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Rapid urbanization increases the vulnerability of cities to natural hazards, especially earthquakes, as unplanned growth can aggravate structural risks and strain infrastructure. This research is based on a project -Automatic urbanization monitoring for risk assessment by remote sensing and Copernicus data- which aims to improve the detection of urban growth patterns and identify areas with increased seismic vulnerability. This project-s main goal is to develop and test a prototype for automatic urbanization monit...

The aim of this research was to determine the global horizontal irradiation (GHI) for Istria and Kvarner, two western regions in the Republic of Croatia with the GRASS GIS r.sun module and to compare it with the values of solar irradiation obtained from satellite images and ground measurements. Since the results obtained from the r.sun module have no quality control, the accuracy assessment was made on ground solar irradiation measurements obtained from Baseline Surface Radiation Network stations (BSRN). BSRN is a...