2024
The voices of the displaced: Mobility and Twitter conversations of migrants of Ukraine in 2022.
Inf. Process. Manag., March, 2024

How does pedestrian permeability vary in and across cities? A fine-grained assessment for all large cities in Germany.
Comput. Environ. Urban Syst., 2024

Quantifying Uncertainty in Slum Detection: Advancing Transfer Learning With Limited Data in Noisy Urban Environments.
IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Obs. Remote. Sens., 2024

The Influence of Commuting on Population Exposure to Air Pollution: Toward Global Application With a Proxy on the Degree of Urbanization.
IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Obs. Remote. Sens., 2024

The Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Morphological Slums in Mumbai, India.
IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Obs. Remote. Sens., 2024

NO<sub>2</sub> Air Pollution Trends and Settlement Growth in Megacities.
IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Obs. Remote. Sens., 2024

Interpretable deep learning for consistent large-scale urban population estimation using Earth observation data.
Int. J. Appl. Earth Obs. Geoinformation, 2024

Ai-Based Building Instance Segmentation in Formal and Informal Settlements.
Proceedings of the IGARSS 2024, 2024

2023
Detecting crisis events from unstructured text data using signal words as crisis determinants.
Int. J. Digit. Earth, December, 2023

Semi-supervised learning with constrained virtual support vector machines for classification of remote sensing image data.
Int. J. Appl. Earth Obs. Geoinformation, December, 2023

In the tension between large-scale analysis and accuracy - Identifying and analysing intra-urban (sub-)centre structures comparing official 3D-building models and TanDEM-X nDSMs.
Comput. Environ. Urban Syst., June, 2023

Quantitative assessment and comparison of urban patterns in Germany and the United States.
Comput. Environ. Urban Syst., March, 2023

The Individual Walkable Neighborhood - Evaluating people-centered spatial units focusing on urban density.
Comput. Environ. Urban Syst., 2023

Deep Neural Network Regression for Normalized Digital Surface Model Generation With Sentinel-2 Imagery.
IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Obs. Remote. Sens., 2023

The Unseen - An Investigative Analysis of Thematic and Spatial Coverage of News on the Ongoing Refugee Crisis in West Africa.
ISPRS Int. J. Geo Inf., 2023

A structural catalogue of the settlement morphology in refugee and IDP camps.
Int. J. Geogr. Inf. Sci., 2023

Revealing landslide exposure of informal settlements in Medellín using Deep Learning.
Proceedings of the Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event, 2023

Correlation between remotely sensed solid waste on streets and socioeconomic class of an urban area.
Proceedings of the Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event, 2023

Are citizens' perceptions on urban green spaces influenced by their immediate environment? The case of Grand Nokoue, Benin Republic.
Proceedings of the Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event, 2023

The 'ghost city' phenomenon in China: mapping and categorization at intra-urban scale.
Proceedings of the Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event, 2023

Efficiency of CNNs for Building Extraction: Comparative Analysis of Performance and Time.
Proceedings of the Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event, 2023

Detecting challenging urban environments using a few-shot meta-learning approach.
Proceedings of the Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event, 2023

Categorizing urban areas into "core", "fringe", and "periphery" based on the built-up morphology.
Proceedings of the Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event, 2023

Using CNNs on Sentinel-2 data for road traffic noise modelling.
Proceedings of the Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event, 2023

Integrating multi-source remote sensing data for monitoring urban development in West Africa.
Proceedings of the Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event, 2023

Linking remote sensing data and online engagement in flood events in Nigeria.
Proceedings of the Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event, 2023

Opposing land surface and air temperatures from remote sensing and Citizen Science for quantification of the Urban Heat Island effect.
Proceedings of the Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event, 2023

Spatiotemporal dynamics of slum populations in Caracas, Venezuela.
Proceedings of the Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event, 2023

Earth Observation-based analysis of NO2 pollution and settlement growth in megacities.
Proceedings of the Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event, 2023

Conducting Ethically Mindful Earth Observation Research: The Case of Slum Mapping.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2023

