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physics.soc-ph2022★ 3 cited

Analyzing urban scaling laws in the United States over 115 years

Keith Burghardt, Johannes H. Uhl, Kristina Lerman +1

The scaling relations between city attributes and population are emergent and ubiquitous aspects of urban growth. Quantifying these relations and understanding their theoretical fo…

physics.soc-ph2022★ 10 cited

Uncertainty prediction of built-up areas from global human settlement data in the United States based on landscape metrics

Johannes H. Uhl, Stefan Leyk

The level of landscape heterogeneity may affect the performance of remote sensing based land use / land cover classification. However, the relationship between mapping accuracy of…

physics.soc-ph2022★ 30 cited

A framework for scale-sensitive, spatially explicit accuracy assessment of binary built-up surface layers

Johannes H. Uhl, Stefan Leyk

To better understand the dynamics of human settlements, thorough knowledge of the uncertainty in geospatial built-up surface datasets is critical. While frameworks for localized ac…

physics.soc-ph2022★ 1 cited

MTBF-33: A multi-temporal building footprint dataset for 33 counties in the United States (1900-2015)

Johannes H. Uhl, Stefan Leyk

Despite abundant data on the spatial distribution of contemporary human settlements, historical data on the long-term evolution of human settlements at fine spatial and temporal gr…

physics.soc-ph2022

Place-level urban-rural indices for the United States from 1930 to 2018

Johannes H. Uhl, Lori M. Hunter, Stefan Leyk +5

Rural-urban classifications are essential for analyzing geographic, demographic, environmental, and social processes across the rural-urban continuum. Most existing classifications…

stat.AP2022★ 1 cited

A fine-grained, versatile index of remoteness to characterize place-level rurality

Johannes H. Uhl, Stefan Leyk, Lori M. Hunter +4

Rural-urban classifications are essential for analyzing geographic, demographic, environmental, or socioeconomic processes across the rural-urban continuum. However, existing count…

cs.CV2022★ 45 cited

Towards the automated large-scale reconstruction of past road networks from historical maps

Johannes H. Uhl, Stefan Leyk, Yao-Yi Chiang +1

Transportation infrastructure, such as road or railroad networks, represent a fundamental component of our civilization. For sustainable planning and informed decision making, a th…