GeoWerkstatt February: When cities grow faster than their population

02/07/2025

How does a country's settlement area change in relation to its population? This question is the focus of the project that we are presenting in February. The study area is the Philippines and the analysis spans several decades. The study goes beyond previous methods: in order to support sustainable urban planning, the researchers are developing predictive models by combining satellite data with machine learning/deep learning.

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GeoWerkstatt Project of the Month February 2025

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GeoWerkstatt is published monthly here on this website. Scientists take it in turns to report on their current research projects in the field of geodesy and geoinformatics. The Geodetic Institute (GIH), the Institute of Geodesy (IfE), the Institute of Cartography and Geoinformatics (IKG) and the Institute of Photogrammetry and GeoInformation (IPI) are involved.

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