PUBLICATIONS

Below is the list of all publications over the years published by the team of DEPRIMAP that are directly or indirectly linked to the project.

Journal Articles

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Conference Papers

Understanding Informal Settlement Transformation through Google’s 2.5 Dataset and Street View based Validation

Sai Ganesh Veeravalli, Jan Haas, John Friesen, Stefanos Georganos

In 8th Workshop on Global South at 44th EARSeL Symposium

doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLVIII-M-7-2025-245-2025

Full citation: Veeravalli, S. G., Haas, J., Friesen, J., and Georganos, S.: Understanding Informal Settlement Transformation through Google’s 2.5D Dataset and Street View based Validation, Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., XLVIII-M-7-2025, 245–251, https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLVIII-M-7-2025-245-2025, 2025.

Code repository: https://github.com/saiga143/urban-change-google-25d

Zenodo repository: Veeravalli, S. G. (2025). Codebase for urban change detection in informal settlements using Google’s 2.5D dataset (v1.1). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15269825

DEPRIMAP at EARSeL 2025: Engaging with the Global South through Earth Observation

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.

by Sai Ganesh Veeravalli

on Jun 2

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Workshops

DEPRIMAP at the 2025 Nordic Workshop on AI for Climate Change in Gothenburg

DEPRIMAP participated in the 2025 Nordic Workshop on AI for Climate Change, held in Gothenburg, Sweden. Stefanos Georganos presented on the role of AI and geospatial methods in addressing urban inequality under climate stress, showcasing work on thermal discomfort mapping, population estimation, and infrastructure access in Sub-Saharan African cities. The workshop fostered valuable dialogue across disciplines and opened new doors for Nordic collaborations on AI for urban resilience.

by Sai Ganesh Veeravalli

on May 14

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DEPRIMAP presents new insights on Urban Deprivation at JURSE 2025

At JURSE 2025 in Tunisia, the DEPRIMAP team presented new research on scalable urban deprivation mapping using open geospatial datasets. The study, rooted in collaboration from the 2024 Switzerland workshop, showcased a composite deprivation score framework tested in Nairobi and validated across eight global cities. The presentation introduced extended cross-city comparisons and laid out future directions, including new indicators, refined thresholds, and open-source tools.

by Sai Ganesh Veeravalli

on May 9

DEPRIMAP is a research funded by FORMAS (Swedish Research Council, application 2023-01210) involving KAU (Karlstad University, Sweden)