Keynote Speech - Urban environmental change from space

Benjamin Bechtel

Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany

 

Mapping Functional Urban Green Types With The Combined Use Of Hyperspectral, Multispectral And LiDAR Data

Jeroen Degerickx^1,2, Martin Hermy², Ben Somers²

¹VITO, Belgium; ²Division of Forest, Nature and Landscape, KULeuven, Belgium

Green Growth? On The Relation Between Population Density, Land Use And Vegetation Cover Fractions In A City Using A 30-Years Landsat Time Series.

Thilo Wellmann^1,2, Franz Schug¹, Dagmar Haase^1,2, Dirk Pflugmacher¹, Sebastian van der Linden^1,3

¹Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany; ²UFZ Leipzig, Germany; ³University of Greifswald, Germany

Evaluating Built-up Indices for DisTrad Thermal Sharpening over the Arid and Semi-Arid Regions; Case Study: Gaza Strip

Wiesam A. Essa^1,2, Jonathan Huck², Rachid Lhissou³

¹Department of Geography, University of Mancheter, United Kingdom; ²Department of Geography, Al-Aqsa Univeristy. Palestine; ³Centre Eau Terre Environnement (ÉTÉ-INRS), Universitie du Quebec, Canada

Mapping Of Urban Land Surface Temperatures By The Future THRISHNA Mission : Focus On Inversion And Sharpening Methods

Aurélie Michel, Carlos Granero-Belinchon, Xavier Briottet

ONERA-DOTA, France

Monitoring Water Vapour Distribution Over Cities Using Galileo Signals From Connected Vehicles: A Feasibility Study

Steffen Schön¹, Lucy Icking¹, Gael Kermarrec²

¹Institut für Erdmessung, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany; ²Geodetic Institute, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany

Early Detection Of Heracleum mantegazzianum (Giant Hogweed) From UAV Images Using SVM And OBIA

Sheeba Lawrence¹, Wietske Bijker², Valentyn Tolpekin³

¹eLEAF B.V., the Netherlands; ²University of Twente, Faculty ITC, the Netherlands; ³ICEYE, Finland

Mapping Of Tree Species In The City: Challenges Of The Application Project

Dominik Kopeć^1,2, Jan Niedzielko¹, Adam Kania³, Justyna Wylazłowska¹, Anna Halladin-Dąbrowska¹, Jakub Charyton¹, Łukasz Sławik^1,4

¹MGGP Aero Sp. z o.o.; ²University of Lodz; ³Definity Sp. z o.o.; ⁴University of Warsaw

Copernicus Land Monitoring Service new High Resolution Layer 2015: the Small Woody Features – research, development and production story

Antoine Masse, Loic Faucqueur, Nathalie Morin, Pierre-Yves Rémy, Justine Hugé, Fabrice Dazin, Carlos De Wasseige, Christophe Sannier

CLS Lille, 61rue de la Cimaise, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France

Rapid Country-Scale Inundation Mapping For Urban Planning In Bangladesh Using Copernicus Sentinel-1 Data And Google Earth Engine

Lukas Wimmer, Nicolas Jakob Wagener

Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR), Germany

Evaluation Of Green Infrastructure Development With High Spatial Resolution Worldview-2 Images In The Baoshan District, Shanghai, China

Lars Gruenhagen¹, Malte Bührs¹, Matthias Falke¹, Luis Inostroza¹, Harald Zepp¹, Carsten Jürgens¹, Thomas Schmitt¹, Nannan Dong²

¹Ruhr-University Bochum, Geography Department, Germany; ²Tongji-University, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, China

 

Keynote Speech – Four-Dimensional Observations of Urban Changes and Environmental Impact Assessments

Son Van Nghiem

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States of America

 

Household Wealth in HD: Mapping the Demographic and Health Surveys Wealth Index in Sub-Saharan African Cities with Very-High-Resolution Satellite Data

Stefanos Georganos¹, Assane Niang Gadiaga², Catherine Linard², Tais Grippa¹, Sabine Vanhuysse¹, Nicholus Mboga¹, Eléonore Wolff¹, Sébastien Dujardin², Moritz Lennert¹

¹Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium; ²University of Namur, Belgium

Analysing the Robustness of Sampling in Gradient Analysis of Urban Material Mixtures

Chaonan Ji^1,2, Marianne Jilge¹, Uta Heiden¹, Marion Stellmes³, Hannes Feilhauer^3,4

