on population growth aspects of African
urbanization with little consideration of the spatial extent by analyzing the influence of …

Near-real-time flood mapping using off-the-shelf models with SAR imagery and deep learning

V Katiyar, N Tamkuan, M Nagai - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
Timely detection of flooding is paramount for saving lives as well as evaluating levels of
damage. Floods generally occur under specific weather conditions, such as excessive …

ATLANTIS: A benchmark for semantic segmentation of waterbody images

SMH Erfani, Z Wu, X Wu, S Wang… - Environmental Modelling & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Vision-based semantic segmentation of waterbodies and nearby related objects provides
important information for managing water resources and handling flooding emergency …