IN44A:
Boundaries, Buildings, and ’Burbs: Foundational Geospatial Data to Support Sustainable Development, Geohealth, Hazard, and Climate Applications I


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Session ID#: 61386

Session Description:
Detailed spatio-temporal data on administrative units and boundaries, human settlements and infrastructure, population distribution, and land use/land cover are the foundations for more integrated sustainable development, including improved resilience to hazards, climate change, and geohealth threats. Remote sensing data from satellites, drones, and other platforms, transactional and consumer data, and crowd sourcing, together with traditional administrative data sources such as censuses and surveys, provide an increasingly complex and dynamic picture about human activity on the planet. Integrating these diverse data sources in usable ways is challenging, requiring careful attention to different units and scales of analysis, measurement and modeling limitations and assumptions, uncertainties and biases, and other factors. This session will report on efforts to improve generation of high-quality foundational data, promote understanding of the expanding suite of data products, develop intercomparison and validation frameworks, apply these data in diverse public- and private-sector applications, and address access and privacy issues.
Primary Convener:  Robert S Chen, Columbia University of New York, Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia Climate School, Palisades, United States
Conveners:  Deborah Balk, CUNY Institute for Demographic Research, New York, NY, United States, Budhendra L Bhaduri, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States and Forrest R. Stevens, University of Louisville, Dept. of Geographic and Environmental Sciences, Louisville, KY, United States
Primary Liaison:  Robert S Chen, Columbia University of New York, Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia Climate School, Palisades, United States
Chairs:  Deborah Balk, CUNY Institute for Demographic Research, New York, NY, United States and Robert S Chen, Columbia University of New York, Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia Climate School, Palisades, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Deborah Balk, CUNY Institute for Demographic Research, New York, NY, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • GH - GeoHealth
  • NH - Natural Hazards
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

0240 Public health [GEOHEALTH]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1980 Spatial analysis and representation [INFORMATICS]
4330 Vulnerability [NATURAL HAZARDS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Providing today’s data for a better tomorrow (394014)
Anne Hale Miglarese, Washington, DC, United States
Getting the big picture right: integrating ground-based surveys and remote sensing for better data and insights (455027)
Siobhan Murray, World Bank, Development Economics Data Group, Washington, DC, United States, Brian Blankespoor, World Bank Group, Development Economics Data Group, Washington, DC, United States and Talip Kilic, World Bank, Development Economics Data Group, Rome, Italy
An enhanced model for producing high-resolution, global-scale, spatial population scenarios (468019)
Bryan Jones, Baruch College, Marxe School of Public and International Affairs, New York, United States, Deborah Balk, Organization Not Listed, Washington, United States, Stefan Leyk, University of Colorado at Boulder, Geography, Boulder, CO, United States and Mark Montgomery, Population Council, New York, United States
Refugee Camps as Climate Traps: Measuring the Enviro-climatic Marginality of 922 Global Refugee Camps with Satellite Time Series Data (459367)
Jamon Van Den Hoek1, Paulo Murillo-Sandoval2, Ryan Landon Crumley3, Alan Devenish4, Frieda Fein5, Robert E Kennedy2, Stephanie Ichien5, David Wrathall6 and Tyler Harris5, (1)Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States, (2)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environment Sciences, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (4)Oregon State University, College of Earth Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States, (5)Oregon State University, Corvallis, United States, (6)United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan
Secondary Cities: Geospatial Data for Resilience and Sustainability (461930)
Lee Robert Schwartz, US Department of State, Washington, DC, United States
Mapping the Global Settlement Growth from 1985 to 2015 – the World Settlement Footprint Evolution Dataset (408596)
Mattia Marconcini1, Noel Gorelick2, Annekatrin Metz-Marconcini1 and Thomas Esch1, (1)German Aerospace Center DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, Land Surface, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, (2)Google, Mountian View, CA, United States
Image Classification of Urban Neighborhoods Using Textural Features (359832)
Jacob Arndt1, Jeanette Weaver2 and Dalton Lunga2, (1)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Geographic Data Science, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (2)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Fusing Remote Sensing and Demography to Assess which Sub-Saharan African Cities Are Growing the Fastest (412671)
Cascade Tuholske, University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Geography, Santa Barbara, United States and Kelly K Caylor, University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Geography, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Detailed Settlement and Population Mapping: The High Resolution Settlement Layer (467193)
Gregory Yetman, Columbia University, Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Palisades, United States and James Gill, Facebook Connectivity Lab, Boston, MA, United States
Rural Population Mapping at Moderate Spatial Resolutions Using Geospatial Data Fusion (396818)
Amanda Hoffman-Hall, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL, United States, Tatiana V Loboda, University of Maryland, College Park, United States, Joanne Hall, University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States and Mark Carroll, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Data Science Group, Greenbelt, United States

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