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Two older people walking on a sidewalk next to a hand holding a map with a city plan, text on the right reads 'Silver Ways Project Testing Age-Friendly Routes in Urban Living Labs'
  • In category: Research
Silver Ways Project: Testing Age-Friendly Routes in Urban Living Labs

The Silver Ways project develops a routing system that is designed for older adults, taking into account their needs and preferences. To understand how seniors move through their neighborhoods, we…

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Hands holding markers and pointing at a map on a table with aerial farmland and urban area in the background
  • In category: Research
New Paper “ACTION: Making Remote Sensing and Volunteered Geographic Information Decision-Ready”
In a new perspective paper, the authors argue that geospatial decision-making suffers from a lack of workflows in which remote sensing (RS) and volunteered geographic information (VGI) meet before a…
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  • In category: Research
New paper “A genus-labeled dataset of individual trees in Baden-Württemberg, Germany”

Trees in settled areas are increasingly recognized as important indicators for sustainability, climate adaptation, and quality of life. However, existing datasets are often incomplete and rarely provide taxonomic information beyond…

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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.
  • In category: Climate Action, Research
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 CO₂ emissions from residential heating in Germany, with results mapped at a 100-meter scale. The tool is part of HeiGIT’s…
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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.
  • In category: Research
Introducing HeiSlime: Street-Level Imagery Mining Engine
HeiSlime is a Python toolbox that uses geographic context to select the few street-level images that are useful for an analysis, before a computer vision model ever sees them….
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the graphic shows three images: a forest fire, drought and a tiger mosquito
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New paper in Nature Human Behaviour “Rising health inequities require looking beyond health systems”
Global health inequity is increasingly driven by the triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution. Addressing this requires placing health at the center of climate and environmental…
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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
  • In category: Research
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 invasive mosquito Aedes albopictus in Germany, this study examines how the effectiveness of control measures on breeding sites is influenced…
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Aerial view of a densely built settlement with scattered small houses near a water body
  • In category: Research
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 problem in many fast-growing cities, but small and scattered amounts of waste are often hard to track. A recent study…
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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.
  • In category: Climate Action, Research
How heat-resilient is cycling infrastructure in European cities?

A new indicator for the Lancet Countdown In Europe, cities are center stage for climate action. With three-quarters of the continent’s population and a majority of both energy demand and…

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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
  • In category: Research
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 spatial planning to map the condition of the rangelands around Töv province and Ulaanbaatar. The resulting maps provide actionable insights…
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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.
  • In category: Research
New paper in Nature Communications “The changing surface of the world’s roads”
The new paper presents the first global, multi-temporal dataset of road pavedness and width, built by applying a deep learning framework to PlanetScope satellite imagery from 2020 and 2024 to…
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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'
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New Paper “Climate-sensitive urban energy poverty indicator framework”
New paper published in Communications Sustainability, editorially selective open-access journal from the Nature Portfolio, presents the Climate-Sensitive Urban Energy Poverty Indicator Framework, which assesses household energy poverty under climate-sensitive urban…
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Indoor plants with sunlight shining through a window and overlaid text about indoor dwelling habitability and systematic review
  • In category: Research
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 there is still no standardized approach for assessing it. This systematic review examines how the concept has evolved, which methods…
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Aerial view of a city with roads highlighted in red and blue overlaid with text 'NEW PAPER Unveiling spatiotemporal mechanisms of urban traffic'
  • In category: Research
New Paper “Unveiling spatiotemporal mechanisms of urban traffic: multi-scale determinants and explainable street-level dynamics of a graph neural network in Berlin”
Public traffic speed data usually cover only some parts of city road networks. In this paper, the authors present a clear framework to estimate missing street-level traffic speeds in Berlin….
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Three hands holding markers drawing green rectangles on printed maps on a table
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New Paper: “Object-Level Detection of Hand-Drawn Annotations in Participatory Sketch Maps Using Paired Clean and Annotated Basemaps”
A new paper presented at the AGILE 2026 conference investigates how hand-drawn annotations in participatory sketch maps can be automatically extracted and digitized. The authors formulate annotation extraction as an…
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New Paper “Detour-based metrics of alcohol availability along walking commutes”
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New Paper: “Detour-based metrics of alcohol availability along walking commutes”
This study introduces detour-based indices for alcohol exposure along walking commutes. Survey data estimate detour budgets to assess path-based availability. Results show how different retail regimes affect exposure, informing effective…
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New Paper: Analysis of the spatial and temporal pattern of COVID-19 incidence rate across Germany
  • In category: Research
New Paper: “Analysis of the spatial and temporal pattern of COVID-19 incidence rate across Germany”
This study analyzes five socio-economic factors shaping COVID-19 incidence rates across the 400 German districts. A regression analysis using spatial eigenvector mapping indicates that socio-economic factors might influence incidence less…
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Rural landscape with sparse trees, huts, and dry soil under a cloudy sky
  • In category: Geoinformation for Humanitarian Aid, Research
New Paper: “Food Insecurity Projections for Anticipatory Action: Comparative Spatiotemporal Analysis of FEWS NET and the IPC in Somalia”
Food insecurity projections are a central component of anticipatory action frameworks, particularly in drought contexts. Presented at the AGILE 2026 conference, this paper compares FEWS NET and IPC food insecurity…
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the graphic shows an areal view of a landscape
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New paper “Guiding Deep Learning with Landscape Metrics for LULC Mapping Applications”

Deep Learning (DL) has become a core methodological pillar in remote sensing and GeoAI, enabling large-scale applications such as Land Use Land Cover (LULC) mapping, object detection, and spatiotemporal prediction….

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Water surface with plants in the foreground and agricultural field
  • In category: Geoinformation for Humanitarian Aid, Research
New Paper “From Flood Risk to Caloric Loss: Compound Flood Impacts on Agriculture in Madagascar”
This study is based on Celina Thomé’s master thesis. It was presented at the ISCRAM 2026 conference, where it added to conversations about using data-driven methods to improve crisis management,…
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