Sebastian Hafner

According to our database, Sebastian Hafner authored at least 19 papers between 2021 and 2025.

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2025

Assessing urban sustainability in the Belt and Road region: a city-level analysis of SDG 11 indicators using earth observations.

Xuting Liu, Linlin Lu, Huadong Guo, Michele Melchiorri, Sebastian Hafner, Yifang Ban, Martino Pesaresi, Qingting Li, Muhammad Fahad Baqa

Int. J. Digit. Earth, December, 2025

Towards Modeling Road Access Deprivation in Sub-Saharan Africa Based on a New Accessibility Metric and Road Quality.

Sebastian Hafner, Qunshan Zhao, Bunmi Alugbin, Kehinde Baruwa, Caleb Cheruiyot, Sabitu Sa'adu Da'u, Xingyi Du, Peter Elias, Helen Elsey, Ryan N. Engstrom, Serkan Girgin, Diego Fabian Pajarito Grajales, Esther Judith, Caroline Kabaria, Monika Kuffer, Oluwatoyin Odulana, Francis C. Onyambu, Adenike Shonowo, Dana R. Thomson, Mingyu Zhu, João Porto de Albuquerque

CoRR, December, 2025

Continuous Urban Change Detection From Satellite Image Time Series With Temporal Feature Refinement and Multitask Integration.

Sebastian Hafner, Heng Fang, Hossein Azizpour, Yifang Ban

IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens., 2025

DisasterAdaptiveNet: A robust network for multi-hazard building damage detection from very-high-resolution satellite imagery.

Sebastian Hafner, Sebastian Gerard, Josephine Sullivan, Yifang Ban

Int. J. Appl. Earth Obs. Geoinformation, 2025

Towards a Spatial Measure of SDG 11.1.1: Open Data for Urban Deprivation Mapping.

Sai Ganesh Veeravalli, Florencio Campomanes V, Sebastian Hafner, Stefanos Georganos, Monika Kuffer, John Friesen, Dana R. Thomson, Robert Ndugwa, Dennis Mwaniki, Ángela Abascal, Peter Elias, Tobi Eniolu Morakinyo, Julio Cesar Pedrassoli, Gabriel de Oliveira, Anthony Boanada-Fuchs, Boris Zerjav, Juan Manuel D'Attoli

Proceedings of the Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event, 2025

Mapping Indicators for Morphological Informality in Nairobi, Kenya Using Satellite Imagery.

Sebastian Hafner, Manuella Comerio de Paulo, Qunshan Zhao, Monika Kuffer, Ryan N. Engstrom, Dana R. Thomson, Francis C. Onyambu, Caroline Kabaria, Peter Elias, Ángela Abascal, Grant Tregonning, Oluwatoyin Odulana, Adenike Shonowo, Bunmi Alugbin, Kehinde Baruwa, Alexandra Middleton, João Porto de Albuquerque

Proceedings of the Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event, 2025

Evaluating the Ability to Map the Degree of Informality within a City using a Scalable, Machine Learning Methodology in Nairobi, Kenya.

Ryan N. Engstrom, Akhil Bharadwaj, Maxwell Owusu, Qunshan Zhao, Sebastian Hafner, Monika Kuffer, Francis C. Onyambu, Caroline Kabaria, Peter Elias, Oluwatoyin Odulana, Grant Tregonning, Bunmi Alugbin, Kehinda Baruwa, Dana R. Thomson, João Porto de Albuquerque

Proceedings of the Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event, 2025

2024

Cross-Modal Hashing With Feature Semi-Interaction and Semantic Ranking for Remote Sensing Ship Image Retrieval.

Yuxi Sun, Yunming Ye, Jian Kang, Rubén Fernández-Beltran, Yifang Ban, Sebastian Hafner, Xutao Li, Chuyao Luo, Antonio Plaza

IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens., 2024

PANGAEA: A Global and Inclusive Benchmark for Geospatial Foundation Models.

Valerio Marsocci, Yuru Jia, Georges Le Bellier, Dávid Kerekes, Liang Zeng, Sebastian Hafner, Sebastian Gerard, Eric Brune, Ritu Yadav, Ali Shibli, Heng Fang, Yifang Ban, Maarten Vergauwen, Nicolas Audebert, Andrea Nascetti

CoRR, 2024

Continuous Urban Change Detection from Satellite Image Time Series with Temporal Feature Refinement and Multi-Task Integration.

Sebastian Hafner, Heng Fang, Hossein Azizpour, Yifang Ban

CoRR, 2024

2023

Semi-Supervised Urban Change Detection Using Multi-Modal Sentinel-1 SAR and Sentinel-2 MSI Data.

Sebastian Hafner, Yifang Ban, Andrea Nascetti

Remote. Sens., November, 2023

Mapping Urban Population Growth from Sentinel-2 MSI and Census Data Using Deep Learning: A Case Study in Kigali, Rwanda.

Sebastian Hafner, Stefanos Georganos, Theodomir Mugiraneza, Yifang Ban

Proceedings of the Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event, 2023

Investigating Imbalances Between SAR and Optical Utilization for Multi-Modal Urban Mapping.

Sebastian Hafner, Yifang Ban, Andrea Nascetti

Proceedings of the Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event, 2023

Multi-Modal Deep Learning for Multi-Temporal Urban Mapping with a Partly Missing Optical Modality.

Sebastian Hafner, Yifang Ban

Proceedings of the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2023

2022

Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 Data Fusion for Urban Change Detection Using a Dual Stream U-Net.

Sebastian Hafner, Andrea Nascetti, Hossein Azizpour, Yifang Ban

IEEE Geosci. Remote. Sens. Lett., 2022

Monitoring urbanization and environmental impact in Kigali, Rwanda using Sentinel-2 MSI data and ecosystem service bundles.

Theodomir Mugiraneza, Sebastian Hafner, Jan Haas, Yifang Ban

Int. J. Appl. Earth Obs. Geoinformation, 2022

A census from heaven: Unraveling the potential of deep learning and Earth Observation for intra-urban population mapping in data scarce environments.

Stefanos Georganos, Sebastian Hafner, Monika Kuffer, Catherine Linard, Yifang Ban

Int. J. Appl. Earth Obs. Geoinformation, 2022

Urban Change Detection Using a Dual-Task Siamese Network and Semi-Supervised Learning.

Sebastian Hafner, Yifang Ban, Andrea Nascetti

Proceedings of the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2022

2021

Exploring the Fusion of Sentinel-1 SAR and Sentinel-2 MSI Data for Built-Up Area Mapping Using Deep Learning.

Sebastian Hafner, Yifang Ban, Andrea Nascetti

Proceedings of the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2021