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,...

Most volcanic activity is taking place in the oceans. Since the famous eruption of Surtsey (Iceland) in 1963, at least another 23 volcanic islands have appeared. In a new publication titled “Growth and erosion of volcanic islands since 1963 analyzed by multi‑sensor...

The integration of Artificial Intelligence systems into Earth Observation research has catalyzed significant advancements in environmental monitoring, humanitarian response, and urban planning. However, these developments also raise novel regulatory and ethical...

New Publication by EORC and colleagues from the Department of Geoecology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, German Aerospace Center, German University of Technology GUtech, Sultanate of Oman and the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research. Link to...