Global Urban Boundary Algorithms Remain Challenging
paulnovosad · x · 2026-07-15
The authors took a highly technical approach to finding a global urban boundary algorithm: continuously tweaking indicators and parameters to discover thresholds that work across regions.
However, in the Dhaka case, GHSL-UCDB still merges distant towns and large rural areas into a single massive boundary, exposing the method's limitations.
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