English Intern
Earth Observation Research Cluster

Dr. Henri DEBRAY

Lehrstuhl für Fernerkundung


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

Institut für Geographie und Geologie
Lehrstuhl für Fernerkundung
John Skilton Str. 4a
97074 Würzburg

Urban Morphology of the Global Urbanization

2026[ to top ]
  • Droin, A.; Wurm, M.; Weigand, M.; Debray, H.; Köberl, M.; Taubenböck, H.. (2026): The influence of urban structure types on the x-minuteness of cities: An accessibility analysis of 15 German cities. In: Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science
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{\"o}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 ]
  • Friesen, J.; Kraff, N.; Kuffer, M.; Georganos, S.; Debray, H.; Taubenböck, H.; Samper, J.. (2025): Comparative Analysis of Manual Slum Identification Using Satellite Data: A Case Study of Medellin, Colombia. In: 2025 Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event (JURSE)Seiten, 1-4.
  • 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