Publications and conference papers
Our publications and conference papers
We don't just observe the world. We build models to understand how it changes.
Our publications and conference papers share the research behind MindEarth’s work, from modelling the physical world and urban change to understanding human activity and predicting what could happen next.
Featured publications and conference papers
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Conference paper2026CLMS-Cities: Towards monitoring CO2 emissions on the neighbourhood scale in European cities based on Copernicus data
Cristina Monaco, Alessandra Feliciotti, Mattia Marconcini, et al.
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Conference paper2026Integrating flood-induced mobility disruption modelling into CityNexus as a new advanced application service on Destination Earth
Alessandra Feliciotti, Alejandra Lizama, Mattia Marconcini, Ludovico Lemma, Anika Ruess, Andreas Altenkirch, Josselin Stark, Simone Fratini.
Conference paper2026Assessing pedestrian accessibility to urban land surface temperature cold spots in Bavarian cities
John Friesen, Sarah Heinz, Ariane Droin, Michael Wurm, Tobias Leichtle, Mattia Marconcini, Hannes Taubenböck.
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Digital asset 2026World Settlement Footprint: A global, cloud-native GeoZarr dataset for monitoring settlement dynamics at 10 m resolution
Mattia Marconcini, Anne Annekatrin Metz-Marconcini, Federico Oldani.
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Conference presentation2025Downscaling Sentinel-5P NO₂ data using gradient-boosted trees for high-resolution urban air quality mapping
Alessandro Austoni, Francesco Asaro, Alessandra Feliciotti, Mattia Marconcini, Emanuele Strano.
Conference presentation2025Building energy-efficiency estimation with artificial intelligence
Gianluca Murdaca, Francesco Asaro, Alessandra Feliciotti, Mattia Marconcini, Emanuele Strano.
Conference presentation2025A novel GAN-based approach for super-resolution of night time light imagery
Gianluca Murdaca, Francesco Asaro, Alejandra Lizama, Alessandra Feliciotti, Mattia Marconcini, Emanuele Strano.
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Conference presentation2025GDA urban sustainability: facilitating analyses of urban heat islands at scale and at detail
Christoff Fourie, Christophe Sannier, Fabian Enssle, Mattia Marconcini, Alejandra Lizama, Dimo Dimov, Giulia Costella, David Taverner.
Technical paper2025Prototypes for enhanced urban heat monitoring leveraging Copernicus services and satellite data
Zina Mitraka, G. Lantzanakis, Emmanouil Panagiotakis, Nektarios Chrysoulakis, Giorgos Somarakis, Mattia Marconcini, Christian Feigenwinter, Dirk Lauwaet.
Conference paper2023From pixels to planning: Large-scale mapping of urban morphology and population distribution with the World Settlement Footprint 3D
Daniela Palacios-Lopez, Elisabeth Brzoska, Mattia Marconcini, Julian Zeidler, Thomas Esch.
Technical paper2023Long-term exposure and health risk assessment from air pollution: impact of regional scale mobility
Lorenza Gilardi, Mattia Marconcini, Annekatrin Metz-Marconcini, Thomas Esch, Thilo Erbertseder.
Technical paper2023Rapid urban growth in flood zones: global evidence since 1985
Jun Rentschler, Mattia Marconcini, Rui Su, Emanuele Strano, Louise Bernard, Stephane Hallegatte, Capucine Riom, Paolo Avner.
Technical paper2022The agglomeration and dispersion dichotomy of human settlements on Earth
Emanuele Strano, Filippo Simini, Marco De Nadai, Thomas Esch, Mattia Marconcini.
Technical paper2022Rapid urban growth in flood zones: global evidence since 1985
Jun Rentschler, Mattia Marconcini, Rui Su, Emanuele Strano, Louise Bernard, Stephane Hallegate, Capucine Riom, Paolo Avner.
Technical paper2021The dark side of the Earth: benchmarking lighting access for all cities on Earth and the CityNext dataset
Adrian Albert, Emanuele Strano, Jasleen Kaur, Marta Gonzalez.
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Technical paper2021Mapping wealth from Space: the EO4Poverty project
Mattia Marconcini, Emanuele Strano, Anna Burzykowska.
Technical paper2021Urbanisation and economic complexity
Riccardo Di Clemente, Emanuele Strano, Michael Batty.
Technical paper2021Mobilkit: A python toolkit for urban resilience and disaster risk management analytics using high frequency human mobility data
Enrico Ubaldi, Takahiro Yabe, Satish V. Ukkusuri, Emanuele Strano.
Technical paper2020Outlining where humans live, the World Settlement Footprint, 2015
Mattia Marconcini, Annekatrin Metz-Marconcini, Soner Ureyen, Daniela Palacios-Lopez, Wiebke Hanke, Felix Bachofer, Julian Zeidler, Thomas Esch, Noel Gorelick, Ashwin Kakarla, Marc Paganini, Emanuele Strano.
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