Deutsch Intern
Earth Observation Research Cluster

Henri DEBRAY, Dipl-Ing., M.Sc.

Department of Remote Sensing

 +49 (0)931 31-88561
henri.debray@uni-wuerzburg.de

Institute for Geography and Geology
Department for Remote Sensing
John Skilton Str. 4a
97074 Würzburg

Urban Morphology of the Global Urbanization

2025[ to top ]
  • Debray, H.; Lemoine-Rodríguez, R.; Wurm, M.; Zhu, X.; Taubenböck, H. (2025): Distributions of types of urban fabrics around the world: Beyond narratives of global regularities and local specificities. In: Applied Geography, 184, 103770.
  • Mast, J.; Sapena, M.; Debray, H.; Inkoom, J. N.; Lemoine-Rodríguez, R.; Geiß, C.; Taubenböck, H. (2025): The digital urban frontier: Disparities in social media activity between consolidated and newly urbanized areas in Africa. In: Applied Geography, 181, 103687.
  • Debray, H.; Gassilloud, M.; Lemoine-Rodríguez, R.; Wurm, M.; Zhu, X.; Taubenböck, H. (2025): Universal patterns of intra-urban morphology: Defining a global typology of the urban fabric using unsupervised clustering. In: International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 141, 104610.
  • Taubenböck, H.; Mast, J.; Lemoine Rodríguez, R.; Debray, H.; Wurm, M.; Geiß, C. (2025): Was global urbanization from 1985 to 2015 efficient in terms of land consumption?. In: Habitat International, 160, 103397.
2023[ to top ]
  • Debray, H.; Kraff, N. J.; Zhu, X. X.; Taubenböck, H. (2023): Planned, unplanned, or in-between? A concept of the intensity of plannedness and its empirical relation to the built urban landscape across the globe. In: Landscape and Urban Planning, 233, 104711.
2020[ to top ]
  • Taubenböck, H.; Debray, H.; Qiu, C.; Schmitt, M.; Wang, Y.; Zhu, X. (2020): Seven city types representing morphologic configurations of cities across the globe. In: Cities, 105, 102814.

2024[ to top ]
  • Debray, H.; Kuffer, M.; Klaufus, C.; Persello, C.; Wurm, M.; Taubenb{ö}ck, H.; Pfeffer, K. (2024): Detection of Unmonitored Graveyards in VHR Satellite Data Using Fully Convolutional Networks. In: Urban Inequalities from Space: Earth Observation Applications in the Majority WorldSeiten, 167-88.

2025[ to top ]
  • Debray, H.; Lemoine-Rodriguez, R.; Zhu, X.; Taubenböck, H. (2025): The uneven distribution of morphological diversity: A global investigation on intra-urban forms. In: 2025 Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event (JURSE), 1-4.
  • Stark, T.; Wurm, M.; Debray, H.; Zhu, X. X.; Taubenböck, H. (2025): The Uncertainty of Slum Mapping