2022
To be, or not to be <i>'urban'</i>? A multi-modal method for the differentiated measurement of the degree of urbanization.
Comput. Environ. Urban Syst., 2022

Deep Relearning in the Geospatial Domain for Semantic Remote Sensing Image Segmentation.
IEEE Geosci. Remote. Sens. Lett., 2022

Geo-Information Harvesting from Social Media Data.
CoRR, 2022

So2Sat POP - A Curated Benchmark Data Set for Population Estimation from Space on a Continental Scale.
CoRR, 2022

Selection of unlabeled source domains for domain adaptation in remote sensing.
Array, 2022

Identification of undocumented buildings in cadastral data using remote sensing: Construction period, morphology, and landscape.
Int. J. Appl. Earth Obs. Geoinformation, 2022

Multi-target regressor chains with repetitive permutation scheme for characterization of built environments with remote sensing.
Int. J. Appl. Earth Obs. Geoinformation, 2022

Mapping of Small Water Bodies with Integrated Spatial Information for Time Series Images of Optical Remote Sensing.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2022

2021
Which city is the greenest? A multi-dimensional deconstruction of city rankings.
Comput. Environ. Urban Syst., 2021

Estimating quality of life dimensions from urban spatial pattern metrics.
Comput. Environ. Urban Syst., 2021

Deep Learning-Based Generation of Building Stock Data from Remote Sensing for Urban Heat Demand Modeling.
ISPRS Int. J. Geo Inf., 2021

How We Live and What That Means - A Character Study with Data from Space.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2021

Blinded by the Light: Monitoring Local Economic Development Over Time With Nightlight Emissions.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2021

2020
Spectral-Spatial Classification Integrating Band Selection for Hyperspectral Imagery With Severe Noise Bands.
IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Obs. Remote. Sens., 2020

Satellite-Based Mapping of Urban Poverty With Transfer-Learned Slum Morphologies.
IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Obs. Remote. Sens., 2020

Mapping Plastic Greenhouses Using Spectral Metrics Derived From GaoFen-2 Satellite Data.
IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Obs. Remote. Sens., 2020

Foreword to the Special Issue on Paving the Way for the Future of Urban Remote Sensing.
IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Obs. Remote. Sens., 2020

Uncertainties of Human Perception in Visual Image Interpretation in Complex Urban Environments.
IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Obs. Remote. Sens., 2020

Misperceptions of Predominant Slum Locations? Spatial Analysis of Slum Locations in Terms of Topography Based on Earth Observation Data.
Remote. Sens., 2020

Automatic Training Set Compilation With Multisource Geodata for DTM Generation From the TanDEM-X DSM.
IEEE Geosci. Remote. Sens. Lett., 2020

Analyzing Links between Spatio-Temporal Metrics of Built-Up Areas and Socio-Economic Indicators on a Semi-Global Scale.
ISPRS Int. J. Geo Inf., 2020

Spatial and semantic effects of LUCAS samples on fully automated land use/land cover classification in high-resolution Sentinel-2 data.
Int. J. Appl. Earth Obs. Geoinformation, 2020

Deriving Urban Mass Concentrations Using TanDEM-X and Sentinel-2 Data for the Assessment of Morphological Polycentricity.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2020

Stability Characterization of the Response of White Storks' Foraging Behavior to Vegetation Dynamics Retrieved from Landsat Time Series.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2020

2019
Has Dongying developed to a ghost city? - Evidence from multi-temporal population estimation based on VHR remote sensing and census counts.
Comput. Environ. Urban Syst., 2019

Large-Area Characterization of Urban Morphology - Mapping of Built-Up Height and Density Using TanDEM-X and Sentinel-2 Data.
IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Obs. Remote. Sens., 2019

Remote Sensing in Environmental Justice Research - A Review.
ISPRS Int. J. Geo Inf., 2019

Urbanization between compactness and dispersion: designing a spatial model for measuring 2D binary settlement landscape configurations.
Int. J. Digit. Earth, 2019

Urbanization in China from the end of 1980s until 2010 - spatial dynamics and patterns of growth using EO-data.
Int. J. Digit. Earth, 2019

