urban mapping Archives

Urban trees provide many benefits such as absorbing heat, filtering pollution, and absorbing carbon dioxide from the air. Photo: Willow Oak in City Park, USGS, public domain.

Google Launches AI powered Tree Canopy Lab

January 13, 2021 by Katarina Samurović

Google is using artificial intelligence to develop maps of tree canopy from its aerial imagery.

Urban heat map from data captured during the summer of 2018 in Richmond, VA. Source: NOAA.

Mapping Urban Heat

August 3, 2020 by Elizabeth Borneman

Lead by Portland State University professor Vivek Shandas, a network of citizen volunteers and local organizations are mapping urban heat islands in more detail than ever before.

The world settlement footprint, created in a online application called Urban Thematic Exploration Platform (TEP) sponsored by the European Space Agency (ESA), is the first map that combines optical and radar satellites to create a human urban footprint map of the world.

GIS, Data Preservation, and Gentrification

March 19, 2018 by Olivia Harne

Olivia Harne discusses how smart planning that incorporates GIS needs to take into account the historic identity of gentrifying neighborhoods.

Mapping Air Pollution

July 11, 2013December 30, 2011 by Caitlin Dempsey

Pulling real time data from the city government of Madrid, Into the Air is a project led by Nerea Calvillo (along with a team of architectural students, … Read more