Reflections from the ESA Living Planet Symposium 2025 in Vienna, where global EO experts gathered to discuss data, tools, and policy for a changing planet. This blog highlights key insights, new datasets, and technologies relevant to DEPRIMAP’s mission to map and model urban deprivation across the Global South.
At the 44th EARSeL Symposium in Prague, the DEPRIMAP team actively contributed to the 8th Workshop on Earth Observation for the Global South — a platform dedicated to inclusive and data-driven urban research. Sai Ganesh Veeravalli presented a study on mapping informal settlement change in Nairobi using Google’s 2.5D dataset, now published in the ISPRS Archives. The workshop featured rich interactive sessions, global research exchanges, and forward-looking discussions on slum classification and EO-based monitoring. This blogpost recaps key moments, insights, and DEPRIMAP’s path forward.
DEPRIMAP is a research funded by FORMAS (Swedish Research Council, application 2023-01210) involving KAU (Karlstad University, Sweden)
