Expertise

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

    • Metropolitan Area
    • Map
    • Area
    • Model
    • Cartography
    • Sentinel-2
    • Datum
  • Computer Science

    • User

Organisations

Publications

2024

Towards a scalable and transferable approach to map deprived areas using Sentinel-2 images and machine learning (2024)Computers, environment and urban systems, 109, 102075. Article 102075. Owusu, M., Nair, A., Jafari, A., Thomson, D., Kuffer, M. & Engstrom, R.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2024.102075Large area mapping of urban deprivation from Sentinel-2 and Google Open Buildings using deep learning (2024)In IGARSS 2024 : 2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (pp. 1567-1570) (Proceedings International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS); Vol. 2024). IEEE. Engstrom, R., Owusu, M., Hanna, M., Jafari, A., Thomson, D. R. & Kuffer, M.https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS53475.2024.10640635

2023

Mapping Deprived Urban Areas Using Open Geospatial Data and Machine Learning in Africa (2023)Urban Science, 7(4). Article 116. Owusu, M., Engstrom, R., Thomson, D., Kuffer, M. & Mann, M. L.https://doi.org/10.3390/urbansci7040116Evaluating the Ability to Use Contextual Features to Map Deprived Areas 'Slums' in Multiple Cities (2023)In IGARSS 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Proceedings (pp. 3620-3623) (International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS); Vol. 2023-July). IEEE. Engstrom, R., Owusu, M., Nair, A., Jafari, A., Thomson, D. & Kuffer, M.https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS52108.2023.10282954

2022

The missing millions in maps: Exploring causes of uncertainties in global gridded population datasets (2022)ISPRS international journal of geo-information, 11(7), 1-18. Article 403. Kuffer, M., Owusu, M., Oliveira, L., Sliuzas, R. & Rijn, F. v.https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi11070403

2021

Is it all the same? Mapping and characterizing deprived urban areas using WorldView-3 superspectral imagery: A case study in Nairobi, Kenya (2021)Remote sensing, 13(24). Article 4986. Georganos, S., Abascal, A., Kuffer, M., Wang, J., Owusu, M., Wolff, E. & Vanhuysse, S.https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13244986Geo-ethics in slum mapping (2021)In 2021 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS (pp. 5700-5703) (IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS); Vol. 2021). IEEE. Owusu, M., Kuffer, M., Belgiu, M., Grippa, T., Lennert, M., Georganos, S. & Vanhuysse, S.https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS47720.2021.9553570Spatial information gaps on deprived urban areas (slums) in low-and-middle-income-countries: A user-centered approach (2021)Urban Science, 5(4), 1-20. Article 72. Kuffer, M., Wang, J., Thomson, D. R., Georganos, S., Abascal, A., Owusu, M. & Vanhuysse, S.https://doi.org/10.3390/urbansci5040072Towards user-driven earth observation-based slum mapping (2021)Computers, environment and urban systems, 89, 101681. Article 101681. Owusu, M., Kuffer, M., Belgiu, M., Grippa, T., Lennert, M., Georganos, S. & Vanhuysse, S.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2021.101681

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