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DESCRIPTION:Dr. Thomas Esch (German Aerospace Center - Earth Observation C
 enter)\nFramework: Under the ENAC Incentive Program of Urban Dimension / E
 xploration in Urban Scaling Project\, a series of workshops and lectures t
 oward a scientific view of global urbanization and the built environment.A
 bstract: The ongoing global phenomenon of people migrating to cities is re
 ferred to as urbanization and primarily manifests itself in the continuous
  and often rapid spatial expansion of urban agglomerations. Nevertheless\,
  the dimension and structuring behind this process can be considered as a 
 spatial continuum ranging from rural to urban settlements. Accordingly\, g
 athering a detailed global knowledge about the size\, form (e.g.\, compact
  or spread) and spatial distribution (e.g.\, dispersed or nucleated) of di
 fferent types of settlements represents a major issue to better understand
  urbanization and develop effective mitigation\, adaptation and management
  strategies. The TerraSAR-X add-on for digital elevation measurement (TanD
 EM-X) is a German Earth observation mission collecting a total of two glob
 al coverages of very high resolution (VHR) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) 
 X-band data with a spatial resolution of around three meters in the years 
 2011 to 2013. With these\, the TanDEM-X mission (TDM) provides a unique da
 ta set that is highly valuable for the analysis and monitoring of the glob
 al human settlements pattern.\nThis presentation introduces the basic meth
 odology for a fully-operational detection and delineation of built-up area
 s from VHR SAR data along with a description of the resulting global settl
 ement mask - the Global Urban Footprint (GUF). The GUF shows a high potent
 ial with respect to an analysis of urbanization patterns\, peri-urbanizati
 on\, spatio-temporal dynamics of settlement development as well as populat
 ion estimation\, vulnerability assessment and modeling of global change.Dr
 . Thomas Esch is leader of the “Urban Areas and Land Management” team 
 at DLR-DFD. He received the Diploma degree in applied physical geography f
 rom the University of Trier\, Germany\, in 2003\, and the Ph.D. degree in 
 physical geography and remote sensing from the University of Wuerzburg\, G
 ermany\, in 2006. Between 2006 and 2008 he was a Scientific Employee at th
 e Department of Remote Sensing\, University of Wuerzburg where he was work
 ing on urban remote sensing applications. In 2008\, he was with DLR-DFD an
 d in 2009 he became leader of the “Urban Areas and Land Management” te
 am. He has vast experience in urban remote sensing\, SAR applications\, su
 stainable urban development\, land management\, biodiversity\, energy effi
 ciency and project management. In particular\, he has participated in seve
 ral national and international projects and coordinated the activities for
  the implementation and development of the Global Urban Footprint. Thomas 
 Esch is also Co-Leader of the GEO task SB-04 "Global Urban Observation and
  Information and he published more than 25 papers in international peer-re
 view journals and presented more than 75 research works in workshops and c
 onferences.
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