From 21-23 May 2008 a group of 21 international experts on remote sensing and slum monitoring met at the International Institute for Geoinformation Science and Earth Observation (ITC), The Netherlands (see appendix A for details of participants and the programme of the meeting). The focus of the meeting was to document methods for the identification and delineation of slum areas based on very high resolution (VHR) remote sensing and supplementary data sets (e.g. census and related GIS data on infrastructure and services). A major goal was to explore the potential of satellite imagery to assist the UN-HABITAT Global Urban Observatory (GUO) in producing global statistics on slums in support of Millennium Development Goal 7, Target 11, “improving the lives of 100 million slum dwellers”.
The main purpose of the meeting was to: 1. establish requirements for slum mapping for the Global Urban Observatory (GUO) of UN-HABITAT; 2. present state of the art methods using VHR imagery for slum mapping; 3. identify suitable methods for further development, knowledge transfer, and capacity building.
Resource collections
- Evaluating humanitarian action
- UN Habitat - Urban Response Collection
- Urban Response - Urban Crisis Preparedness and Risk Reduction
- Urban Response Collection - Community Engagement and Social Cohesion
- Urban Response Collection - Economic Recovery
- Urban Response Collection - Environment and Climate Change
- Urban Response Collection - Housing, Land and Property
- Urban Response Collection - Urban Crisis Response, Recovery and Reconstruction
- Urban Response Collection - Urban Resilience