¹German Aerospace Center, Germany; ²Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany; ³Freie Universität Berlin, Germany; ⁴FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

Towards a Generic Spectral Library for Urban Mapping Applications

Frederik Priem¹, Marianne Jilge², Uta Heiden², Ben Somers³, Frank Canters¹

¹Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Cartography and GIS Research Group, Belgium; ²Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Earth Observation Center, Germany; ³KU Leuven, Division of Forest, Nature and Landscape, Belgium

Settlement Monitoring For Renewable Energy Provision In Indigenous Communities Of The Ecuadorian Amazon

Valerie Graw¹, Javier Muro², José Jara^3,4, Leo Zurita⁵, Andreas Rienow¹, Esteban Calderón⁴, Richard Resl⁵

¹Ruhr-University Bochum, Department of Geography, Germany; ²University of Bonn, Center for Remote Sensing of Land Surfaces (ZFL), Germany; ³Tratural, energía removable, Cuenca, Ecuador; ⁴Universidad del Azuay (UDA), Ecuador; ⁵Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ), Ecuador

Regression-based Unmixing Of Urban Land Cover Across Multiple Cities – Evaluating Multi-site Libraries And Gaussian Process Uncertainties For Model Generalization

Akpona Okujeni¹, Sam Cooper¹, Patrick Hostert^1,2, Sebastian van der Linden³

¹Earth Observation Lab, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; ²Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys), Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin; ³Institute of Geography and Geology, Universität Greifswald

Roof Material Mapping: Application Over Liège Using Open-Source Object-Based Supervised Classification Algorithms

Coraline Wyard¹, Benjamin Beaumont¹, Rodolphe Marion², Laure Roupioz³, Eric Hallot¹

¹ISSeP, Belgium; ²CEA, France; ³ONERA, France

The Garden Monitor (Garmon) : What is a garden ? Technically...

Jo Van Valckenborgh, Stijn Van der Linden, Ben Somers, Jingli Yan, Veerle Strosse

Informatie Vlaanderen, Belgium

Blue-green Microstructures - Detection Of Geometrical And Permeability Features Of Microstructures

Agnieszka Kinga Kuras¹, Øivind Due Trier², Thomas Thiis¹, Vetle Odin Jonassen³, Niki Gaitani⁴, Christian Rogass⁵, Ingunn Burud¹

¹Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, PB 5003, 1430 Aas, Norway; ²Norwegian Computing Center, Section for Earth Observation, Oslo, Norway; ³Terratec AS, Vækerøveien 3, 0281 Oslo, Norway; ⁴Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Architecture and Technology, Høgskoleringen 1, 7491 Trondheim, Norway; ⁵Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, UFZ, Permoserstraße 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany

Potential of Green Roofs in the East bank of Liege, Belgium

Mitali Yeshwant Joshi¹, Simon Rohon¹, Gilles-Antoine Nys², Jacques Teller¹

¹University of Liege, LEMA, Department of Urban and Environmental Engineering, Belgium; ²University of Liege, Geomatics unit, SPHERES, Department of Geography, Belgium

Continental-scale Mapping and Analysis of 3D Building Structure

Mengmeng Li¹, Elco Koks¹, Hannes Taubenböck^2,3, Jasper van Vliet¹

¹VU University Amsterdam, Institute for Environmental Studies, the Netherlands; ²German Aerospace Center (DLR), German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD), Germany; ³Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Institute for Geography and Geology, Germany

Using Multiple Molor Spaces of Orthophotos and Computer Vision Method for Building Segmentation and Change Recognition

Lingli Zhu , Heli Laaksonen, Jani Kylmäaho, Juha Vilhomaa, Juha Hyyppä, Mikko Sippo

National land survey of Finland, Finland

3D Data On Regional Scale: What Are The Main Mapping Products And Associated Users?

Yohann François¹, Nathalie Stephenne², Philippe Lejeune¹, Adrien Michez¹

¹University of Liège / Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, Belgium; ²Service Public de Wallonie (SPW), Geomatic Department, Belgium

 

Keynote Speech - Mapping Urban Population Distribution In Data-Scarce Countries

Catherine Linard

Université de Namur, Belgium

 

 

Keynote speech - The complexity of cities in the Global South from Space

Monika Kuffer

University of Twente, The Netherlands

 

The Potential of SAR and OPTICAL Sentinel Images for the Automatic Monitoring of Redevelopment Sites

