Publications

Owusu, M., Nair, A., Jafari, A., Thomson, D., Kuffer, M., & Engstrom, R. (2024). Towards a scalable and transferable approach to map deprived areas using Sentinel-2 images and machine learning. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 109, 102075.

Owusu, M., Engstrom, R., Thomson, D., Kuffer, M., Mann, M.L. (2023) Mapping Deprived Urban Areas Using Open Geospatial Data and Machine Learning in Africa. Urban Sci., 7, 116.

Kuffer, M., Owusu, M., Oliveira, L., Sliuzas, R., & van Rijn, F. (2022). The Missing Millions in Maps:
Exploring Causes of Uncertainties in Global Gridded Population Datasets. ISPRS International Journal
of Geo-Information, 11(7), 403.

Owusu, M., Kuffer, M., Belgiu, M., Grippa, T., Lennert, M., Georganos, S., & Vanhuysse, S. (2021).
Towards user-driven earth observation-based slum mapping. Computers, Environment and Urban
Systems,1, 101681.

Georganos, S., Abascal, A., Kuffer, M., Wang, J., Owusu, M., & Vanhuysse, S. (2021). Is It All the Same?
Mapping and Characterizing Deprived Urban Areas Using WorldView-3 Superspectral Imagery. A Case
Study in Nairobi, Kenya.

Kuffer, M., Wang, J., Thomson, D. R., Georganos, S., Abascal, A., Owusu, M., & Vanhuysse, S. (2021).
Spatial Information Gaps on Deprived Urban Areas (Slums) in Low-and-Middle-Income-Countries: A
User-Centered Approach. Urban Science, 5(4), 72.

Publications

Conferences

Engstrom R., Bharadwaj A., Owusu M., Zhao Q., Hafner S., Kuffer M., Onyambu F.C., Kabaria C, Elias P., Odulana O., Tregonning G., Alugbin B., Baruwa K, Thomson D.R., Porto De Albuquerque J. (2025). Evaluating the Ability to Map the Degree of Informality within a City using a Scalable, Machine Learning Methodology in Nairobi, Kenya

Hinton, R. and Owusu, M. (2022). Creating Data that Matters, unSummit at State of the Map 2022

Engstrom R., Jafari A., Nair A., Gebril A., Hanna M., Osman M., Lieferfarb J., Reardon B., Owusu M., Thomson D., and Kuffer M., (2022). Deprived Area Mapping using Deep and Machine Learning on Sentinel 2 Imagery. 41st EARSeL Symposium, Cyprus

Owusu, M., Kuffer, M., Belgiu, M., Grippa, T., Lennert, M., Georganos, S., & Vanhuysse, S. (2021).
Geo-Ethics in Slum Mapping. 2021 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
IGARSS, 5700–5703.

Owusu, M., Herfort, B., & Lautenbach, S. (2021). Towards a framework for measuring local data
contribution in OpenStreetMap. Academic Track at State of the Map 2021, 16–18.