Conference Agenda

Session

Young Scientist Awards: Session includes a pre-selection of oral presentations by YSc authors who have applied for the award.

Time:

Wednesday, 28/May/2025:

11:45am - 1:15pm

Session Chair: Jean-Christophe Schyns
Session Chair: Eva Matoušková

Location: Room 131 (Aula)

Presentations

ID: 243 / Young Scientist Awards: 1

Deciphering Exterior: Building Energy Efficiency Prediction with Emerging Urban Big Data

Maoran Sun¹, Ce Hou², Qiaosi Li³, Fan Zhang⁴, Ronita Bardhan¹, Qunshan Zhao³

¹Sustainable Design Group, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; ²Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong; ³Urban Big Data Centre, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom; ⁴Institute of Remote Sensing and Geographical Information System, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China

ID: 167 / Young Scientist Awards: 2

Mapping Agricultural Landscape Heterogeneity over Six Decades: Automatic Field Segmentation Using Historic and Modern Remote Sensing Data

Eric Kosczor¹, Matthias Forkel¹, Anna Cord²

¹TUD Dresden University of Technology, Junior Professorship in Environmental Remote Sensing, Dresden, Germany; ²University of Bonn, Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, Bonn, Germany

ID: 259 / Young Scientist Awards: 3

Mapping Slums in Kenya by a Combination of Building Footprint Metrics and Optical Imagery

Hang Yang¹, Eunice Jimmy², Jasper van Vliet¹

¹Institute of Environmental Studies, Vrije University Amsterdam, The Netherlands; ²Department of Architecture, University of Naples Federico II, Italy

ID: 120 / Young Scientist Awards: 4

The Role Of Land Use Intensity On Vegetation Recovery Gradients After Land Abandonment In The Semiarid SE Alentejo, Portugal

Henrique Morgado Cerqueira¹, Maria José Roxo¹, Adolfo Calvo-Cases²

¹CICS.NOVA - Centro Interdisciplinar de Ciências Sociais, FCSH-UNL, Lisbon, Portugal; ²Inter-University Institute for Local Development, Unversitat de València, Spain

ID: 139 / Young Scientist Awards: 5

How The Variability Of Tree Predictors And Biomass Changes With The Different Complexity Of Virtual 3D Scenes

Tomáš Hanousek^1,2, Jan Novotný¹, Barbora Navrátilová¹, Růžena Janoutová¹

¹Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences; ²Department of Geography, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University

ID: 200 / Young Scientist Awards: 6

Towards an Indicator-Based Morphological Informality Model for Sub-Saharan Africa Using Open Building Footprint Data

Sebastian Hafner¹, Qunshan Zhao¹, Angela Abascal², Manuella Comerio de Paulo¹, Grant Tregonning¹, Alexandra Middleton³, Adenike Shonowo¹, Monika Kuffer⁴, Ryan Engstrom⁵, Dana R. Thomson⁶, Francis C. Onyambu⁷, Caroline Kabaria⁷, Peter Elias⁸, Oluwatoyin Odulana⁸, Bunmi Alugbin⁸, Kehinde Baruwa⁸, João Porto de Albuquerque¹

¹Urban Big Data Centre (UBDC), University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom; ²Engineer Department, Public University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain; ³University of Warwick, Warwick, United Kingdom; ⁴Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, Enchede Netherlands; ⁵Department of Geography & Environment, George Washinton University, Washington, D.C., United States; ⁶Center for Integrated Earth System Information (CIESIN), Columbia University, New York, United States; ⁷African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC), Nairobi, Kenya; ⁸University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria