Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing
Volume 1 / 2002 to Volume 26 / 2024
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Monika Kuffer
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Monitoring, trends and impacts of light pollution
Light pollution has increased globally, with 80% of the total population now living under light-polluted skies. In this Review, we elucidate the scope and importance of light pollution and discuss techniques t...
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Open AccessAI perceives like a local: predicting citizen deprivation perception using satellite imagery
Deprived urban areas, commonly referred to as ‘slums,’ are the consequence of unprecedented urbanisation. Previous studies have highlighted the potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Earth Observation (...
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Introduction
This chapter discusses the challenges faced by low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) in dealing with rapid transformation processes, including increasing inequalities, overconsumption of natural resources, h...
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Making Urban Slum Population Visible: Citizens and Satellites to Reinforce Slum Censuses
In response to the “Leave No One Behind” principle (the central promise of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development), reliable estimate of the total number of citizens living in slums is urgently needed but...
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Urban and Peri-Urban? Investigation of the Location of Informal Settlements Using Two Databases
Informal settlements are an integral feature of global urbanization, and their future dynamics will impact cities’ development. Current projections of informal settlements’ growth estimate these areas’ expansi...
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Putting the Invisible on the Map: Low-Cost Earth Observation for Map** and Characterizing Deprived Urban Areas (Slums)
It is estimated that more than half of city dwellers in sub-Saharan Africa currently live in deprived urban areas, often called slums or informal settlements, although these terms cover different urban realiti...
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Detection of Unmonitored Graveyards in VHR Satellite Data Using Fully Convolutional Networks
Lima, Peru, is a highly dynamic urban region home to perpetually evolving informal areas. Earth observation (EO) studies on these areas focused almost solely on their inhabited parts, the informal housing. In ...
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The Impact of Respondents’ Background Towards Slum Conceptualisations and Transferability Measurement of Remote Sensing–Based Slum Detections. Case Study: Jakarta, Indonesia
Updated and reliable data on slums’ location, extent, morphology, and living conditions is critical to implementing and evaluating the effectiveness of slum improvement programs. Object-based image analysis (O...
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Open AccessThe relationship between multiple hazards and deprivation using open geospatial data and machine learning
Deprived settlements, usually referred to as slums, are often located in hazardous areas. However, there have been very few studies to examine this notion. In this study, we leverage the advancements in open g...
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Data and Urban Poverty: Detecting and Characterising Slums and Deprived Urban Areas in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
A multidimensional characterisation of urban areas is essential to provide relevant data for monitoring deprived urban areas (urban poverty) beyond the dollar threshold (World Bank) or household characterisati...
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Open AccessIn-Between the Lines and Pixels: Cartography’s Transition from Tool of the State to Humanitarian Map** of Deprived Urban Areas
Cartography has been, in its pre-modern and modern production of maps, influential in determining how space and territory is experienced and defined. But advancements in telecommunications and geovisualization...
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The Spatial and Temporal Nature of Urban Objects
The purpose of this chapter is to examine, from an application perspective, the utility of remote sensing to collect data on urban and suburban areas for Urban Planning and Management (UPM). Specifically, the ...