Sophie Petit¹, Mattia Stasolla², Wyard Coraline¹, Gerard Swinnen¹, Odile Close¹, Benjamin Beaumont¹, Christophe Rasumny³, Xavier Neyt², Eric Hallot¹

¹Remote Sensing and Geodata Unit, Institut Scientifique de Service Public, Belgium; ²Royal Military Academy, Belgium; ³Land Planning, Housing, Heritage and Energy, Service Public de Wallonie, Belgium

Assessing the Capabilities of Sentinel-1 and 2 for Citywide Slum Mapping with Machine Learning

Sabine Vanhuysse¹, Taïs Grippa¹, Monika Kuffer², Stefanos Georganos¹, Nicholus Mboga¹, Eléonore Wolff¹, Moritz Lennert¹

¹Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Department of Geosciences, Environment and Society, Belgium; ²University of Twente, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), The Netherlands

Citizens and Satellites – Multisource Monitoring of Urban Sprawl in Context of Climate Change Adaptation based on Remotely Sensed Time Series and Crowdmapping in German Metropolitan Regions

Gohar Ghazaryan¹, Francis Hugenroth², Carsten Jürgens³, Sarah Sticksel³, Birte Trampnau³, Anke Valentin², Andreas Rienow³

¹University of Bonn, Germany; ²Science Shop Bonn, Germany; ³Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany

Copernicus for Urban Resilience in Europe: The CURE Project Idea

Nektarios Chrysoulakis¹, Zina Mitraka¹, Mattia Marconcini², David Ludlow³, Zaheer Khan³, Brigitte Holt Andersen⁴, Tomas Soukup⁵, Andreas Walli⁶, Alessandra Gandini⁷, Jürgen Kropp⁸, Dirk Lauwaet⁹, Christian Feigenwinter¹⁰

¹FORTH, Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics, Remote Sensing Lab, Greece; ²DLR, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Germany; ³University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom; ⁴Institute of Applied Economics Aps, Denmark; ⁵Gisat S.R.O., Czech Republic; ⁶GeoVille Informationssysteme und Datenverarbeitung GMBH, Austria; ⁷TECNALIA, Fundacion Tecnalia Research & Innovation, Spain; ⁸PIK, otsdam Institut fuer Klimafolgenforschung, Germany; ⁹VITO, laamse Instelling voor Technologisch Onderzoek N.V., Belgium; ¹⁰Universitaet Basel, Switzerland

Multinomial Logistic Regression And Cellular Automata For Modelling Of Urban Sprinkling

Lucia Saganeiti¹, Ahmed Mustafa², Beniamino Murgante¹, Jacques Teller³

¹School of Engineering, University of Basilicata, Potenza, Italy; ²Urban systems lab, the new school, New York, USA; ³LEMA, Urban and Environmental Engineering Department, Liège University, Belgium

Leveraging IDP Sites as Pseudo-administrative Boundaries for Improved Gridded Population Mapping

Hannah Rosenblum, John T. Fitzwater, Derek Azar, Joshua Comenetz, Arthur Desch, Nicholas John

U.S. Census Bureau

The Utility of Gridded Mapping Systems to Capture Deprived Urban Areas in Low-income Country Cities

Michael Malkin^1,2, Monika Kuffer², Jon Wang²

¹Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany; ²University of Twente, ITC, The Netherlands

A Spatial Assessment of Low-Income Housing Estate Programs In The Periphery Of Mexico City Using Remote Sensing And Census Data

Stéphane Couturier^1,2, Adrian Flores³, Roberto Huerta Luna¹, Richard Sliuzas², Monika Kuffer², Javier Osorno Covarrubias¹

¹UNAM, Mexico; ²University of Twente, Netherlands; ³University of Anáhuac, Mexico

 

Keynote Speech - Urbanization and sustainability under global change and transitional economies: Synthesis from Southeast, East, and North Asia (SENA)

Peilei Fan

Michigan State University, Center for Global Change and Earth Observations (CGCEO), United States of America

 

Knowledge Gaps In Earth Observation-based Mapping Of Human Settlements: From An Ontological Perspective.

