Automated Building Damage Classification using Remotely Sensed Data: Case study: Hurricane Damage on St. Maarten

In the second half of the 20th and beginning of the 21st century the amount of natural disasters has increased rapidly. Due to this rise in occurrences, more people are affected. An important indicator for people affected is the amount of damage to buildings. To gather this information aid workers now have to go into the field to gather data on...

Geographically weighted Urban Heat Island modelling using the Netatmo sensors: The case of the Hague

The continuously increasing population within cities imposes the future challenges related to planning and managing the sustainable environment, where people’s health and wellbeing is prioritized. Currently more than half of the world’s population live in cities which results in the rise of the human footprint, affecting the local climate....

A spatio-temporal method for impact assessment: Case study of the impact of organic waste collection system scenarios in Amsterdam

Amsterdam circular economy ambitions raise the question of what would be the impact of an organic waste collection system on inhabitants. Impact is an effect of a source on a receptor. Existing impact modelling studies describe impact either from source or from receptor perspective. In spatial planning, both source and receptor are variant over...