The Role of Earth Observation in an Integrated Deprived Area Mapping "System" for Low-to-Middle Income Countries

Abstract: Urbanization in the global South has been accompanied by the proliferation of vast informal and marginalized urban areas that lack access to essential services and infrastructure. UN-Habitat estimates that close to a billion people currently live in these deprived and informal urban settlements, generally grouped under the term of urban slums. Two major knowledge gaps undermine the efforts to monitor progress towards the corresponding sustainable development goal (i.e., SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities). First, the data available for cities worldwide is patchy and insufficient to differentiate between the diversity of urban areas with respect to their access to essential services and their specific infrastructure needs. Second, existing approaches used to map deprived areas (i.e., aggregated household data, Earth observation (EO), and community-driven data collection) are mostly siloed, and, individually, they often lack transferability and scalability and fail to includ

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Veröffentlichungsversion ; begutachtet (peer reviewed) ; In: Remote Sensing ; 12 (2020) 6 ; 1-26

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Mannheim
• (who): SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
• (when): 2020
• Creator: Kuffer, Monika ; Thomson, Dana R. ; Boo, Gianluca ; Mahabir, Ron ; Grippa, Taïs ; Vanhuysse, Sabine ; Engstrom, Ryan ; Robert, Ndugwa ; Makau, Jack ; Darin, Edith ; Albuquerque, João Porto de ; Kabaria, Caroline

Further information

• DOI: 10.3390/rs12060982
• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-74913-0
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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