Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing
Volume 1 / 2002 to Volume 26 / 2024
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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 ...
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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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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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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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Volume 1 / 2002 to Volume 26 / 2024
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...