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20202026
most citedMobile phone data and COVID-19: Missing an opportunity?

106 citations · 121 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.CY2026

A global mobile network coverage raster product at 1km resolution, 1999--2030

Till Koebe, Theophilus Aidoo, Ali El Chami +5

Where a mobile signal is available shapes who can work, learn, bank, seek health care and respond to crises in the digital age, yet no globally consistent, sub-national record of m…

physics.soc-ph2026

No one likes it hot, but hotter cities adjust by staying active later

Andrew Renninger, Till Koebe, Ingmar Weber

Extreme heat suppresses urban activity, but its effects need not be uniform across climates or across the day. Using data on activity at points of interest in 20 cities spanning te…

q-bio.PE2026

Reply To: Global Gridded Population Datasets Systematically Underrepresent Rural Population by Josias Láng-Ritter et al

Till Koebe, Emmanuel Letouzé, Tuba Bircan +3

The paper titled ''Global gridded population datasets systematically underrepresent rural population'' by Josias Láng-Ritter et al. provides a valuable contribution to the discours…

cs.LG2025

A Global Dataset of Location Data Integrity-Assessed Reforestation Efforts

Angela John, Selvyn Allotey, Till Koebe +2

Afforestation and reforestation are popular strategies for mitigating climate change by enhancing carbon sequestration. However, the effectiveness of these efforts is often self-re…

cs.CV2025

A Weak Supervision Learning Approach Towards an Equitable Mobility Estimation

Theophilus Aidoo, Till Koebe, Akansh Maurya +2

The scarcity and high cost of labeled high-resolution imagery have long challenged remote sensing applications, particularly in low-income regions where high-resolution data are sc…

cs.CY2025

Coverage Biases in High-Resolution Satellite Imagery

Vadim Musienko, Axel Jacquet, Ingmar Weber +1

Satellite imagery is increasingly used to complement traditional data collection approaches such as surveys and censuses across scientific disciplines. However, we ask: Do all plac…

cs.CY2023

Unveiling Local Patterns of Child Pornography Consumption in France using Tor

Till Koebe, Zinnya del Villar, Brahmani Nutakki +2

Child pornography represents a severe form of exploitation and victimization of children, leaving the victims with emotional and physical trauma. In this study, we aim to analyze l…

cs.CY2022

Releasing survey microdata with exact cluster locations and additional privacy safeguards

Till Koebe, Alejandra Arias-Salazar

Household survey programs around the world publish fine-granular georeferenced microdata to support research on the interdependence of human livelihoods and their surrounding envir…

stat.AP2021★ 6 cited

Intercensal updating using structure-preserving methods and satellite imagery

Till Koebe, Alejandra Arias-Salazar, Natalia Rojas-Perilla +1

Censuses are fundamental building blocks of most modern-day societies, yet collected every ten years at best. We propose an extension of the widely popular census updating techniqu…

cs.CY2020★ 106 cited

Mobile phone data and COVID-19: Missing an opportunity?

Nuria Oliver, Emmanuel Letouzé, Harald Sterly +21

This paper describes how mobile phone data can guide government and public health authorities in determining the best course of action to control the COVID-19 pandemic and in asses…

cs.CY2020★ 9 cited

Better coverage, better outcomes? Mapping mobile network data to official statistics using satellite imagery and radio propagation modelling

Till Koebe

Mobile sensing data has become a popular data source for geo-spatial analysis, however, mapping it accurately to other sources of information such as statistical data remains a cha…