Research seminar on urban sustainability and resilience
Presented a remote sensing and AI framework for climate, carbon, and green-infrastructure analysis.
Pusan National University · SURF LAB
부산대학교
스마트시티 원격탐사 연구실
SURF Lab develops satellite-based urban intelligence for climate resilience, carbon mitigation, and smart-city decision-making.
About SURF Lab
Urban futures observed from space and translated through AI.
SURF Lab, the Smart Urban Remote Sensing Futures Lab, studies how cities grow, heat, emit carbon, and adapt. Our work combines satellite remote sensing, geospatial artificial intelligence, urban climatology, and smart-city analytics.
The lab focuses on building decision-ready urban datasets and models that help planners, scientists, and communities understand spatial inequalities in heat exposure, urban form, industrial land expansion, and green-infrastructure cooling potential.
What we build
From satellite observation to urban-resilience action
Our workflow links remote sensing and GeoAI with city-scale products and sustainability assessment.
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Remote Sensing + GeoAI
Satellite imagery, land surface temperature, nighttime lights, building data, mobile-network data, and urban sensors.
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Urban Products
Local climate zones, land-cover maps, industrial-land datasets, thermal-stress surfaces, and cooling-potential layers.
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Assessment
Urban climate resilience, carbon-emission implications, exposure inequalities, and targeted cooling strategies.
Research themes
Core research directions
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Urban Morphology Mapping
Mapping local climate zones and urban form using satellite imagery, building data, and deep learning.
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Heat-Resilience Assessment
Connecting urban morphology, land surface temperature, and population exposure to quantify heat risk.
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Industrial Land & CO₂
Monitoring industrial land expansion and its relationship with economic growth and carbon emissions.
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Tree Cooling Potential
Identifying where green infrastructure can most effectively reduce urban heat exposure.
Latest
News & highlights
Nature Communications paper on global urban heat
New work examines how climate and urban morphology shape global patterns of urban heat.
10-m industrial lands across 1000+ cities
Published a global urban industrial-land dataset for 2017–2023 in Scientific Data.