Jiong Wang¹, Monika Kuffer²

¹Utrecht University, Netherlands, The; ²University of Twente, Netherlands, The

Identifying Human Settlement Growth Types Using Symbolic Machine Learning and Geographic Information Systems: Assiut Governorate as a Case Study

Mahmood Abdelkader^1,2, Luc Boorboem¹, Richard Sliuzas¹, Jaap Zevenbergen¹

¹ITC, Twente University, Netherlands, The; ²Faculty of Engineering, Assiut University, Egypt

Global Building Map from Sentinel-1 satellite mission

Marco Chini¹, Ramona Pelich¹, Renaud Hostache¹, Patrick Matgen¹, Carlos López-Martínez²

¹Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg; ²Univeristat Politecnica de Catalunya

Automated Urban Footprint Mapping Over Large Areas: a Method Implemented for Massive Streams of Sentinel-2 Data

Romain Wenger¹, David Michéa², Anne Puissant¹

¹LIVE CNRS UMR 7362, University of Strasbourg, France; ²ICUBE CNRS UMR 7357, University of Strasbourg, France

Beyond Built-up Land: Towards A More Nuanced Analysis Of Settlement System Changes

Jasper van Vliet¹, Mengmeng Li¹, Yuan Wang¹, Peter Verburg^1,2

¹VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands, The; ²Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Switzerland

Spatial analysis of Slum Characteristics based on the Generic Slum Ontology – Case of two Brazilian cities

Divyani Kohli, Monika Kuffer

ITC, University of Twente, Netherlands

The Morphology Of The Arrival City

Hannes Taubenboeck¹, Michael Wurm², Nicolas Kraff², Maria Hochleitner³

¹German Aerospace Center (DLR),; ²German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD); ³European Space Imaging, Germany

Urban Growth Analysis Using Satellite Data and Socioeconomic Variables in Uyo (Nigeria)

Etido Essien, Cyrus Samimi

University of Bayreuth, Germany

A Random Forest Dasymetric Approach For Mapping The Population Distribution At High Spatial Resolution

Eric Hallot¹, Armand Okende^1,2, Tais Grippa², Benjamin Beaumont¹

¹Remote Sensing and Geodata Unit, Institut Scientifique de Service Public, Belgium; ²ANAGEO-DGES, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

 

 

Keynote speech - Artificial Intelligence Helps Monitoring Urban Functions

Devis Tuia

An Open Source Mapping Scheme For Developing Wallonia’s INSPIRE Compliant Land Cover And Land Use Datasets.

Benjamin Beaumont¹, Tais Grippa², Moritz Lennert², Julien Radoux³, Céline Bassine³, Pierre Defourny³, Eleonore Wolff²

¹Remote Sensing and Geodata Unit, Institut Scientifique de Service Public, Belgium; ²ANAGEO-DGES, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium; ³Earth and Life Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium

Towards Automated Urban Map Revision Using Deep Neural Networks on Airborne Lidar and Hyperspectral Data

Øivind Due Trier

Norwegian Computing Center, Norway

Fully Convolutional Networks For Landcover Classification From Historical Black And White Aerial Photographs Of Central Africa

Nicholus Mboga¹, Tais Grippa¹, Stefanos Georganos¹, Sabine Vanhuysse¹, Benoit Smets^2,3, Olivier Dewitte², Eléonore Wolff¹, Moritz Lennert¹

¹Université libre de Bruxelles, Department of Geosciences, Environment & Society, Av Franklin Roosevelt 50-1050 , Brussels, Belgium; ²Department of Earth Sciences, royal Museum for Central Africa, Leuvensesteenweg 13, 3080 Tervuren, Belgium; ³Cartography and GIS Research Group, department of Geography, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium

Assessment of Texture Features’ Contribution in Discriminating Natural Bare Areas vs. Artificially Covered Ones: Chania Case Study

Ioannis Manakos¹, Adel Ledawi², Argyrios Stergioudis¹, Chariton Kalaitzidis²

¹Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece; ²International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies, Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania, Greece

Mapping Settlement And Vegetation Continuous Fields At National Scale In A Temperate Environment Using Sentinel-2

Franz Schug¹, David Frantz¹, Akpona Okujeni¹, Sebastian van der Linden^1,2, Patrick Hostert^1,3

¹Earth Observation Lab, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany; ²Institute of Geography and Geology, Universität Greifswald, Germany; ³Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys), Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin, Germany

Land Cover Semantic Segmentation Of SPOT-6/7 And Sentinel-2 Data Using CNN

Arnaud Le Bris, Olivier Stocker

Univ. Gustave Eiffel, IGN-ENSG, LaSTIG, France

Using Sentinel-1/2 Data to Detect New Urban Elements in Agricultural Parcels

Alban Jago, Emilie Bériaux, Cozmin Lucau-Danila, Viviane Planchon

Walloon Agricultural Research Centre - CRA-W, Belgium

Regional Environment Monitoring Using Copernicus Sentinel-1 SAR Images: Interferometric SAR Coherence as an Indicator of Dynamic Land Cover Changes

