Scientific contributions from remote sensing over the last fifty years have significantly
advanced our understanding of urban areas. Key contributions of urban remote sensing …

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 …

The body of scientific literature on slum map** employing remote sensing methods has
increased since the availability of more very-high-resolution (VHR) sensors. This improves …

With 37 million inhabitants, Tokyo is the world's largest city in UN statistics. With this work we
call this ranking into question. Usually, global city rankings are based on nationally collected …

Gaining access to labeled reference data is one of the great challenges in supervised
machine-learning endeavors. This is especially true for an automated analysis of remote …

Built structures increasingly dominate the Earth's landscapes; their surging mass is currently
overtaking global biomass. We here assess built structures in the conterminous US by …

Urban sprawl is a major challenge on the way to sustainable land use as highlighted by the
International Year of Soils 2015. Because of increasing awareness of this threat in Europe …

The accurate estimation of population living in the low-elevation coastal zone (LECZ)–and at
heightened risk from sea level rise–is critically important for policymakers and risk managers …

The German TerraSAR-X add-on for Digital Elevation Measurement (TanDEM-X) mission
(TDM) collects two global data sets of very high resolution (VHR) synthetic aperture radar …