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ohsome 2.0 has arrived

We have recently released the version 2.0 of the ohsome…

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Disaster Risk Composer: A Dashboard for Multi-Hazard Risk Assessments in Anticipatory Action

Disaster Risk Composer: A Dashboard for Multi-Hazard Risk Assessments in Anticipatory Action

The new Disaster Risk Composer makes multi-hazard risk assessment faster…
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New paper “A genus-labeled dataset of individual trees in Baden-Württemberg, Germany”

Trees in settled areas are increasingly recognized as important indicators…

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openrouteservice 10.0.0 “Amalthea” release

We are announcing the major release of openrouteservice with version…

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Cover announcing a new paper on a high-resolution residential heating emissions tool using open data, set against colorful steep-roofed houses and distant cathedral spires under a cloudy sky.

New paper “Residential heating emissions tool in the Climate Action Navigator: High-resolution estimation based on open data”

A new paper presents an open-source tool that estimates direct…
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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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Aerial view of an urban area with buildings, roads, parked cars, and trees

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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Group of four people walking on a paved path with one person holding a bicycle and another pointing ahead

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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View of a densely packed informal settlement with small houses and the text 'NEW PAPER Climate-sensitive urban energy poverty indicator framework'

New Paper “Climate-sensitive urban energy poverty indicator framework”

New paper published in Communications Sustainability, editorially selective open-access journal…
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View from a vehicle driving on a dirt road in a rural area with houses and people visible alongside the road

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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