Publications




Papers & Book chapters

Abascal, A., Georganos, S., Kuffer, M., Vanhuysse, S., Thomson, D., Wang, J., Manyasi, L., Otunga, D.M., Ochieng, B., Ochieng, T., Klinnert, J., Wolff, E., 2024. Making Urban Slum Population Visible: Citizens and Satellites to Reinforce Slum Censuses, in: Kuffer, M., Georganos, S. (Eds.), Urban Inequalities from Space: Earth Observation Applications in the Majority World. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 287–302. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49183-2_14

Kabiru, P., Kuffer, M., Sliuzas, R., Vanhuysse, S., 2023. The relationship between multiple hazards and deprivation using open geospatial data and machine learning. Nat Hazards. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-023-05897-z

Kuffer, M., Abascal, A., Vanhuysse, S., Georganos, S., Wang, J., Thomson, D.R., Boanada, A., Roca, P., 2023. Data and Urban Poverty: Detecting and Characterising Slums and Deprived Urban Areas in Low- and Middle-Income Countries, in: Mustak, Sk., Singh, D., Srivastava, P.K. (Eds.), Advanced Remote Sensing for Urban and Landscape Ecology. Springer Nature Singapore, Singapore, pp. 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-3006-7_1

Sampson, S.A., Abascal, A., Wang, J., Vanhuysse, S., Rodríguez Carreño, I., Garcia Ruiz, I., Kuffer, M., 2025. Using Low-Cost Sensors and Citizen Science: Assessing Thermal Inequality in African Slums. The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences XLVIII-M-7–2025, 229–236. https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLVIII-M-7-2025-229-2025

Vanhuysse, S., Kuffer, M., Georganos, S., Wang, J., Abascal, A., Grippa, T., Wolff, E., 2024. Putting the Invisible on the Map: Low-Cost Earth Observation for Mapping and Characterizing Deprived Urban Areas (Slums), in: Kuffer, M., Georganos, S. (Eds.), Urban Inequalities from Space: Earth Observation Applications in the Majority World. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 119–137. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49183-2_7

Wang, J., Fleischmann, M., Venerandi, A., Romice, O., Kuffer, M., Porta, S., 2023. EO + Morphometrics: Understanding cities through urban morphology at large scale. Landscape and Urban Planning 233, 104691. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2023.104691

Conference papers

Abascal, A., Wang, J., Kuffer, M., Georganos, S., Vanhuysse, S., 2024. Heat Exposure of Deprivation Through Air Temperature Modelling, in: IGARSS 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. Presented at the IGARSS 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, pp. 1156–1159. https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS53475.2024.10640489

Govoorts, J., Grippa, T., Vanhuysse, S., Wolff, E., 2023. Mapping urban deprivation from Sentinel 1/2 using artificial intelligence and weakly labelled data, in: 2023 Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event (JURSE). Presented at the 2023 Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event (JURSE), pp. 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1109/JURSE57346.2023.10144169

Kuffer, M., 2025. Urban Inequalities from Space - Integrating Earth Observation with Local Knowledge in a Rapidly Urbanizing World, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Remote Sensing (ICARS 2025), Barcelona, 26–28 March 2025, MDPI: Basel, Switzerland. https://sciforum.net/paper/view/21574

Vanhuysse, S., Abascal, A., Georganos, S., Wang, J., Kuffer, M., 2024. ONEKANA: Modelling Thermal Inequalities in African Cities, in: IGARSS 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. Presented at the IGARSS 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, pp. 1571–1575. https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS53475.2024.10641265

Vanhuysse, S., Abascal, A., Wang, J., Georganos, S., Kuffer, M., Wolff, E., 2024. Semi-Supervised ‘Soft’ Extraction of Urban Types Associated with Deprivation, in: IGARSS 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. Presented at the IGARSS 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, pp. 1581–1584. https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS53475.2024.10642280

Posters

Kuffer M., Vanhuysse S., Georganos S., Abascal A., Wang J., Sampson S., 2024. ONEKANA: Modelling thermal inequalities in African urban areas through EO and AI for enhanced climate resilience.
URBIS24, ESA-ESRIN, Frascati, Italy.

Sampson S.A., Abascal A., Wang J., Vanhuysse S., Rodriguez Carreño I., Kuffer M., 2025. Integrating Citizen Science and Earth Observation Data in detecting thermal inequality in African slums.. Global Early Warnings for All Multi-Stakeholder Forum, World Meteorological Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland.

Vanhuysse S., Kuffer M., Georganos S., Abascal A, Wang J., Sampson S., Oliveira L., Wolff E., 2024. EO and AI for more resilient and equitable cities in Africa: Characterising Deprived Urban Areas. EO for Africa Symposium 2024, ESA-ESRIN, Frascati, Italy.



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