Urban Remote Sensing

Tomohiro OdaTomohiro Oda is an Earth Scientist at the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. He studied man‐made carbon emissions using computer modeling and remote sensing techniques. He is a pioneer of the satellite‐based high‐spatial‐resolution CO 2emission mapping and is the Principal Developer of the ODIAC global CO 2emission model. He currently serves as a Principal Investigator for multiple projects funded by NASA Earth Science programs and as a science team member of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory mission. He is an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, University of Maryland, College Park.

Akpona OkujeniAkpona Okujeni is a Postdoctoral Scientist at the Earth Observation Lab of the Humboldt‐Universität zu Berlin, Germany. He received his Diplom (MSc equivalent) and PhD degrees in Geography from Humboldt‐Universitat zu Berlin. His scientific research focuses on bridging environmental applications and remote sensing techniques to map and monitor land systems under global change, especially in the field of imaging spectroscopy and multispectral time series analysis.

Xiaoying OuyangXiaoying Ouyang received her PhD in Cartography and Geographical Information Systems from the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, in 2010. She is currently a Research Assistant Scientist with the Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Her research interests include retrievals and validations of complex land surface parameters and time series analysis of land surface parameters.

Ian PaynterIan Paynter is an Associate Research Scientist at the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) Earth from Space Institute (EfSI), and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) Earth Sciences. He graduated from the University of Wales Aberystwyth with a degree in Zoology, completed a master’s degree in Marine Science and Technology and a PhD in Environmental Science at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He has worked with various remote sensing technologies and applications, focusing on lidar and hyperspectral observations for ecology.

Claudio PerselloClaudio Persello is an Associate Professor in the Department of Earth Observation Science (EOS), Faculty of Geo‐Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), the University of Twente, Netherlands. His main research interests are on the analysis of remotely sensed data, machine learning, image classification, and pattern recognition. He is currently working on the analysis of images acquired by Unmanned Airborne Vehicles (UAVs) for monitoring urban areas.

Karin PfefferKarin Pfeffer obtained her PhD in Physical Geography from the Utrecht University (Netherlands) in 2003. She then worked at the University of Amsterdam (Social Sciences) before her appointment as a Full Professor at ITC, University of Twente (Netherlands) in 2017. She uses geographic information technologies for investigating critical urban issues such as deprived settlements or environmental vulnerabilities. She also investigates how research can engage with the development of new urban planning practices and address issues of urban sustainability. She has participated in NWO and EU‐funded research programs on spatial information infrastructures, spatial knowledge management, and deprived settlement dynamics.

Frederik PriemFrederik Priem received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Geography, with a specialization in GIS and Remote Sensing, at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He worked as a researcher on the BELSPO funded UrbanEARS and GENLIB projects at the same institute. His research interests include urban remote sensing, imaging spectroscopy, laser altimetry, and spatiotemporal modeling of urban systems.

Miguel O. RománMiguel O. Román is the Founding Director of The Earth from Space Institute (EfSI) – a program of Universities Space Research Association (USRA) dedicated to Earth Observation for societal benefits. Román currently serves as a Discipline Leader to NASA's Terra, Aqua, and Suomi NPP satellite program. He is also a member of the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s (NASEM) Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability – a high‐level forum of senior officials and scientific advisers that share outlooks, information, and analyses related to harnessing science and technology for sustainability.

Mats SandbergMats Sandberg is a Professor of Indoor Environment and Fluid Mechanics in the field of installations, Department of Building, Energy and Environmental Engineering, University of Gävle, Sweden. His research interests include the relation between ventilation of dense cities and the shape and form of cities, the layout of the street network, building area density, and variation in building heights.

Giovanni SanesiGiovanni Sanesi is a Professor at the University of Bari, Italy. His research interests include urban forestry, landscape ecology, climate change impacts, and ecosystem services. He authored more than 200 scientific articles, book chapters, and conference proceeding papers.

Atharva SharmaAtharva Sharma is a Senior Research Engineer at Amobee (a wholly owned subsidiary of Singtel) in the USA. His main research interests are machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, advertising technology, and applications to remote sensing and other areas.

Ranjay M. ShresthaRanjay M. Shrestha is a Senior Scientific Programmer/Analyst for Science Systems and Applications, Inc. working at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. He is a science team member of NASA Black Marble nighttime light product suites that enable, through tracking variations in energy use over time, research on urbanization and human development, light pollution, illegal fishing, fires, and disaster impacts and recovery.

Richard SliuzasRichard Sliuzas received his PhD in Geographical Sciences from the Utrecht University. He is a Professor of Urban Planning for Disaster Risk Reduction at the ITC, University of Twente, Netherlands. His major research areas include urban risk reduction strategies and urban informality. He used a variety of methods to support his research, including aerial and satellite‐based data acquisition systems, spatiotemporal analysis and spatial modeling, community participation, and mapping. He has extensively worked in sub‐Saharan Africa, Asia, South‐East Asia, and Latin America.

Ben SomersBen Somers is an Associate Professor at the Katholieke Universiteit (KU) Leuven Division of Forest, Nature & Landscape. With his team, he focuses on studying the role, vitality, and stability of plant species and their communities in (sub)urban and semi‐natural environments. Recent developments in remote sensing technology are exploited to quantify vegetation structure and functioning at various temporal and spatial scales. He and his team have a proven track record in the development of image processing algorithms and the application of optical remote sensing including imaging spectroscopy, LiDAR processing, and satellite image time series analysis.

Eleanor C. StokesEleanor C. Stokes is a Remote Sensing and Urban Land Scientist who is interested in the planetary impacts of urbanization. During her doctorate, she was awarded the NASA Jenkins fellowship and began using the earliest data from the Suomi‐NPP VIIRS day/night visible band to understand how the changing structure of urban areas shapes sustainability. She now leads Black Marble research activities at the Earth from Space Institute at USRA and was recently profiled in ESRI’s Women and GIS: Stars of Spatial Science. She received a PhD from Yale’s School of the Environment and an MS in Mechanical Engineering from MIT.