Breaking new ground in map** human settlements from space–The Global Urban Footprint

T Esch, W Heldens, A Hirner, M Keil… - ISPRS Journal of …, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Abstract Today, approximately 7.2 billion people inhabit the Earth and by 2050 this number
will have risen to around nine billion, of which about 70% will be living in cities. The …

A global geospatial ecosystem services estimate of urban agriculture

N Clinton, M Stuhlmacher, A Miles… - Earth's …, 2018‏ - Wiley Online Library
Though urban agriculture (UA), defined here as growing of crops in cities, is increasing in
popularity and importance globally, little is known about the aggregate benefits of such …

Map** fine-scale building heights in urban agglomeration with spaceborne lidar

X Ma, G Zheng, X Chi, L Yang, Q Geng, J Li… - Remote Sensing of …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
The increasing availability of 3-D urban data yields new insights into urban developments
and their implications for population density, energy consumption, and the carbon budget …

Perspectives on global dynamic exposure modelling for geo-risk assessment

M Pittore, M Wieland, K Fleming - Natural Hazards, 2017‏ - Springer
The need for a global approach to natural hazard and risk assessment is becoming
increasingly apparent to the disaster risk reduction community. Different natural (eg …

[HTML][HTML] Where we live—A summary of the achievements and planned evolution of the global urban footprint

T Esch, F Bachofer, W Heldens, A Hirner… - Remote Sensing, 2018‏ - mdpi.com
The TerraSAR-X (TSX) mission provides a distinguished collection of high resolution
satellite images that shows great promise for a global monitoring of human settlements …

[HTML][HTML] Comparison of digital building height models extracted from AW3D, TanDEM-X, ASTER, and SRTM digital surface models over Yangon City

P Misra, R Avtar, W Takeuchi - Remote Sensing, 2018‏ - mdpi.com
Vertical urban growth in the form of urban volume or building height is increasingly being
seen as a significant indicator and constituent of the urban environment. Although high …

[HTML][HTML] Towards a large-scale 3D modeling of the built environment—joint analysis of TanDEM-X, Sentinel-2 and open street map data

T Esch, J Zeidler, D Palacios-Lopez, M Marconcini… - Remote Sensing, 2020‏ - mdpi.com
Continental to global scale map** of the human settlement extent based on earth
observation satellite data has made considerable progress. Nevertheless, the current …

Urban morphology parameters from global digital elevation models: Implications for aerodynamic roughness and for wind-speed estimation

CW Kent, S Grimmond, D Gatey, K Hirano - Remote sensing of environment, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Urban morphology and aerodynamic roughness parameters are derived from three global
digital elevation models (GDEM): Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection …

Comparison of TanDEM-X DEM with LiDAR data for accuracy assessment in a coastal urban area

K Zhang, D Gann, M Ross, H Biswas, Y Li, J Rhome - Remote Sensing, 2019‏ - mdpi.com
The TanDEM-X (TDX) mission launched by the German Aerospace Center delivers
unprecedented global coverage of a high-quality digital elevation model (DEM) with a pixel …

Fusion of multi-sensor-derived heights and OSM-derived building footprints for urban 3D reconstruction

H Bagheri, M Schmitt, X Zhu - ISPRS International Journal of Geo …, 2019‏ - mdpi.com
So-called prismatic 3D building models, following the level-of-detail (LOD) 1 of the OGC City
Geography Markup Language (CityGML) standard, are usually generated automatically by …