Detecting changes between the existing building basemaps and newly acquired high spatial resolution remotely sensed (HRS) images is a time-consuming task. This is mainly because of the data labeling and poor performance of hand-crafted features. In t...
A wide range of disciplines require population data with high spatial resolution. In particular, accessibility instruments for active mobility need data on the building access level. Data availability varies by context. Spatially detailed national ce...
The building sector consumes about 40% of the world’s primary energy. Seasonal climatic conditions have a significant effect on the energy consumption in buildings. One of the famous methods used for decoding this seasonal variation in buildings ener...
While governments, researchers, and NGOs are exploring ways to leverage big data sources for sustainable development, household surveys are still a critical source of information for dozens of the 232 indicators for the Sustainable Development Goals...
This paper proposes LTC-Mapping, a method for building object-oriented semantic maps that remain consistent in the long-term operation of mobile robots. Among the different challenges that compromise this aim, LTC-Mapping focuses on two of the more r...
Land cover is one of the essential climate variables of the ESA Climate Change Initiative (CCI). In this context, the Land Cover CCI (LC CCI) project aims at building global land cover maps suitable for climate modeling based on Earth observation...
Many of the standards used to build spatial data infrastructure (SDI), such as Web Map Service (WMS) or Web Feature Service (WFS), have become outdated. They do not follow current web technology development and do not fully exploit its capabilities....
A secure and sustainable building access control system plays a vital role in protecting organisational assets worldwide. Physical access management at Auckland University of Technology (AUT) is still primarily done through traditional card-based aut...
Reliable and up-to-date measurements of public space remain scarce in small and medium-sized towns (SMSTs), where conventional geospatial datasets are often outdated, inconsistent, or inaccessible. This study presents a low-cost and fully reproducibl...
Local journalism is fundamental for a thriving democracy, yet the UK faces a decline in the number of print and digital local news outlets. Large-scale mappings of the surviving outlets offer invaluable insights to policymakers designing intervention...
Seismic retrofitting of reinforced concrete (RC) structures is essential for improving resilience and extending service life, particularly in regions with outdated building codes. However, selecting the optimal retrofitting strategy requires balancin...
Rangelands are critical working landscapes and are the focus of considerable conservation planning efforts globally. A key conservation challenge in these landscapes is that high interannual variability in both climatic conditions and land use greatl...
The preservation of twentieth-century reinforced concrete buildings increasingly requires the integration of structural engineering assessment with heritage conservation principles. Although the deterioration mechanisms of reinforced concrete in mari...
Quantifying industry consumption or production of resources, wastes, emissions, and losses—collectively called flows—is a complex and evolving process. The attribution of flows to industries often requires allocating multiple data sources...
Macau’s aging communities face growing challenges in meeting the needs of older residents due to rising population density and extremely limited land resources. The concentration of outdated residential buildings—home to a substantial old...