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Hannes Taubenböck

Hannes Taubenböck

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Engineering and Technology

D-Index
49
Citations
9671
World Ranking
4289
National Ranking
135

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
54
Citations
11209
World Ranking
4026
National Ranking
277

Overview

Hannes Taubenböck is affiliated with the German Aerospace Center in Germany. Their research spans several fields, primarily focusing on environmental science and social sciences, with significant contributions to global and planetary change, environmental engineering, health toxicology and mutagenesis, transportation, and media technology.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Impact of Light on Environment and Health
  • Urban Heat Island Mitigation
  • Remote-Sensing Image Classification
  • Urban Green Space and Health
  • Urban Transport and Accessibility
  • Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis

Taubenböck has numerous publications, frequently contributing to journals such as:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
  • International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
  • Cities
  • Remote Sensing of Environment

Recent papers by Taubenböck include:

  • Continental-scale mapping and analysis of 3D building structure, 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Defining pathways to healthy sustainable urban development, 2020, Environment International
  • Spatially-optimized urban greening for reduction of population exposure to land surface temperature extremes, 2023, Nature Communications
  • The urban morphology on our planet - Global perspectives from space, 2021, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Spatial and semantic effects of LUCAS samples on fully automated land use/land cover classification in high-resolution Sentinel-2 data, 2020, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Frequent collaborators include Michael Wurm, Christian Geiß, Xiao Xiang Zhu, Matthias Weigand, and Ariane Droin, reflecting ongoing partnerships in related research areas.

Best Publications

  • Monitoring urbanization in mega cities from space

    Hannes Taubenböck;Thomas Esch;Andreas Felbier;Michael Wiesner

  • Urbanization in India – Spatiotemporal analysis using remote sensing data

    Hannes Taubenböck;Martin Wegmann;Achim Roth;Harald Mehl

  • Understanding an urbanizing planet: Strategic directions for remote sensing

    Zhe Zhu;Yuyu Zhou;Karen C. Seto;Eleanor C. Stokes

  • Building instance classification using street view images

    Jian Kang;Marco Körner;Yuanyuan Wang;Hannes Taubenböck

  • Semantic segmentation of slums in satellite images using transfer learning on fully convolutional neural networks

    Michael Wurm;Thomas Stark;Xiao Xiang Zhu;Xiao Xiang Zhu;Matthias Weigand;Matthias Weigand

  • Urban Footprint Processor—Fully Automated Processing Chain Generating Settlement Masks From Global Data of the TanDEM-X Mission

    T. Esch;M. Marconcini;A. Felbier;A. Roth

  • Defining pathways to healthy sustainable urban development

    Cathryn Tonne;Linda Adair;Deepti Adlakha;Isabelle Anguelovski

  • Continental-scale mapping and analysis of 3D building structure

    Mengmeng Li;Elco Koks;Hannes Taubenböck;Hannes Taubenböck;Jasper van Vliet

  • The morphology of the Arrival City - A global categorization based on literature surveys and remotely sensed data

    Hannes Taubenböck;Nicolas Kraff;Michael Wurm

  • The physical face of slums: a structural comparison of slums in Mumbai, India, based on remotely sensed data

    Hannes Taubenböck;Nicolas Kraff

  • Spatially-optimized urban greening for reduction of population exposure to land surface temperature extremes

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  • New dimensions of urban landscapes: The spatio-temporal evolution from a polynuclei area to a mega-region based on remote sensing data

    Hannes Taubenböck;Michael Wiesner;Andreas Felbier;Mattia Marconcini

  • TanDEM-X mission—new perspectives for the inventory and monitoring of global settlement patterns

    Thomas Esch;Hannes Taubenböck;Achim Roth;Wieke Heldens

  • A conceptual vulnerability and risk framework as outline to identify capabilities of remote sensing

    Hannes Taubenböck;Joachim Post;Achim Roth;Kai Zosseder

  • A new ranking of the world's largest cities—Do administrative units obscure morphological realities?

    Hannes Taubenböck;Hannes Taubenböck;Matthias Weigand;Thomas Esch;Jeroen Staab

  • Unsupervised change detection in VHR remote sensing imagery – an object-based clustering approach in a dynamic urban environment

    Tobias Leichtle;Christian Geiß;Michael Wurm;Tobia Lakes

  • Six fundamental aspects for conceptualizing multidimensional urban form: A spatial mapping perspective

    Elisabeth A. Wentz;Abigail M. York;Mariana Alberti;Lindsey Conrow

  • The urban morphology on our planet – Global perspectives from space

    Xiao Xiang Zhu;Xiao Xiang Zhu;Chunping Qiu;Jingliang Hu;Yilei Shi

  • "Last-Mile" preparation for a potential disaster – Interdisciplinary approach towards tsunami early warning and an evacuation information system for the coastal city of Padang, Indonesia

    Hannes Taubenböck;Nils Goseberg;Neysa J. Setiadi;Gregor Lämmel

  • Estimation of seismic building structural types using multi-sensor remote sensing and machine learning techniques

    Christian Geiß;Christian Geiß;Patrick Aravena Pelizari;Mattia Marconcini;Wayan Sengara

  • Measuring morphological polycentricity - A comparative analysis of urban mass concentrations using remote sensing data

    Hannes Taubenböck;Ines Standfuß;Michael Wurm;Angelika Krehl

  • How good is the map? A multi-scale cross-comparison framework for global settlement layers: Evidence from Central Europe

    Martin Klotz;Thomas Kemper;Christian Geiß;Thomas Esch

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefan Dech
Stefan Dech German Aerospace Center
Xiao Xiang Zhu
Xiao Xiang Zhu Technical University of Munich
Gert G. Wagner
Gert G. Wagner German Institute for Economic Research
Martin Wegmann
Martin Wegmann University of Würzburg
Thomas Blaschke
Thomas Blaschke University of Salzburg
Joern Birkmann
Joern Birkmann University of Stuttgart
Kai Nagel
Kai Nagel Technical University of Berlin
Florian Siegert
Florian Siegert Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Devis Tuia
Devis Tuia École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Xianjin Huang
Xianjin Huang Nanjing University

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