Modelling the impact of the urban spatial structure on the choice of residential location using 'big earth data' and machine learning.
Proceedings of the Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event, 2019

Europe's socio-economic disparities reflected in settlement patterns derived from satellite data.
Proceedings of the Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event, 2019

Large-scale building extraction in very high-resolution aerial imagery using Mask R-CNN.
Proceedings of the Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event, 2019

Slum Mapping in Imbalanced Remote Sensing Datasets Using Transfer Learned Deep Features.
Proceedings of the Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event, 2019

Mapping Human Settlements with Multi-seasonal Sentinel-2 Imagery and Attention-based ResNeXt.
Proceedings of the Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event, 2019

How dynamic are slums? EO-based assessment of Kibera's morphologic transformation.
Proceedings of the Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event, 2019

Size Distributions for Morphological Slums in Asia and South America.
Proceedings of the Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event, 2019

Sensitivity of slum size distributions as a function of spatial parameters for slum classification.
Proceedings of the Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event, 2019

2018
Capturing the Urban Divide in Nighttime Light Images From the International Space Station.
IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Obs. Remote. Sens., 2018

Cost-Sensitive Multitask Active Learning for Characterization of Urban Environments With Remote Sensing.
IEEE Geosci. Remote. Sens. Lett., 2018

Are the Poor Digitally Left Behind? Indications of Urban Divides Based on Remote Sensing and Twitter Data.
ISPRS Int. J. Geo Inf., 2018

Are We in Boswash Yet? A Multi-Source Geodata Approach to Spatially Delimit Urban Corridors.
ISPRS Int. J. Geo Inf., 2018

Building Instance Classification Using Street View Images.
CoRR, 2018

Investigation on the separability of slums by multi-aspect TerraSAR-X dual-co-polarized high resolution spotlight images based on the multi-scale evaluation of local distributions.
Int. J. Appl. Earth Obs. Geoinformation, 2018

Designing a Water Supply Network for Slums in Rio de Janeiro Using Mixed-Integer Programming.
Proceedings of the Operations Research Proceedings 2018, 2018

Classification of Settlement Types from Tweets Using LDA and LSTM.
Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2018

2017
Measuring morphological polycentricity - A comparative analysis of urban mass concentrations using remote sensing data.
Comput. Environ. Urban Syst., 2017

Multitask Active Learning for Characterization of Built Environments With Multisensor Earth Observation Data.
IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Obs. Remote. Sens., 2017

Is Spatial Resolution Critical in Urbanization Velocity Analysis? Investigations in the Pearl River Delta.
Remote. Sens., 2017

On the Effect of Spatially Non-Disjoint Training and Test Samples on Estimated Model Generalization Capabilities in Supervised Classification With Spatial Features.
IEEE Geosci. Remote. Sens. Lett., 2017

Regions Set in Stone - Delimiting and Categorizing Regions in Europe by Settlement Patterns Derived from EO-Data.
ISPRS Int. J. Geo Inf., 2017

Unsupervised change detection in VHR remote sensing imagery - an object-based clustering approach in a dynamic urban environment.
Int. J. Appl. Earth Obs. Geoinformation, 2017

Class imbalance in unsupervised change detection - A diagnostic analysis from urban remote sensing.
Int. J. Appl. Earth Obs. Geoinformation, 2017

Exploitation of textural and morphological image features in Sentinel-2A data for slum mapping.
Proceedings of the Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event, 2017

Land use modeling in North Rhine-Westphalia with interaction and scaling laws.
Proceedings of the Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event, 2017

Mega-regions in China.
Proceedings of the Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event, 2017

Validation of the DLR Global Urban Footprint in rural areas: A case study for Burkina Faso.
Proceedings of the Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event, 2017

Evaluation of clustering algorithms for unsupervised change detection in VHR remote sensing imagery.
Proceedings of the Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event, 2017

Spatial patterns of slums: Comparing African and Asian cities.
Proceedings of the Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event, 2017

Digital deserts on the ground and from space.
Proceedings of the Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event, 2017

