Here comes my next reading list piece. Last year I posted one geospatial paper every single day, sharing things I found useful and interesting on the go - and now, I collected them all here in this list - based on the chronological order I shared them. So, this is not a focus list of any specific topic or the latest pieces - but a 360-view (365) of the field in from 2025:
One paper a day. Numbered by day, Day 1 → Day 365.
Uncover the nature of overlapping community in cities — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.00222
Urban highways are barriers to social ties — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.00222
Electric Vehicles Limit Equitable Access to Essential Services During Blackouts — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.09998
Offshore power and hydrogen networks for Europe’s North Sea — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.09721
From Space to Story in Data Journalism — https://nightingaledvs.com/from-space-to-story-in-data-journalism/
Lunar Crater Detection: Computer Vision in Space — https://towardsdatascience.com/lunar-crater-detection-computer-vision-in-space-04e1ee416826
AI Maps: Is This Our Future? — https://gisgeography.com/ai-maps/
Robust language-based mental health assessments in time and space through social media — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41746-024-01100-0
Mixing Individual and Collective Behaviours to Predict Out-of-Routine Mobility — https://lnkd.in/dQYShuHv
Geospatial Indexing Explained: A Comparison of Geohash, S2, and H3 — https://lnkd.in/gdGfqRyc
Counting on Your Customized Database from A to Z — https://lnkd.in/dQ-x98pN
A universal framework for inclusive 15-minute cities — https://lnkd.in/duVb-wJi
AnySat: An Earth Observation Model for Any Resolutions, Scales, and Modalities — https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.14123
Developing a city-specific walkability index through a participatory approach — https://lnkd.in/dKc-TMja
Earth Peel — https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-pro/education/earth-peel/
Global urban road network patterns: Unveiling multiscale planning paradigms of 144 cities with a novel deep learning approach — https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0169204623002207?via%3Dihub
Simple Yet Stunning and Meaningful Geospatial Visualization — https://towardsdatascience.com/simple-yet-stunning-and-meaningful-geospatial-visualization-using-happiness-and-confict-data-e9fbf690675c
How Nepal Regenerated Its Forests — https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/150937/how-nepal-regenerated-its-forests
Defining priority areas for blue whale conservation and investigating overlap with vessel traffic in Chilean Patagonia — https://www.linkedin.com/posts/stevenouri_artificialintelligence-datascience-ugcPost-6927155357010067457-fGK4
Advances in geocomputation and geospatial artificial intelligence (GeoAI) for mapping — https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S156984322300122X
The Diffusive Nature of Housing Prices — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.14624
Incorporating Machine Learning into Established Bioinformatics Frameworks — https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/22/6/2903
Coral Cities: An Ito Design Lab Concept — https://towardsdatascience.com/coral-cities-an-ito-design-lab-concept-c01a3f4a2722
On the need to move from a single indicator to a multi-dimensional framework to measure accessibility to urban green — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.05538
Prediction of potential occurrence of historical objects with defensive function in Slovakia using machine learning approach — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-82290-1
The Language of Maps: A Guide to Geospatial Data Formats and Coordinates — https://towardsdatascience.com/the-language-of-maps-a-guide-to-geospatial-data-formats-and-coordinates-06382df7db36
Scientists Showcase Global Discoveries Using Planet Data At World’s Largest Geospatial Conference — https://www.planet.com/pulse/scientists-showcase-global-discoveries-using-planet-data-at-worlds-largest-geospatial-conference/
Emergent circulation patterns from anonymized mobility data: Clustering Italy in the time of Covid — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.05302
Creating Beautiful River Maps with Python — https://towardsdatascience.com/creating-beautiful-river-maps-with-python-37c9b5f5b74c
Sentinel-2 Deep Resolution 3.0 — https://medium.com/@ya_71389/sentinel-2-deep-resolution-3-0-c71a601a2253
Love might be a second-order phase transition — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.13246
Taking the Pulse of the Internet — https://www.maps.com/taking-the-pulse-of-the-internet/
Impact of inter-city interactions on disease scaling — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.01395
Spanish heat waves curb discretionary mobility and alter work behavior — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.03978
Top 12 Skills Data Scientists Need to Succeed in 2025 — https://towardsdatascience.com/top-12-skills-data-scientists-need-to-succeed-in-2025-c80f54cf227a
Noise Pollution Mapping — https://gisgeography.com/noise-pollution-mapping/
Large-scale Generation of Transit Maps from OpenStreetMap Data — https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00087041.2024.2325761#abstract
A Collaborative and Scalable Geospatial Data Set for Arctic Retrogressive Thaw Slumps with Data Standards — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-025-04372-7
SquirrelML: Predicting Squirrel Approach in NYC’s Central Park — https://towardsdatascience.com/squirrelml-predicting-squirrel-approach-in-nycs-central-park-8c3719d8ff65
Behaviour-based dependency networks between places shape urban economic resilience — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02072-7
Lost in Null Island: The Curious Origin of 0,0 — https://gisgeography.com/null-island/
Accelerating green shipping with spatially optimized offshore charging stations — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-024-01692-7
What is Spatial Data Science? — https://gisgeography.com/spatial-data-science/
Ethical Challenges Arising from the Mapping of Mobile Phone Location Data — https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00087041.2024.2318055#abstract
Best Remote Sensing Software (tool roundup) — https://gisgeography.com/best-remote-sensing-software/
Speciation and historical invasions of the Asian black-spined toad (Duttaphrynus melanostictus) — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-54933-4
