All over the world, organizations are increasingly considering the adoption of open source
software and open data. In the geospatial domain, this is no different, and the last few …

OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a community-based, freely available, editable map service created
as an alternative to authoritative sources. Given that it is edited mainly by volunteers with …

Roads fragment landscapes and trigger human colonization and degradation of
ecosystems, to the detriment of biodiversity and ecosystem functions. The planet's remaining …

Citizens are increasingly becoming an important source of geographic information,
sometimes entering domains that had until recently been the exclusive realm of authoritative …

Remote sensing image products (eg brightness of nighttime lights and land cover/land use
types) have been widely used to disaggregate census data to produce gridded population …

Remote sensing of nighttime lights has been shown as a good surrogate for estimating
population and economic activity at national and sub-national scales, using DMSP satellites …

Dynamic urban simulations often face three main challenges: 3D digital city generations,
building archetype creations, and inclusions of urban microclimate impacts due to limited …

The typical displacement metric for sea-level rise adaptation planning is property inundation.
However, this metric may underestimate risk as it does not fully capture the wider cascading …

We explored the potential for rapid land use/land cover (LULC) mapping using time-series
Landsat satellite imagery and training data (for supervised classification) automatically …

Data are essential in all areas of geophysics. They are used to better understand and
manage systems, either directly or via models. Given the complexity and spatiotemporal …