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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…
Paved or unpaved? A Deep Learning derived Road Surface Global Dataset from Mapillary Street-View Imagery
Sukanya Randhawa, Eren Aygun, Guntaj Randhawa +3
We have released an open dataset with global coverage on road surface characteristics (paved or unpaved) derived utilising 105 million images from the world's largest crowdsourcing…