Assessing the cooling potential of green and blue infrastructure from twelve US cities with contrasting climate conditions — https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1618866724004588?dgcid=coauthor
Data-driven approach to estimate urban heat island impacts on building energy consumption — https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360544225001501?dgcid=author
Streamlining geoscience data analysis with an LLM-driven workflow — https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acags.2024.100218
Equity analysis of bus network balance from the perspective of spatial morphology and service capability — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-86318-y
DeltaCAN — A new data set of Canadian Arctic and subarctic coastal deltas — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-025-04458-2
Distortion by Design — https://nightingaledvs.com/distortion-by-design/
Five Key Lessons for Google Earth Engine Beginners — https://towardsdatascience.com/five-key-lessons-for-google-earth-engine-beginners-7ab3709f65b8
The Coherence of US cities — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.10297
5 Live Satellite Maps to See Earth in Real-Time — https://gisgeography.com/live-satellite-map/
Visualizing geospatial big data on Databricks with h3 + Mapbox GL JS — https://medium.com/optimind-engineering/visualizing-geospatial-big-data-on-databricks-with-h3-mapbox-gl-js-1b4c4e7fddc6
Optimizing survey conditions for Burmese python detection and removal using community science data — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-84641-4
Introducing the Fourth Release of the Atlas of Human Settlements — https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/introducing-fourth-release-atlas-human-settlements-abe-tarapani-qh42c
Modeling the spatial dynamics of income in cities — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.14705.pdf
Twitter Sentiment Geographical Index Dataset — https://zurl.co/Om73Y
Health for all: Primary care facility localization in Lesotho using qualitative research and GIS — https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589791824000069
RINX: A Solution for Information Extraction from Big Raster Datasets — https://isprs-archives.copernicus.org/articles/XLVIII-4-W1-2022/245/2022/isprs-archives-XLVIII-4-W1-2022-245-2022.pdf
Finding gaps in the national electric vehicle charging station coverage of the United States — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-55696-8
One-Dimensional Urban Scaling — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.12495
Analyze Tornado Data with Python and GeoPandas — https://towardsdatascience.com/analyze-tornado-data-with-python-and-geopandas-591d5e559bb4
Trade Dynamics of the Global Dry Bulk Shipping Network — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.00877
Charts, Dashboards, Maps, and More: Data Visualization in the Spotlight — https://towardsdatascience.com/charts-dashboards-maps-and-more-data-visualization-in-the-spotlight-67d71ddf6614/
Forest fires under the lens: needleleaf index — a novel tool for satellite image analysis — https://www.nature.com/articles/s44304-025-00063-w
Effectiveness of the world network of biosphere reserves in maintaining forest ecosystem functions — https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02081-y
A Visual Guide to How Diffusion Models Work — https://towardsdatascience.com/a-visual-guide-to-how-diffusion-models-work/
How GIS Uses Mapping Overlays — https://gisgeography.com/mapping-overlays/
A fire deficit persists across diverse North American forests despite recent increases in area burned — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-56333-8
Bus Stop Spacings Statistics: Theory and Evidence — http://arxiv.org/abs/2208.04394v1
Behavioral changes during the pandemic worsened income diversity of urban encounters — http://arxiv.org/abs/2207.06895v1
Multiscale dynamic human mobility flow dataset in the U.S. during the COVID-19 epidemic — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-020-00734-5
Optimal farm size reduces global poverty-induced soil antibiotic exposure risk — https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-025-01131-0
CUGUV: A Benchmark Dataset for Promoting Large-Scale Urban Village Mapping with Deep Learning Models — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-025-04701-w
American cultural regions mapped through the lexical analysis of social media — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2208.07649v1
Visualising Global Population Datasets with Python — https://towardsdatascience.com/visualising-global-population-datasets-with-python-c87bcfc8c6a6/
MSD: A Benchmark Dataset for Floor Plan Generation of Building Complexes — https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.10121
Spectrometry of the Urban Lightscape — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2208.06441v1
Towards an AI co-scientist — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.18864
Quality of crowdsourced geospatial building information: A global assessment of OpenStreetMap attributes — https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360132323003220?via%3Dihub
Visual Sorting with Machine Learning: An Unsupervised Learning Approach — https://towardsdatascience.com/machine-learning-to-visually-sort-7349d3660e1/
Proximity Analysis to Find the Nearest Bar Using Python — https://towardsdatascience.com/proximity-analysis-to-find-the-nearest-bar-using-python-a29d29a3754d/
Scaling of Street Network Centrality with City Population — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.12006
Using human mobility data to quantify experienced urban inequalities — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02079-0.epdf
D3Blocks: The Python Library to Create Interactive and Standalone D3js Charts — https://towardsdatascience.com/d3blocks-the-python-library-to-create-interactive-and-standalone-d3js-charts-3dda98ce97d4/
A Digital Urban Twin Enabling Interactive Pollution Predictions and Enhanced Planning — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.13746
Multidimensional Economic Complexity and Inclusive Green Growth — https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-023-00770-0
A digital cartography of digital ecosystems — https://www.nature.com/articles/s44287-025-00150-0
Spatial Data Science — https://gisgeography.com/spatial-data-science/
Socioeconomic centers in cities worldwide — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.06445
Global benefits of deploying photovoltaic systems on residential buildings — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-025-02276-3
