Since the advent of the openly accessible Sentinel satellite data as part of the Copernicus programme of the European Commission and ESA, massive amounts of sat

The use of remote sensors for human settlement mapping and monitoring holds great promise for numerous fields of study, including urban planning and global envi

Monitoring with high resolution land cover and especially of urban areas is a key task that is more and more required in a number of applications (urban plannin

The ESM_2015 is the latest release of the European Settlement Map (ESM) produced in the frame of the Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL) project. It is produce

More than half of the world population now lives in cities, and urban expansion continues as rural people move to cities. This results in the loss of land for o