Urban and regional planning increasingly relies on geospatial technologies to support evidence-based decision-making. Within the European research project FUTURAL – Empowering the Future of Rural Regions, researchers at the Earth Observation Center (EOC) of the...

It is known that urban form and function are closely related. Beyond this, in a new study, empirical proof reveals how urban form and function are associated with urban discourse. In the new publication titled “Are urban form and function related to urban discourse?...

Reliable and up-to-date sub-national data on the gross domestic product (GDP) data remain scarce in many regions across the globe. However, in a new study we show how high-resolution GDP estimates can be derived from multisource remote sensing and auxiliary inputs...

The availability of social media data and tools to (semi-)automatically analyse them has sparked research in various fields to assess human behaviour, opinions and attitudes on a global scale. In a new paper titled "Integrating Corpus Linguistics and NLP Methods to...

The acoustic perception of urban environments contributes a lot to well-being in cities. In a new publication titled "Der Einfluss morphologischer und ökologischer Variablen auf die menschliche Wahrnehmung der Klanglandschaft in städtischen Gebieten in Würzburg,...