Macroplastic distribution patterns and accumulation in an urbanised austral subtropical river system — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-94282-w
Environmental conditions associated with initial northern expansion of anatomically modern humans — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-48762-8
Comparing Country Sizes with GeoPandas — https://towardsdatascience.com/comparing-country-sizes-with-geopandas-2ce027282ba0/
Map Design – Steal These Cartography Ideas — https://gisgeography.com/map-design/
Regional uniqueness of tree species composition and response to forest loss and climate change — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-48276-3
Shoreline retreat and beach nourishment are projected to increase in Southern California — https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01388-6
AidData’s Global Chinese Development Finance Dataset, Version 3.0 — https://communities.springernature.com/posts/aiddata-launches-new-geospatial-global-chinese-development-finance-dataset
How much longer do you have to drive than the crow has to fly? — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.06490
An Open Data-Driven Approach to Optimising Healthcare Facility Locations Using Python — https://towardsdatascience.com/an-open-data-driven-approach-to-optimising-healthcare-facility-locations-using-python-397b3ce38185/
Erasing Clouds from Satellite Imagery Using GANs — https://towardsdatascience.com/erasing-clouds-from-satellite-imagery-using-gans-generative-adversarial-networks-2d7f8467ef2e/
Intersection of narco-trafficking, enforcement and bird conservation in the Americas — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-024-01365-z
Daily station-level records of air temperature, snow depth, and ground temperature in the Northern Hemisphere — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-024-03483-x
Time in Maps: 10 Types of Temporal Maps — https://gisgeography.com/topographic-maps/
People in relationally mobile cultures report higher well-being — https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-37034-001
Robust design of bicycle infrastructure networks — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.04349
Multiscale dynamic human mobility flow dataset in the U.S. during the COVID-19 epidemic — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-020-00734-5
Quantitative comparison of power grid reinforcements — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.05380
Sentinel-2 Deep Resolution 3.0 — https://medium.com/@ya_71389/sentinel-2-deep-resolution-3-0-c71a601a2253
Shift in house price estimates during COVID-19 reveals effect of crisis on collective speculation — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2209.03936
PyPSA-Earth. A new global open energy system optimization model demonstrated in Africa — https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306261923004609
Introducing the Fourth Release of the Atlas of Human Settlements — https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/introducing-fourth-release-atlas-human-settlements-abe-tarapani-qh42c
Oblique Imagery — https://gisgeography.com/oblique-imagery/
On the Opportunities and Challenges of Foundation Models for Geospatial Artificial Intelligence — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.06798
Terraforming Mars with Python — https://towardsdatascience.com/terraforming-mars-with-python-4c21ed75117f/
Exploration of geo-spatial data and machine learning algorithms for robust wildfire occurrence prediction — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-94002-4
Diversity Beyond Density: Experienced Social Mixing of Urban Streets — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2209.07041
GNSS vs GPS: What’s the Difference? — https://gisgeography.com/gnss-vs-gps/
Diversity Beyond Density: Experienced Social Mixing of Urban Streets — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2209.07041.pdf
Identifying polycentric urban structure using the minimum cycle basis of road network as building blocks — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.15015
Hidden urban patterns: Existential discovery of urban patterns based on traffic and virtual space — https://communities.springernature.com/posts/discovering-tehran-s-hidden-urban-patterns-how-traffic-and-mobile-data-reveal-the-city-s-pulse
A comprehensive framework for evaluating the quality of street view imagery — https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2022.103094
Assessing the deployment of solar-driven hydrogen from biomass at scale in the U.S. — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-90290-y
Subnational variations in the quality of household survey data in sub-Saharan Africa — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-58776-5
Offshore wind integration in the North Sea: The benefits of an offshore grid and floating wind — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.01996.pdf
Dual impact of global urban overheating on mortality — https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7320618125207445504-QDmE/
Road-width-aware network optimisation for bike lane planning — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.22550
Temperature-related neonatal deaths attributable to climate change in 29 low- and middle-income countries — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-49890-x
Reviewing climate change attribution in UK natural hazards and their impacts — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.12951
Worldwide delineation of multi-tier city–regions — https://www.nature.com/articles/s44284-024-00083-z
My Journey and Key Takeaways: 330 Weeks of Data Visualizations — https://towardsdatascience.com/330-weeks-of-data-visualizations-my-journey-and-key-takeaways-93f824714dd1/
Intercity connectivity and urban innovation — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.14681
Mapped: Highest and lowest doctor density around the world — https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-highest-and-lowest-doctor-density-world/
So you want to be in the GIS industry? Good luck — https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/so-you-want-gis-industry-good-luck-mina-nada-kwpoc/
Interested in the topology of public transport networks? — https://www.linkedin.com/posts/oded-cats-45282223_interested-in-the-topology-of-public-transport-activity-7193532460784123904-TxoZ/
Ageing threatens sustainability of smallholder farming in China — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05738-w
