Urban Inequalities from Space Earth Observation Applications in the Majority World

We will provide methodological and application pathways in support of local and national information needs as well as in support of sustainable development, and specifically, supporting the monitoring of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The book combines an overview of innovations in app...

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Other Authors: Kuffer, Monika (Editor), Georganos, Stefanos (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2024, 2024
Edition:1st ed. 2024
Series:Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter1. Introduction
  • Part1: Global Analysis. chapter 2. Integration of remote and social sensing data reveals uneven quality of broadband connectivity across world cities
  • Chapter3. Detecting inequalities from Earth Observation derived global societal variables
  • Chapter4. The State of the Streets: Measurements of connectivity in the Atlas of Urban Expansion
  • Chapter5. Urban and peri-urban? Investigation of the location of informal settlements using two databases
  • Part2. Urban Deprivation. Chapter 6. Integration of Datasets Towards Slum Identification: Local Implementation of the IDEAMAPS Framework
  • Chapter7. Putting the invisible on the map: Low-cost Earth Observation for mapping and characterizing deprived urban areas (‘slums’)
  • Chapter8. The Impact of Respondents' Background Towards Slum Conceptualisations and Transferability Measurement of Remote-Sensing Based Slum Detections. Case Study: Jakarta, Indonesia
  • Chapter9.Part3: Temporal Analysis. Chapter10.Reconstructing 36 years of spatiotemporal dynamics of slums in Brazil by integrating EO and census data
  • Chapter11. Assessing the impact of Addis Ababa’s successive urban policies on farmland loss, food insecurity and economic inequalities using earth observation data (1986 – 2022)
  • Part4. Socioeconomic Mapping and Ecosystem services. Chapter 12. A mixed method approach to estimate intra-urban distribution of GDP in conditions of data scarcity
  • Chapter 13. Ecosystem Services from Space as Evaluation Metric of Human Well-being in Deprived Urban Areas of the Majority World
  • Chapter14. Making Urban Slum Population Visible: Citizens and Satellites to reinforce slum censuses.