Seminar series #5: Earth Observation Images and Intelligent Methods in Developing Building Footprint Inventories: A Sustainable City Planning Lens

Sustainable city planning and optimal land use design are becoming challenges considering environmental sustainability, urban growth, and citizen science. Earth observation images contribute significantly to prepare accurate inventories of buildings and their varieties in addressing such challenges. However, despite the efforts to design and manage urban buildings using Earth Observation images, a significant knowledge gap exists in developing the spatial building ecosystem of current urban building management system. This presentation aims to bridge that gap by developing analytics on representative urban building footprint datasets, with a particular focus on improving data quality. For example, the off-nadir imagery, omission/commission errors, and positional. Traditionally, building footprint datasets are generated either independently or in collaboration with public and private organizations to enhance urban community life. However, these datasets often suffer from the aforementioned issues, which need to be addressed to improve urban policy making. The analytics provide valuable insights and the propose a comprehensive spatial building ecosystem, helping to establish an operational framework for urban infrastructure by leveraging Earth observation images and intelligent methods to support sustainable city planning.

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