TerraMesh: A Planetary Mosaic of Multimodal Earth Observation Data — https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.11172
Understanding Urban-Rural Disparities in Mobility Inefficiency for Colombia, Mexico, and India — https://arxiv.org/html/2503.01810v1
Nationwide conflict damage mapping with interferometric synthetic aperture radar: A study of the 2022 Russia–Ukraine conflict — https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666017225000239
Urban Dynamics Through the Lens of Human Mobility — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.16996.pdf
City definition affects long-term urban scaling analyses in the United States (1900–2015) — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2209.10852.pdf
Top 10 Topographic Maps From Around the World — https://gisgeography.com/topographic-maps/
Emotion Semantics Show Both Cultural Variation and Universal Structure — https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aaw8160
Estimates of Population Highly Annoyed from Transportation Noise in the United States: An Unfair Share of the Burden by Race and Ethnicity — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.16837.pdf
An Approach to Assessing Tsunami Risk to the Global Port Network Under Rising Sea Levels — https://www.nature.com/articles/s44304-024-00039-2
Massive Geolocation Data Reveal Evacuation Behaviour During the 2024 Noto Peninsula Earthquake and Tsunami — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.05795
What Are Relief Maps? — https://gisgeography.com/relief-maps/
Global Effort Maps Microplastics’ Path Through Critical Ocean Systems — https://phys.org/news/2025-04-global-effort-microplastics-path-critical.html
Geography and Availability of Natural Habitat Determine Whether Cropland Intensification or Expansion Is More Detrimental to Biodiversity — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-025-02691-x
On the Need to Move from a Single Indicator to a Multi-Dimensional Framework to Measure Accessibility to Urban Green — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.05538
Sensitivity of Mesoscale Modeling to Urban Morphological Feature Inputs and Implications for Characterizing Urban Sustainability — https://www.nature.com/articles/s42949-024-00185-6
Oceans Are Heating Faster in Two Bands Stretching Around Globe, Study Reveals — https://phys.org/news/2025-05-oceans-faster-bands-globe-reveals.html
Modeling and Analyzing Urban Networks and Amenities with OSMnx — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.00736
Temperature-Related Neonatal Deaths Attributable to Climate Change in 29 Low- and Middle-Income Countries — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-49890-x
Eco-Friendly AI: How to Reduce the Carbon and Water Footprints of Your ML Models — https://towardsdatascience.com/eco-friendly-ai-how-to-reduce-the-carbon-and-water-footprints-of-your-ml-models-8a03d3158a94/
‘The Data Diaries’: Data Sonification of the Total Solar Eclipse — https://nightingaledvs.com/interactive-data-diaries-data-sonification-total-solar-eclipse/
Spatial Analytics vs. Spatial Analysis — https://gisgeography.com/spatial-analytics/
Snow depth measurements from Arctic tundra and boreal forest collected during NASA SnowEx Alaska campaign — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-025-05170-x
Investigating the emergent invariant properties of Hungarian electric distribution networks — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.04009
Urban climate change research globally: Themes, geographies, and gaps in over 133,000 articles — https://lnkd.in/gb_4aBar
The Geography of Transportation Cybersecurity: Visitor Flows, Industry Clusters, and Spatial Dynamics — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.08822
Pedestrian mobility citizen science complements expert mapping for enhancing inclusive neighborhood placemaking — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.11098
GIS File Formats: The Complete List of GIS File Formats You Should Know — https://gisgeography.com/gis-formats/
The Geospatial Capabilities of Microsoft Fabric and ESRI GeoAnalytics, Demonstrated — https://towardsdatascience.com/geospatial-capabilities-of-microsoft-fabric-and-esri-geoanalytics-demonstrated/
AI and the economic divide: How Artificial Intelligence could widen the divide in the U.S. — https://epjdatascience.springeropen.com/articles/10.1140/epjds/s13688-025-00547-9
Patterns of persistence: Exploring spatial factors behind the longevity of British high streets — https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264275125004378?via%3Dihub
BIM – Building Information Modeling — https://gisgeography.com/bim-building-information-modeling/
25 Must-Know GIS Editing Tools [Cheatsheet] — https://gisgeography.com/gis-editing-tools/
Modeling Urban Air Quality Using Taxis as Sensors — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.11720
Global dataset of Urban Land Surface Temperature (ULST) derived by deep learning from SENTINEL-3 SLST data — https://www.linkedin.com/posts/shengao-yi-918738236_remotesensing-urbanclimate-deeplearning-ugcPost-7328403410901213188-FKGi
‘The Data Diaries’: Data Sonification of the Total Solar Eclipse — https://nightingaledvs.com/interactive-data-diaries-data-sonification-total-solar-eclipse/
Spatial Analytics vs. Spatial Analysis — https://gisgeography.com/spatial-analytics/
Saltwater intrusion and human health risks for coastal populations under 2050 climate scenarios — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-66956-4
NIH indirect cost cuts will affect the economy and employment — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02238-x
The high cost of importing green hydrogen from Africa to Europe — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-025-01775-z
Improved high resolution heat exposure assessment with personal weather stations and spatiotemporal Bayesian models — https://essopenarchive.org/users/557741/articles/1284819-improved-high-resolution-heat-exposure-assessment-with-personal-weather-stations-and-spatiotemporal-bayesian-models
Beyond land surface temperature: Identifying areas of daytime thermal discomfort in cities by combining remote sensing and field measurements — https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212095525001762
American cities are defined by isolated rings and pockets characterized by limited socio-economic mixing — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2407.12612
Top 10 Tips for GeoPandas — https://medium.com/@janosovm/top-10-tips-for-geopandas-7aef191957a3
