A new research paper has been published in Applied Geography on global morphologic categorization of living environments of the urban poor. This is an empirical baseline study of physical building types and structural patterns of cities. A building models for living places of the urban poor (such as slums, etc.) was developed using spatial characteristics allowing to characterize settlement structures. read the full article here (open access): https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0143622817309955
Enhancing LiDAR-Based Forest Analysis: A Successful Field Day in the Spessart
Last week, students and scientific staff from the Earth Observation Research Cluster and the Physical Geography took part in an exciting field day in the Spessart (Lower Franconia, Bavaria) to gather additional data for LiDAR-based tree segmentation and forest...
