Organizers: Developing Countries SIG Chairs Monika Kuffer, University of Twente, ITC, Enschede, The Netherlands (SIG Chairs Developing Countries) and Stefanos Georganos Division of Geoinformatics, KTH, Stockholm.
Date:14 September, 2022
Workshop's Summary Rapid transformation processes occur in the Global South, impacting natural habitats, rural, peri-urban and urban areas. In particular, low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have accelerated economic growth combined with rapid conversion of natural habitats. The newly emerging human settlements exhibit varying degrees of inequalities in terms of access to basic infrastructure and essential services. Moreover, local environmental conditions can have severe impacts on living conditions and health outcomes. To adequately monitor these transformation processes, timely and spatially disaggregated data are essential but often not available. Earth Observation (EO) data can provide immense opportunities for monitoring these transformations, but several challenges, pertaining to their use, need to be tackled. First, EO data need to be provided with sufficient spatial and temporal granularity. Second, the development of innovative, transferable and scalable mapping approaches both with respect to the methods and data are imperative. Third, FAIR (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability) data standards are important to support easy access and exchange of data and methods. The thematic workshop will allow researchers to exchange on state-of-the-art EO methods to analyse transformation processes in the Global South (e.g., environmental risk, hazards, urbanisation, demographic and socio-economic conditions, conservation, agriculture), while enabling their integration for evidence-based policy making (e.g., SDGs). As technologies, available data, and computing power rapidly evolve, new opportunities are emerging to co-create and integrate data (e.g., citizen science). We must ensure that these approaches are inclusive, result in benefits to all stakeholders, and that we have mitigated unintended consequences for the most vulnerable populations.
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Topics:
- Urban or rural poverty modelling (e.g., deprived urban areas, slums)
- Natural hazards, vulnerabilities, resilience and climate change in the Global South
- Socioconomic, demographic and health mapping in the Global South
- Urbanization in the Global South: Urban growth, urban land consumption rates and temporal dynamics
- Agricultural monitoring and applications in the Global South
- Natural resource management and monitoring in the Global South
- Urban morphology and infrastructure in the Global South
- Land use/ and cover mapping in the Global South
- Urban environment (climate, air, water and land) and their dynamics at various scales in the Global South
- Sustainable Development Goals and Earth Observation
Scientific Committee
- Monika Kuffer, University of Twente
- Stefanos Georganos, KTH
- Jon Wang, University of Twente
- Caroline Gevaert, University of Twente
- Eleonore Wolff, Free University of Brussels
- Sabine Vanhuysse, Free University of Brussels
- Angela Abascal, University of Navarra
- Nicholus Mboga, Free University of Brussels
- Tais Grippa, Free University of Brussels
- Claudio Persello, University of Twente
- Jasper de Vliet, VU Amsterdam
- Catherine Linard, University of Namur
- Yifang Ban, KTH
- Oscar Brousse, University College London
- Frank Canters, Free University of Brussels
- Michael Wurm, German Aerospace Center
- Mariana Belgiu, University of Twente
- Matthias Demuzere, Ruhr University of Bochum
- Joana Barros, Birkbeck - University of London
- Andrea Nascetti, KTH
- Ron Mahabir, George Mason University
- Elnaz Neinavaz, University of Twente
- Aguilar Bolivar, University of Twente
- Mila Koeva, University of Twente
- Divyani Kohli, University of Twente
- Christian Geiss, German Aerospace Center