Seed dispersal by Martu peoples promotes the distribution of native plants in arid Australia — https://communities.springernature.com/posts/seed-dispersal-by-martu-peoples-promotes-the-distribution-of-native-plants-in-arid-australia
CHRONEX-US: City-level historical road network expansion dataset for the contiguous United States — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.16625
Future Directions in Human Mobility Science — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2408.00702
Nine months of daily LiDAR, orthophotos and MetOcean data from the eroding soft cliff coast at Happisburgh, UK — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-024-03499-3
Assessing global drinking water potential from electricity-free solar water evaporation device — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-51115-0
Compact 15-minute cities are greener — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2409.01817
Inset Map – A Map Within a Map! — https://gisgeography.com/inset-maps/
Deeply nested structure of mythological traditions worldwide — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2408.07300
Detecting Clouds with AI — https://medium.com/data-science/detecting-clouds-with-ai-b553e6576af6
Top Python Libraries for Satellite Image Processing in 2024 — https://blog.stackademic.com/top-python-libraries-for-satellite-image-processing-in-2024-bac481b2fcea
Solid Earth forcing of Mesozoic oceanic anoxic events — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-024-01496-0
Spatiotemporal variability and prediction of e-bike battery levels in bike-sharing systems — (source link unavailable in original post)
A local-to-global emissions inventory of macroplastic pollution — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07758-6
Study finds impacts of 4.2 ka climate event no big deal, actually — https://phys.org/news/2024-08-impacts-ka-climate-event-big.html
I captured the solar energy of the whole globe using few lines of code — https://medium.com/@milindsoni201/i-captured-the-solar-energy-of-the-whole-globe-using-few-lines-of-code-d1fff95f1f18
Aerial imagery dataset of lost oil wells — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-024-03820-0
AnySat: One Earth Observation Model for Many Resolutions, Scales, and Modalities — https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.14123
A universal framework for inclusive 15-minute cities — https://www.nature.com/articles/s44284-024-00119-4
Counting on Your Customized Database from A to Z — https://towardsdatascience.com/how-many-cars-are-in-this-aerial-imagery-lets-count-them-with-yolov8-from-scratch-7c24a3919d21/
Mixing Individual and Collective Behaviours to Predict Out-of-Routine Mobility — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.02740
Robust language-based mental health assessments in time and space through social media — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41746-024-01100-0
From Space to Story in Data Journalism — https://nightingaledvs.com/from-space-to-story-in-data-journalism/
Changing wildfire complexity highlights the need for institutional adaptation — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-025-02367-1
Automated oil spill detection using deep learning and SAR satellite data for the northern entrance of the Suez Canal — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-03028-1
Scientists reconstruct 540 million years of sea level change in detail — https://phys.org/news/2025-07-scientists-reconstruct-million-years-sea.amp
How to Access NASA’s Climate Data — And How It’s Powering the Fight Against Climate Change Pt. 1 — https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-access-nasas-climate-data-and-how-its-powering-the-fight-against-climate-change-pt-1/
What is the best shape of a city — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.00100
Street design and driving behavior: evidence from a large-scale study in Milan, Amsterdam, and Dubai — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.04434
Cancer research funding in Africa — https://www.nature.com/articles/s43856-025-00992-7
How to Overlay a Heatmap on a Real Map with Python — https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-overlay-a-heatmap-on-a-real-map-with-python/
Assessment of flood vulnerability in a coastal metropolitan city for sustainable environmental using machine learning methods — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-08912-4
Tree species from space: a new product for Germany based on Sentinel-1 and -2 time series — https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01431161.2025.2530236
Contested logistics: Resilience of strategic highways and railways — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.18470
FlowsDT: A Geospatial Digital Twin for Navigating Urban Flood Dynamics — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.08850
Global health burden and inequality patterns of occupational noise exposure from 1990 to 2019 — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-09575-x
Urban heat island linkages with the landscape morphology — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-09141-5
AlphaEarth Foundations: The largest GEOAI model ever built — https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ravivturner_geoai-earthai-earthobservation-ugcPost-7357282381268992000-e9VC/
Street network sub-patterns and travel mode — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19648
CAMELSH: A Large-Sample Hourly Hydrometeorological Dataset and Attributes at Watershed-Scale for CONUS — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-025-05612-6
City-scale GPS data reveals impact of spatial configuration and dedicated infrastructure on e-scooter route choice — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-06938-2
Scaling Pedestrian Crossing Analysis to 100 U.S. Cities via AI-based Segmentation of Satellite Imagery — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.20497
Embedding-Based Multilingual Semantic Search for Geo-Textual Data in Urban Studies — https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41651-025-00232-5
Tree shortages in informal settlements across African cities — https://www.nature.com/articles/s44284-025-00284-0
How Green Tech Transports Agriculture Toward a Cleaner Future: The Emissions Breakthrough in Populous Nations — https://communities.springernature.com/posts/how-green-tech-transports-agriculture-toward-a-cleaner-future-the-emissions-breakthrough-in-populous-nations
Definition of the Map — https://ica-adv.copernicus.org/articles/3/9/2021/ica-adv-3-9-2021.pdf