Towards large-area morphologic characterization of urban environments using the TanDEM-X mission and Sentinel-2.
Proceedings of the Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event, 2017

2016
Object-Based Morphological Profiles for Classification of Remote Sensing Imagery.
IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens., 2016

Building Types' Classification Using Shape-Based Features and Linear Discriminant Functions.
IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Obs. Remote. Sens., 2016

Estimation of Seismic Vulnerability Levels of Urban Structures With Multisensor Remote Sensing.
IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Obs. Remote. Sens., 2016

The Physical Density of the City - Deconstruction of the Delusive Density Measure with Evidence from Two European Megacities.
ISPRS Int. J. Geo Inf., 2016

A Comprehensive View on Urban Spatial Structure: Urban Density Patterns of German City Regions.
ISPRS Int. J. Geo Inf., 2016

A Global Inventory of Urban Corridors Based on Perceptions and Night-Time Light Imagery.
ISPRS Int. J. Geo Inf., 2016

2015
The spatial network of megaregions - Types of connectivity between cities based on settlement patterns derived from EO-data.
Comput. Environ. Urban Syst., 2015

Normalization of TanDEM-X DSM Data in Urban Environments With Morphological Filters.
IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens., 2015

Object-Based Postclassification Relearning.
IEEE Geosci. Remote. Sens. Lett., 2015

Evaluating the use of uncertainty visualization for exploratory analysis of land cover change: A qualitative expert user study.
Comput. Geosci., 2015

Monitoring of "urban villages" in Shenzhen, China from high-resolution GF-1 and TerraSAR-X data.
Proceedings of the SAR Image Analysis, 2015

At the edge of the city center.
Proceedings of the Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event, 2015

Classification of urban structural types with multisource data and structured models.
Proceedings of the Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event, 2015

Monitoring and modelling of informal settlements - A review on recent developments and challenges.
Proceedings of the Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event, 2015

Identifying urban corridors : unified concept and global analysis.
Proceedings of the 3rd AGILE PhD School, Champs sur Marne, France, September 15-18, 2015., 2015

2014
Investigating the Applicability of Cartosat-1 DEMs and Topographic Maps to Localize Large-Area Urban Mass Concentrations.
IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Obs. Remote. Sens., 2014

The global urban footprint - Processing status and cross comparison to existing human settlement products.
Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2014

2013
Urban Footprint Processor - Fully Automated Processing Chain Generating Settlement Masks From Global Data of the TanDEM-X Mission.
IEEE Geosci. Remote. Sens. Lett., 2013

2012
Performance Evaluation for 3-D City Model Generation of Six Different DSMs From Air- and Spaceborne Sensors.
IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Obs. Remote. Sens., 2012

Description of settlement patterns using VHR SAR data of the German TanDEM-X mission.
Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2012

2011
Remote Sensing-Based Characterization of Settlement Structures for Assessing Local Potential of District Heat.
Remote. Sens., 2011

Pattern-Based Accuracy Assessment of an Urban Footprint Classification Using TerraSAR-X Data.
IEEE Geosci. Remote. Sens. Lett., 2011

Spatio-temporal cross-city comparison using multi-sensoral remote sensing for Mexican cities.
Proceedings of the Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event, 2011

Delineating urban, suburban and rural areas using Landsat and DMSP-OLS night-time images.
Proceedings of the Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event, 2011

Comparison of selected impervious surface products derived from remote sensing data - A case study for the city of Munich.
Proceedings of the Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event, 2011

Interactive classification of urban areas using decision trees.
Proceedings of the Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event, 2011

Identification and characterization of urban structures using VHR SAR data.
Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2011

2010
An automated and adaptable approach for characterizing and partitioning cities into urban structure types.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Geoscience & Remote Sensing Symposium, 2010

2009
Urbanization in India - Spatiotemporal analysis using remote sensing data.
Comput. Environ. Urban Syst., 2009

2006
Automated Allocation of Highly Structured Urban Areas in Homogeneous Zones From Remote Sensing Data by Savitzky-Golay Filtering and Curve Sketching.
IEEE Geosci. Remote. Sens. Lett., 2006