What began with a diploma thesis by Nicolas J. Kraff on the physical structure of slums in Mumbai, India, in 2011 has now culminated in a globally distributed dataset of building footprints covering 44 poverty and informal settlement areas across four continents. Between 2011 and 2020, the mapping work developed from the analysis of individual […] The post Nine years of mapping urban poverty: A globally distrubted building footprint dataset is now available appeared first on Earth Observation News .