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Building and Environment publishes our new take on the sky view factor.

The International Journal of Geographical Information Science publishes our advancement enabling more accurate street-level data for urban planners.

Sustainable Cities and Society publishes our novel method to multimodal prediction of climatic parameters using street-level and satellite imagery.

Congratulations!

The amazing open map of the world built by volunteers started two decades ago.

Scientific Reports publishes our collaborative paper that presents a method to detect mosquito breeding sites using satellite and street view imagery.

Building and Environment publishes our novel method to assess the impressions of architecture at the urban scale.

A big open dataset with 10M images, together with a paper in the ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. And more.

Continued collaboration with overseas research groups in GeoAI.

We had three papers at the flagship conference in 3D GIS and urban digital twins, hosted by the University of Vigo in Spain.

Cities publishes our collaborative paper that presents a workflow for revealing spatiotemporal dynamics of road CO2 emissions and decarbonization potentials.

Building and Environment publishes our collaborative paper that presents a systematic literature review on this topic.

Discussions and exchanges at leading universities in China.

Cities publishes our new comprehensive literature review, which was semi-automated to analyse the rich body of knowledge.

QS publishes its 2025 rankings, maintaining NUS at #8, the first and only university in Asia to be ranked top 10 globally.

Participation in the Science of Cities and Young Leaders Symposiums at WCS.

Recently, Urban AI has become an emerging field that combines AI, spatial computing, and urban science to address complex challenges.

Computer Graphics Forum publishes our collaborative paper that characterizes published works along three main dimensions.

Computers, Environment and Urban Systems publishes our new research on mitigating the lack of information of the building stock.

Continued collaboration with overseas research groups in GeoAI.

Our open science efforts continue to be recognised.

Public Transport publishes our collaborative paper that presents a powerful platform designed for visualizing and analyzing GTFS data.

Technological Forecasting and Social Change publishes our collaborative paper that presents a classification of urban digital twins with respect to their technological maturity.

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation publishes our collaborative extensive systematic review.

The Singapore Land Authority (SLA) hosted the 5 Cities Connect (5CC+) Meeting in Singapore.

Building and Environment publishes our collaborative paper that presents a new method to interpolate microclimate data at a detailed spatial and temporal resolution.

We contributed to this conference with two papers, which are now available in a book that is part of the Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography.

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction publishes our new review paper on urban disaster risk management since the Sendai Framework’s adoption in 2015 until 2022.

Computers, Environment and Urban Systems publishes our new research on using unsupervised machine learning in understanding the urban form.

Journal of Remote Sensing publishes our collaborative paper that presents a comprehensive review on VGI.

We had an amazing year. Thanks everyone!

Urban Thinkers Campus workshop session and visiting Chung-Ang University.

Continued collaboration with overseas research groups in GeoAI.

A new consolidated effort of the Geospatial AI community and our contribution focused on Urban Sensing.

Contribution to the main conference of The American Geophysical Union (AGU) and visits to four universities.

Cities publishes our new research on using historical street-level imagery for data-driven urban planning and real estate.

Scientific Data publishes our collaborative paper that presents a new kind of an urban dataset.

An open data-sharing platform serving as a one-stop shop for the data necessary for vital categories of building energy research.

Contribution to the International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation.

ICGIS 2023 and visiting Hanyang University.

Urban Analytics for Transforming Cities and Regions: Tools, Methods and Applications.

UAL is leading the project Semantic Urban Elements at the Singapore-ETH Centre and in collaboration with Swiss partners.

The published research led by our master graduate Xinyu Chen has been recognised with a best journal paper award.

Our junior scientists in the spotlight.

Realising Computational Design of Complex Geometry in Architecture.

Scientific Data publishes our open dataset from the Urbanity project to support network analysis.

Landscape and Urban Planning publishes our work on unveiling multiscale planning paradigms of 144 cities with a novel deep learning approach.

Environment and Planning B publishes our position paper on explainable spatially explicit GeoAI.

ICUC11 was organised by the University of New South Wales.

This year’s theme: Geospatial Big Data and Artificial Intelligence for Cities.