5 papers
Open-access model for detecting openly dumped dispersed municipal solid waste from crowdsourced UAV imagery in Sub-Saharan Africa
Steffen Knoblauch, Ram Kumar Muthusamy, Luis M. A. Bettencourt +8
Managing municipal solid waste in rapidly urbanizing Sub-Saharan Africa remains challenging due to dispersed informal dumping and limited high-resolution datasets for spatial monit…
Automated Road Crack Localization for Spatially Guided Highway Maintenance
Steffen Knoblauch, Ram Kumar Muthusamy, Pedram Ghamisi +1
Highway networks are crucial for economic prosperity. Climate change-induced temperature fluctuations are exacerbating stress on road pavements, resulting in elevated maintenance c…
AI-based Waste Mapping for Addressing Climate-Exacerbated Flood Risk
Steffen Knoblauch, Levi Szamek, Iddy Chazua +3
Urban flooding is a growing climate change-related hazard in rapidly expanding African cities, where inadequate waste management often blocks drainage systems and amplifies flood r…
Assessing Building Heat Resilience Using UAV and Street-View Imagery with Coupled Global Context Vision Transformer
Steffen Knoblauch, Ram Kumar Muthusamy, Hao Li +4
Climate change is intensifying human heat exposure, particularly in densely built urban centers of the Global South. Low-cost construction materials and high thermal-mass surfaces…
The changing surface of the world's roads
Sukanya Randhawa, Guntaj Randhawa, Clemens Langer +6
Resilient road infrastructure is a cornerstone of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Yet a primary indicator of network functionality and resilience is critically lacking: a com…