Dominique Derauw¹, Ludivine Libert^1,2, Anne Orban¹, Christian Barbier¹

¹Centre Spatial de Liège, University of Liège, Belgium; ²Enveo, Austria

 

Keynote speech - Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation: Strategic Directions for Urban Remote Sensing

Karen Seto

Yale University, School of the Environment, United States of America

 

UrbanTEP – EO Data Processing, Integrative Data Analysis and Monitoring for SDG Reporting

Felix Bachofer¹, Thomas Esch¹, Jakub Balhar², Martin Boettcher³, Enguerran Boissier⁴, Mattia Marconcini¹, Annekatrin Metz-Marconcini¹, Michal Opletal², Fabrizio Pacini⁴, Tomas Soukup², Vaclav Svaton⁵, Julian Zeidler¹

¹German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; ²GISAT s.r.o., Czech Republic; ³Brockmann Consult GmbH, Germany; ⁴Terradue Srl., Italy; ⁵IT4Innovations, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic

COPERNICUS Global Land Products and Services and the Sustainable Development Goals

Pietro Ceccato¹, Michael Cherlet², Marie Lang³

¹SPACEBEL, Belgium; ²EC Joint Research Center, Italy; ³Université de Liège, Belgium

Automatic Detection Of Urban Vacant Land: An Open-Source Approach For Sustainable Cities

Shaojuan Xu^1,2, Manfred Ehlers²

¹Research Institute for Regional and Urban Development, Germany; ²Osnabrück University, Germany

Earth Observation for Sustainable Development in Urban Areas: Results and Achievements from ESA’s EO4SD-Urban project

Manuela Hirschmugl^1,4, Jan Kolomaznik², Tomas Soukup², Amelie Broszeit³, Carina Sobe¹, Herwig Proske¹

¹Joanneum Research, Austria; ²GISAT; ³GAF AG; ⁴University of Graz, Institute of Geography and Regional Science

An Integrated Deprived Area Mapping “System”

Monika Kuffer¹, Dana Thomson², Gianluca Boo², Ron Mahabir³, Tais Grippa⁴, Sabine Vanhuysse⁴, Joao Porto de Albuquerque⁵, Ryan Engstrom⁶, Robert Ndugwa⁷, Jack Makau⁸, Caroline Kabaria⁹

¹University of Twente, ITC, The Netherlands; ²University of Southampton, Geography and Environmental Science UK; ³George Mason University, Department of Computational and Data Sciences, USA; ⁴Université Libre de Bruxelles, IGEAT, Belgium; ⁵Warwick University, Institute for Global Sustainable Development, UK; ⁶George Washington University, Department of Geography, USA; ⁷UN-Habitat, GUO, Kenya; ⁸Slum Dwellers International, Kenya; ⁹African Population and Health Research Center, Kenya

Urbanisation and Ground Deformation Patterns in Khulna, Bangladesh in the Context of a Climate Change Adapted Urban Planning

Nicolas Jakob Wagener, Lukas Wimmer, Andre Cahyadi Kalia

Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR), Germany

Supporting Urban Sanitation Management Through The Integration Of EO-based Indicators

Barbara Riedler¹, Johannes Nödel¹, Rosi Siber², Nienke Andriessen², Linda Strande², Stefan Lang¹

¹University of Salzburg, Austria; ²Eawag, Switzerland

E-shape: Fostering And bridging The European Earth Observation Ecosystem

Francesca Piatto

EARSC, Belgium

Remote Sensing As Support To Cartography Of The Quality Of Water At The Prefecture Of Mohammedia (Marroco)

Rachida El Morabet¹, Larbi Bahrazi², Soufiane Bouhafa³

¹faculté des lettre et des sciences humaines Mohammedia Maroc; ²faculté des lettre et des sciences humaines Mohammedia Maroc; ³faculté des lettre et des sciences humaines Mohammedia Maroc

Vegetation Dynamics in African Drylands: A Remote Sensing Based Assessment Using the Vegetation Degradation Index in an Agro-Pastoral Region of Botswana

Felicia Olufunmilayo Akinyemi¹, Margaret O. Kgomo²

¹Universität Bern, Bern, Switzerland; ²Department of Wildlife and National Parks, Serowe, Botswana