Mapping Forest Carbon Stock Distribution in a Subtropical Region with the Integration of Airborne Lidar and Sentinel-2 Data — https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/16/20/3847
“Eyes on the Street”: Estimating Natural Surveillance Along Amsterdam’s City Streets Using Street-Level Imagery — https://www.researchgate.net/publication/371262780_Eyes_on_the_Street_Estimating_Natural_Surveillance_Along_Amsterdam’s_City_Streets_Using_Street-Level_Imagery
Urban Growth vs. Nature: How GIS Revealed Kaduna’s Flood Crisis — https://communities.springernature.com/posts/urban-growth-vs-nature-how-gis-revealed-kaduna-s-flood-crisis
Economy and Geography Shape the Collective Attention of Cities — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.08907
Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) on Landsat — https://gisgeography.com/thermal-infrared-sensor-tirs/
One City, Two Tales: Using Mobility Networks to Understand Neighborhood Resilience and Fragility during the COVID-19 Pandemic — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.04641.pdf
Urban Economic Fitness and Complexity from Patent Data — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.01001.pdf
Mapping rubber plantations and deforestation in Southeast Asia — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06642-z
Uncover the nature of overlapping community in cities — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.00222
Urban highways are barriers to social ties — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.11596.pdf
DeepMind’s AlphaEarth: vegetation type detection case study — (shared via LinkedIn post; no direct paper link in original)
Social-infrastructure Time Use (STU) dataset — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-025-05504-9
A survey of critically endangered Plecturocebus oenanthe in Moyobamba’s urban forests, Peru — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-17148-1
Where Hurricanes Hit Hardest: A County-Level Analysis with Python — https://towardsdatascience.com/where-hurricanes-hit-hardest-a-county-level-analysis-with-python/
Maximum Entropy Approach for the Prediction of Urban Mobility Patterns — https://lnkd.in/dt4-vHBS
Comparative analysis of smart city scientific research trends in the USA and China — https://communities.springernature.com/posts/comparative-analysis-of-smart-city-scientific-research-trends-in-the-usa-and-china
Building energy consumption and operating emissions linked to urban form and socio-economic factors — https://www.linkedin.com/posts/filipbiljecki_our-new-paper-in-nature-sustainability-presents-activity-7363093963559354368--Tfw/
Open-source platform for large-scale, customizable street view image perception surveys — https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sijie-yang-peter_urbanperception-opensourceresearch-geoai-activity-7339908036829855746-r3zG/
Pedestrians now walk faster and linger less — https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2424662122
Wind energy in the North Sea via network science and geospatial analytics (25% increase) — https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306261924009139
Quantifying accessibility of green patches across Italian cities using block-block connectivity graphs — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.12902
U.S. public housing residents face disproportionate air pollution (PM2.5) exposure — https://lnkd.in/d2QnqcnD
A decade of U.S. energy market data: highways of electricity — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-63143-5
Urban Economic Fitness and Complexity from Patent Data — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.01001.pdf
Urban Street Network Design and Transport-Related Greenhouse Gas Emissions around the World — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.01411
Locations of logistics facilities for e-commerce: a case of the Tokyo Metropolitan Area — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2312.14961.pdf
Spatiotemporal gender differences in urban vibrancy — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.12840.pdf
Multilayer mobility network analysis during the 2021 Texas winter storm — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.03642
Quantifying the impact of power outages (disaster management) — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.02653
Urban Computing in the Era of Large Language Models — https://www.researchgate.net/publication/390468722_Urban_Computing_in_the_Era_of_Large_Language_Models
Mapping infrastructure deficits across 2,190 African urban areas from 415M building footprints — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09465-2
What’s driving the Amazon’s changing climate — global warming or local deforestation? — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-63156-0
A new global map of seasonal asynchrony from 20 years of satellite data — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09410-3
Designing upscaling frameworks: turning sparse LiDAR samples into full-coverage biomass maps — https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/17/14/2340
Decoupling geographical constraints from human mobility — https://communities.springernature.com/posts/decoupling-geographical-constraints-from-human-mobility
Spatial modeling and COVID-incident data across Germany — https://ij-healthgeographics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12942-020-00225-1
Phone-based social networks of 25 million people across countries, provinces, and cities — https://www.nature.com/articles/srep10265
Systematic literature review using LLMs on climate change and air quality — https://www.nature.com/articles/s44407-025-00027-4
AI for Future Cities (Arup report) — https://www.linkedin.com/posts/remco-deelstra-0233635_ai-for-future-cities-ugcPost-7371868756492312577-j8zp/
Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) — https://gisgeography.com/thermal-infrared-sensor-tirs/
Urban growth in Mexico: central population loss and outskirt expansion, 1990–2020 — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.16110
A computer vision framework for geospatial analytics using generative diffusion models — https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.07890
High-resolution dataset of infrastructure-critical climate hazards across the U.S. (1979–2100) — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-025-05918-5
Does the rich-get-richer hold in urban settings? A voter model approach — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.14705.pdf
Who Are Streets For? — https://schoolofcities.github.io/who-are-streets-for/
