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the graphic shows two images from the panoramax: 1. unpaved road surrounded by greenery; 2. overview of the distribution of the SLI.

Introducing HeiSlime: Street-Level Imagery Mining Engine

HeiSlime is a Python toolbox that uses geographic context to…
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the graphic shows three images: a forest fire, drought and a tiger mosquito

New paper in Nature Human Behaviour “Rising health inequities require looking beyond health systems”

Global health inequity is increasingly driven by the triple planetary…
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Two Tools for Shade-Aware Urban Planning

Free, high-resolution shade data for European cities, together with two…
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Map showing residential area in Pfaffengrund, Heidelberg, with building size classes marked in different colors and private plots and leisure areas indicated

New paper “Effects of urban building structures on the distribution of Aedes albopictus in Pfaffengrund, Heidelberg”

In response to the increasing abundance and spread of the…
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What Makes a Place Walkable? Expanding the Way We Measure Walkability 

​​What makes a place walkable goes beyond ​​whether​​ a footpath…
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Aerial view of a densely built settlement with scattered small houses near a water body

New paper “Open-access model for detecting openly dumped dispersed municipal solid waste from crowdsourced UAV imagery in Sub-Saharan Africa”

Openly dumped waste is a serious environmental and public health…
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title: "How heat-resilient is cycling infrastructure in European cities? A new indicator for the Lancet Countdown". The graphic also shows a cycling road exposed to the sun.

How heat-resilient is cycling infrastructure in European cities?

A new indicator for the Lancet Countdown In Europe, cities…

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Hexagonal photo of Mongolian rangelands with yurts and a river next to a hexagonal map showing land degradation in various colors

GeoAI for Land Degradation, Climate Resilience and Sustainable Development in Mongolia’s Rangelands

We combined Earth observation, an innovative custom-built deep-learning model, and…
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unpaved road on the right; Qualitative examples of model performance on Planet imagery on the left. the graphic is used to illustrate a new pablication in the nature communications journal.

New paper in Nature Communications “The changing surface of the world’s roads”

The new paper presents the first global, multi-temporal dataset of…
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New Paper “Climate-sensitive urban energy poverty indicator framework”

New paper published in Communications Sustainability, editorially selective open-access journal…
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Collecting Street-Level Imagery in Mozambique to Advance Sustainable Development and Humanitarian Logistics

HeiGIT and Data4MOZ have launched a collaboration to collect street-level…
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New Paper “Indoor Dwelling Habitability: Conceptual Evolution, Methods, and Key Variables from a Systematic Review”

Indoor dwelling habitability affects health, comfort, and housing performance, but…
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Looking Back at the #30DayMapChallenge 2025

Every November, the #30DayMapChallenge encourages people around the world to…

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Map with blue and purple shaded areas and black dots on the right and red network lines on the bottom right with text 'Looking Back at the #30DayMapChallenge 2024' on the left

Looking Back at the #30DayMapChallenge 2024

Each November, the #30DayMapChallenge invites people worldwide to create and…

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Advancing GeoAI through International Collaboration

HeiGIT recently welcomed Prof. Dr. Wenwen Li and Prof. Dr….
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Sunlight filtering through large trees lining a city street with people walking and vehicles moving

When tree shade points the way

Analysis tool shows where shade already exists and where trees…
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