Cities are particularly vulnerable to meteorological hazards because of the concentration of
population, goods, capital stock and infrastructure. Urban climate services require multi …

Recently, the notion of a smart city, which includes smart well‐being, smart transit, and smart
society, has attracted much attention due to its impact on people's quality of living. Data in …

Settlements, and in particular cities, are at the center of key future challenges related to
global change and sustainable development. Widely used indicators to assess the efficiency …

As a result of the socioeconomic transformation, the rapid urban expansion of cities and
towns in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states has predominately led to tremendous …

Human settlements are the cause and consequence of most environmental and societal
changes on Earth; however, their location and extent is still under debate. We provide here a …

Urbanization as a global phenomenon is a multifaceted process. Here we do the first global
attempt to characterize the complexity of urbanization from 1975 to 2015 in terms of …

Highlights•Remote sensing and geospatial technologies are relevant to the engagement of
Land System Science (LSS) with normative (eg research and policy) goals.•Remote sensing …

The increased availability of high-resolution multispectral imagery captured by remote
sensing platforms provides new opportunities for the characterisation and differentiation of …

Understanding and governing human settlement patterns is a major challenge of the urban
age. While rural settlements emerge as parts of agricultural landscapes, cities typically …

Continental to global scale map** of the human settlement extent based on earth
observation satellite data has made considerable progress. Nevertheless, the current …