Breathing Green: Maximising Health and Environmental Benefits for Active Transportation Users Leveraging Large Scale Air Quality Data — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.15401.pdf
A Gentle Introduction to GDAL, Part 6.1: Visualizing Data — https://medium.com/@robsimmon/a-gentle-introduction-to-gdal-part-6-1-visualizing-data-8e6e7d6ef641
A Gentle Introduction to GDAL, Part 9: Automation with Bash — https://medium.com/@robsimmon/a-gentle-introduction-to-gdal-part-9-automation-with-bash-46a13c51faa5
A universal, parsimonious, generative model of urban growth from network backbone — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.21931
Geospatial Function Calling with ChatGPT — https://medium.com/@gisjohnecs/geospatial-function-calling-with-chatgpt-7cd57cc4a341
Global 500 m gridded dataset (2000–2019) of steel, aluminum, and cement in-use stocks — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-025-05618-0
Mapping Earth’s major biomes against climate conditions using machine learning — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-16452-0/figures/1
New Stories from Space: More Satellite Imagery in Data Journalism — https://medium.com/@robsimmon/new-stories-from-space-more-satellite-imagery-in-data-journalism-eb6ebb4ac36a
A 3D model of how city populations are scaled and distributed over space — https://www.nature.com/articles/s42949-025-00262-4/figures/1
Enhancing Landsat Imagery Resolution: A Step-by-Step Pansharpening Guide in QGIS — https://medium.com/@taremyor/enhancing-landsat-imagery-resolution-a-step-by-step-pansharpening-guide-in-qgis-79d2b43b598a
Geoslavery — https://www.researchgate.net/publication/3226764_Geoslavey
Python the Documentary — An origin story —
Mapping Kenya’s Crops with AI: A Deep Dive into Google’s Satellite Embedding V1 — https://medium.com/@thukupeter487/mapping-kenyas-crops-with-ai-a-deep-dive-into-google-s-satellite-embedding-v1-0776728dbbbb
World’s coastal settlements retreating from seas — https://phys.org/news/2025-09-world-coastal-settlements-retreating-seas.html
Panama’s vital ocean upwelling vanishes for the first time in decades — https://www.leravi.org/panamas-vital-ocean-route-vanishes-for-the-first-time-in-decades-14875/
Spatial anonymization tool in R for multi-resolution maps — https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10109-025-00472-5
A framework that generates realistic 3D city blocks — https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/14/10/375
DIST-ALERT: A global system for rapid land cover change detection at 30 m resolution — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-64014-9
Global vegetation loss over the past decade — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-64449-0
GEOBench-VLM: Benchmarking Vision-Language Models for Geospatial Tasks — https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.19325
A systematic map of machine learning in urban climate change mitigation — https://www.researchgate.net/publication/380425857_A_systematic_map_of_machine_learning_in_urban_climate_change_mitigation
DiverCity: quantifying route diversification in road networks — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.02582
Emerging mathematical models of urban growth (dissertation) — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.03045
The Vertical 15-Minute City concept — https://filipbiljecki.com/publications/2026_cities_15mc.pdf
MODIS fire detection and combustion sources near U.S. military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan, 2002–2012 — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41370-025-00804-z
Daily global PM2.5 levels reconstructed from 1980–2023 — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41612-025-01183-w
A Liveability Index for Greater London — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.09296
Bathymetric monitoring via weighted average data fusion of multi-sensor coastal data — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-19550-1
Economic impact of Metro C on Rome’s local economic activities — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.01449
Current state and emerging trends in low-cost air quality sensor networks — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41612-025-01216-4
AlphaEarth Foundations (DeepMind) — https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/DeepMind.com/Blog/alphaearth-foundations-helps-map-our-planet-in-unprecedented-detail/alphaearth-foundations.pdf
Detecting mobility localities by combining topology and network science — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.17174
Central Place Theory — https://gisgeography.com/central-place-theory/
EU hydrogen refueling stations: a demand-based rollout — https://techxplore.com/news/2025-07-hydrogen-refueling-stations-millions-yearly.html
Expansion of treed area over Canada, 1984–2022 — https://academic.oup.com/forestry/article/98/5/786/8104860?login=false
AI-powered acoustic monitoring for reef restoration — https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.09.24.678197
Melting glacier creates new island in Alaska — https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/melting-glacier-creates-new-island-alaska-satellite-images-show-rcna231468
What Your New York Neighborhood Says About You (Big 5 personality traits across NYC) — https://nightingaledvs.com/what-your-new-york-neighborhood-says-about-you/
Ensemble machine learning for road flood predictions using crowd-sourced data from Washington, D.C. — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-20970-2
The 15-Minute City Revisited: A GIS Approach — https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kostas-mouratidis_the-15-minute-city-revisited-a-gis-approach-activity-7387115878602948608-Tji2
ORBITaL-Net: 1.4 million labeled buildings across 72 countries — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-025-05677-3
Trio of Sentinel satellites map methane super-emitters — https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Trio_of_Sentinel_satellites_map_methane_super-emitters
Bologna Wi-Fi handovers: a citywide mobility network for bike-sharing siting — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.04243
Mapping trees outside forests with deep learning and high-res aerial imagery — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.25239
A global link between soil fertility and national intelligence — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-22539-5
Deep embedded clustering framework for mineral prospectivity mapping — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-21927-1
Declining wind speeds and global gross primary productivity — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65000-x
