A5012285539- Impact of Light on Environment and Health
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Arctic and Russian Policy Studies
- Remote-Sensing Image Classification
- Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
- Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation
- Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques
- Satellite Image Processing and Photogrammetry
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- earthquake and tectonic studies
- Global trade and economics
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
- Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies
- 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage
- Urban Heat Island Mitigation
- Spacecraft Design and Technology
- Conservation Techniques and Studies
- Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration
- Regional Development and Policy
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- Space exploration and regulation
- Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e. V. (DLR)
2018-2024
Abstract Human settlements are the cause and consequence of most environmental societal changes on Earth; however, their location extent is still under debate. We provide here a new 10 m resolution (0.32 arc sec) global map human Earth for year 2015, namely World Settlement Footprint 2015 (WSF2015). The raster dataset has been generated by means an advanced classification system which, first time, jointly exploits open-and-free optical radar satellite imagery. WSF2015 validated against...
Settlements, and in particular cities, are at the center of key future challenges related to global change sustainable development. Widely used indicators assess efficiency sustainability settlement development compactness density built-up area. However, scale, a temporally consistent spatially detailed survey distribution concentration building stock – meaning total area volume buildings within defined spatial unit or settlement, commonly referred as does not yet exist. To fill this data...
The TerraSAR-X (TSX) mission provides a distinguished collection of high resolution satellite images that shows great promise for global monitoring human settlements. Hence, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) has developed Urban Footprint Processor (UFP) represents an operational framework mapping built-up areas based on mass processing and analysis TSX imagery. UFP includes functionalities data management, feature extraction, unsupervised classification, mosaicking, post-editing. Based...
In the production of gridded population maps, remotely sensed, human settlement datasets rank among most important geographical factors to estimate densities and distributions at regional global scales. Within this context, German Aerospace Centre (DLR) has developed a new suite layers, which accurately describe built-up environment its characteristics high spatial resolution: (i) World Settlement Footprint 2015 layer (WSF-2015), binary mask; (ii) experimental Density (WSF-2015-Density),...
Continental to global scale mapping of the human settlement extent based on earth observation satellite data has made considerable progress. Nevertheless, current approaches only provide a two-dimensional representation built environment. Therewith, full characterization is restricted in terms urban morphology and built-up density, which can be gained by detailed examination vertical extent. This paper introduces methodology for extraction three-dimensional (3D) information settlements...
The field of human population mapping is constantly evolving, leveraging the increasing availability high-resolution satellite imagery and advancements in machine learning. In recent years, emergence global built-area datasets that accurately describe extent, location, characteristics settlements has facilitated production new grids, with improved quality, accuracy, spatial resolution. this research, we explore capabilities novel World Settlement Footprint 2019 Imperviousness layer...
Abstract Buildings provide indispensable services for human well‐being, but their construction and use are responsible a substantial fraction of societies’ resource requirements greenhouse gas emissions. Mapping quantifying the material stocks in buildings is key research frontier industrial ecology. Reliable spatially highly resolved maps worldwide so far not available. Existing approaches based on nighttime light data allow large‐scale coverage, spatial resolution usually ∼0.5–1 km. Other...
"Leaving no one behind" is the fundamental objective of 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Latin America and Caribbean marked by social inequalities, whilst its total population projected to increase almost 760 million 2050. In this context, contemporary spatially detailed datasets that accurately capture distribution residential are critical appropriately inform support environmental, health, developmental applications at subnational levels. Existing under-utilised governments due...
Large-scale gridded population datasets available at the global or continental scale have become an important source of information in applications related to sustainable development. In recent years, emergence new models has leveraged inclusion more accurate and spatially detailed proxy layers describing built-up environment (e.g., built-area building footprint datasets), enhancing quality, accuracy spatial resolution existing products. However, due consistent lack vertical functional on...
As urbanization continues to increase, key conservation areas like World Heritage sites are being altered. This transformation is a cause for concern as it threatens the Outstanding Universal Value of these sites. To address this issue, research question was formulated: How urban Heritage? The focused on identifying and monitoring in heritage core zones listed by tracking changes built-up from 1985 2015. findings revealed that developments, including housing, transport infrastructure...
As urbanization accelerates, World Heritage properties, critical conservation areas, face a growing threat of urban densification, jeopardizing their Outstanding Universal Value (OUV). States Parties, the countries that have ratified Convention, are responsible for submitting periodic reports on state-of-conservation properties. These should explicitly address any instances densification may be occurring. But do they? This research investigates relationship between and reporting practices in...
Human settlements are the cause and consequence of most environmental societal changes on Earth; however, their location extent is still under debate. We provide here a new 10m resolution (0.32 arc sec) global map human Earth for year 2015, namely World Settlement Footprint 2015 (WSF2015). The raster dataset has been generated by means an advanced classification system which, first time, jointly exploits open-and-free optical radar satellite imagery. WSF2015 validated against 900,000 samples...