The COVID-19 pandemic poses unprecedented challenges around the world. Many studies
have applied mobility data to explore spatiotemporal trends over time, investigate …

Social media data are transforming sustainability science. However, challenges from
restrictions in data accessibility and ethical concerns regarding potential data misuse have …

Smart cities are an innovate concept for managing urban cities to enhance sustainability and
increase quality of life for citizens. Although urban water infrastructure (UWI) performs …

Urbanization is one of the most impactful human activities across the world today affecting
the quality of urban life and its sustainable development. Urbanization in Africa is occurring …

Flooding is one of the leading threats of natural disasters to human life and property,
especially in densely populated urban areas. Rapid and precise extraction of the flooded …

Large-scale monitoring of surface water bodies is of great significance to the sustainable
development of regional ecosystems. Remote sensing is currently the main method of global …

During disaster response and recovery stages, stakeholders including governmental
agencies collect disaster's impact information to inform disaster relief, resource allocation …

Urban flooding is one of the most widespread natural hazards in modern cities. Risk
map** provides critical information for flood risk management to reduce life and economic …

Timely detection of flooding is paramount for saving lives as well as evaluating levels of
damage. Floods generally occur under specific weather conditions, such as excessive …

This study questions the frequent overemphasis on population growth aspects of African
urbanization with little consideration of the spatial extent by analyzing the influence of …