Ecological impact of Neanderthals and Mesolithic hunter-gatherers — https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0328218
Grassland growth peaked in the 1980s: 40 years of NDVI vegetation data — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-64565-x
First images from Sentinel-4 reveal air pollution hotspots — https://www.earth.com/news/first-images-from-sentinel-4-reveal-air-pollution-hotspots-around-the-world/
Future CO₂-driven warming and mesoscale horizontal stirring in the Arctic Ocean — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-025-02471-2
TESSERA: a global pixel-level embedding model for satellite time-series analysis — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.20380
COMBUST: 250 m-resolution mapping of burnable urban materials, 1975–2020 — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.08893
A dynamical model of uneven urban spatial structure from 388 million mobility and population records — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.10198
Mapped: The Median Age in Every Country — https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-the-median-age-in-every-country/
Bathymetric data resolution and false trends in coastal elevation (Wadden Sea) — https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02974-y
Public transport across Europe: how transit systems shape car dependence — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.06875
Four decades of Landsat imagery mapping development across the West Bank — https://www.linkedin.com/posts/krishna-karra-8765811b_we-used-four-decades-of-landsat-imagery-ugcPost-7374452179987795971-Cx0V/
High-resolution hyperspectral image generation preserving spectral signatures — https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.07103
Fractal and scaling patterns in 100+ years of U.S. patent data — https://www.nature.com/articles/s44260-025-00054-y
The SolarEV Paradox — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.15091
Human Flourishing Geographic Index (HFGI) from 2.6 billion geolocated U.S. tweets — https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.03915
Building OptiPath: A Cloud-Based system for Optimal Route Calculation using ArcGIS Enterprise — https://isprs-annals.copernicus.org/articles/X-G-2025/923/2025/
Garden City Design and suburban sustainability — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.13544
RINX 2.0: A Containerized Climate Raster Information Extraction System on OpenShift Cloud Environment — https://isprs-annals.copernicus.org/articles/X-G-2025/391/2025/
New USGS map reveals US geological features, rocks and sediments beneath your feet — https://www.earth.com/news/new-map-reveals-us-geological-features-rocks-and-sediments-beneath-your-feet/
deadtrees.earth: automatically segment standing deadwood from drone orthophotos — https://www.linkedin.com/posts/clemens-mosig-abb72916a_new-paper-out-automatically-segment-standing-ugcPost-7399420961042747392-yt5g
First globally consistent, 10 m resolution map of natural forests for 2020 — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-025-06097-z
Georeferenced catalogue of 483 Middle and Late Bronze Age settlements across western Anatolia — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-025-06241-9
VoxCity: a voxel-based framework for generating semantic city models from open geospatial data — https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019897152500119X?via%3Dihub
Estimating land surface temperature and the effect of green and blue patches — https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s44327-025-00158-z
Global warming and extreme day-to-day temperature swings — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-025-02486-9
A roadmap for accurate Arctic methane budgets — https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02963-1
Global trade and maritime chokepoint disruption — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65403-w
Rural road lighting across Africa from high-res nighttime satellite data — https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02915-9
A global-scale assessment of the 15-minute city concept — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65732-w
Satellite-based air pollution trends in Dhaka Megacity (2019–2024) — https://www.linkedin.com/posts/abu-naser-sajib_gis-remotesensing-airquality-activity-7398425708919939072-1QK6
Earth from Space: Eye of the Sahara (Richat Structure) — https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2025/11/Earth_from_Space_Eye_of_the_Sahara
Estimates of Population Highly Annoyed from Transportation Noise in the United States — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.16837
Constellations and shared symbolism across astronomical cultures — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.17573
Multilayered urban segregation: transit networks, amenity visits, and census data — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.07086
Global Building Atlas: worldwide building polygons and 3D LoD1 models — https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/17/6647/2025/
Network science and geospatial analytics: a Texas case study — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2301.13793
Temporal visitation patterns across 500+ cities from 90 million Foursquare check-ins — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2301.07748
Walrus from Space: unexpected walrus gathering in Svalbard — https://indiandefencereview.com/massive-gathering-gigantic-arctic-creature/
Urban network structural connectivity and Dengue spreading — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.00315
Building a Geospatial Lakehouse with Open Source and Databricks — https://towardsdatascience.com/building-a-geospatial-lakehouse-with-open-source-and-databricks-2/
Data Science in 2026: Is It Still Worth It? — https://towardsdatascience.com/data-science-in-2026-is-it-still-worth-it/
Urban development disparities in sub-Saharan Africa from high-precision building footprints — https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.16328
AI Papers to Read in 2025 — And Why They Matter for Anyone Working With AI — https://towardsdatascience.com/ai-papers-to-read-in-2025/
Landslide detection dataset from satellite data (Global Building Atlas team) — https://www.linkedin.com/posts/xiaoxiang-zhu-90b473228_landslides-satellite-earthobservation-ugcPost-7399385008156684288-9XgV
US Physical Map — https://usmaps.com/us-physical-map/
US Timezone Map — https://usmaps.com/us-timezone-map/

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