Big data in natural disaster management: a review

M Yu, C Yang, Y Li - Geosciences, 2018 - mdpi.com
Undoubtedly, the age of big data has opened new options for natural disaster management,
primarily because of the varied possibilities it provides in visualizing, analyzing, and …

Achieving universal electrification of rural healthcare facilities in sub-Saharan Africa with decentralized renewable energy technologies

M Moner-Girona, G Kakoulaki, G Falchetta, DJ Weiss… - Joule, 2021 - cell.com
A potential response to the COVID-19 pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) with long-term
benefits is to provide electricity for medical equipment in rural health centers and …

Review of big data and processing frameworks for disaster response applications

SP Cumbane, G Gidófalvi - ISPRS International Journal of Geo …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Natural hazards result in devastating losses in human life, environmental assets and
personal, and regional and national economies. The availability of different big data such as …

Assessment of the added-value of Sentinel-2 for detecting built-up areas

M Pesaresi, C Corbane, A Julea, AJ Florczyk, V Syrris… - Remote Sensing, 2016 - mdpi.com
Monitoring of the human-induced changes and the availability of reliable and
methodologically consistent urban area maps are essential to support sustainable urban …

Principles and applications of the global human settlement layer as baseline for the land use efficiency indicator—SDG 11.3. 1

M Melchiorri, M Pesaresi, AJ Florczyk… - … International Journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
The Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL) produces new global spatial information,
evidence-based analytics describing the human presence on the planet that is based mainly …

Global mapping of urban thermal anisotropy reveals substantial potential biases for remotely sensed urban climates

H Du, W Zhan, Z Liu, ES Krayenhoff, TC Chakraborty… - Science Bulletin, 2023 - Elsevier
Urban thermal anisotropy (UTA) drastically impacts satellite-derived urban surface
temperatures and fluxes, and consequently makes it difficult to gain a more comprehensive …

Assessing the accuracy of multi-temporal built-up land layers across rural-urban trajectories in the United States

S Leyk, JH Uhl, D Balk, B Jones - Remote sensing of environment, 2018 - Elsevier
Global data on settlements, built-up land and population distributions are becoming
increasingly available and represent important inputs to a better understanding of key …

An improved global analysis of population distribution in proximity to active volcanoes, 1975–2015

S Freire, AJ Florczyk, M Pesaresi, R Sliuzas - ISPRS international journal …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Better and more detailed analyses of global human exposure to hazards and associated
disaster risk require improved geoinformation on population distribution and densities. In …

Characterizing and measuring urban landscapes for sustainability

EC Stokes, KC Seto - Environmental Research Letters, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Urban areas are key to sustainability, and understanding heterogeneity in urban landscapes
is important for linking development patterns to ecological, economic, and social health …

Rapid damage assessment effectiveness for the 2023 Kahramanmaraş Türkiye earthquake sequence

S Apostolaki, E Riga, D Pitilakis - International Journal of Disaster Risk …, 2024 - Elsevier
The recent devastating 2023 Türkiye earthquakes underscored the urgent need for an early
estimate of quantitative losses following destructive seismic events. This study aims to …