DEPRIMAP Work highlighted at Human Planet Forum 2025

Our work on ‘The Hidden Burden of Morphological Deprivation in Small and Medium Cities‘ was highlighted by our collaborators at Human Planet Forum 2025 held at Ispra, Italy, on 19-20 Nov 2025

First, it was presented by Dr. Dana R. Thomson, who highlighted the utility of the City Segments v1 dataset, one of the inputs to our manuscript.

Thomson presented the recently released City Segments Layer v1 in the session on “Open Data Integration and Human Settlement Characterization,” chaired by Yetman. This dataset, which included classification of neighborhood-scale city segments by poverty status, was cited several times in other sessions on Earth Observation (EO) and data to map urban poverty and informality. Discussions in this session underscored the need for interoperable, decision-ready maps on poverty and featured case studies from UN-Habitat, IDB, and academic partners demonstrating how EO-driven insights can better reflect lived realities of informal and underserved neighborhoods.

You can watch the streamed video here: https://webcast.ec.europa.eu/geo-human-planet-forum-2025-25-11-19

Second, Dr. Monika Kuffer highlighted our work while discussing how IDEABench data (our second input data) was used as benchmark data for training models to understand morphological deprivation characteristics of neighbourhoods.

She also presented the network of projects that are working on deprived urban areas, of which DEPRIMAP is also a part.

You can watch the streamed video here: https://webcast.ec.europa.eu/geo-human-planet-forum-2025-25-11-20

We once again thank our collaborators for highlighting our work and our project at the Human Planet Forum 2025.