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SUMMARY:Does distance bring clarity? – Remotely sensing cities
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DESCRIPTION:Dr Hannes Taubenbock\, Earth Observation Center\, German Remot
 e Sensing Data Center\, Geo-Risks and Civil Security\, German Aerospace Ce
 nter DLR\, Wessling (DE)\nAbstract:\nOur world is transforming rapidly int
 o a global urban society. We are facing a multitude of challenges due to t
 he fact that the entire global future population growth will virtually be 
 absorbed by cities. While we are aware of this development\, we only know 
 little on the spatial dimensions of urbanization. Earth observation provid
 es us with new spatial data to measure and analyze these ongoing dramatic 
 changes of the urban landscape. Against this background\, this seminar wil
 l discuss the capabilities and limitations of urban remote sensing to addr
 ess the pestering challenges of this aspect of global change. The presenta
 tion will give an overview from mapping settlement patterns at global to l
 ocal scales to monitoring of spatial urban growth\, analysis of structural
  urban types and their spatial arrangement in cities to multi-disciplinary
  studies such as population assessment or risk assessment based on Earth o
 bservation data. This presentation aims to start discussions or find innov
 ative ideas on new collaborative capabilities with Earth observation for m
 ulti-disciplinary scientific value adding.Dr Hannes Taubenböck received h
 is diploma degree in geography from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Muni
 ch (Germany) in 2004. He joined the German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD
 ) at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in 2005. After receiving the Ph.D. 
 from the Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg\, Germany\, in 2008\, 
 his research activities as post-doc at the University of Würzburg (2007
 –2010) concentrated on the development of algorithms for information ext
 raction from multi-sensoral remotely sensed data. He is lecturing at the U
 niversity of Würzburg since 2009. In 2010 he returned as scientific emplo
 yee to DLR-DFD. Today he heads the team "Modeling and geostatistic methods
 " in the department Georisks & Civil Security of DLR focusing on the topic
 s ‘urbanization’ and ‘risk’.
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