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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">ISPRS-Archives</journal-id>
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<journal-title>The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">ISPRS-Archives</abbrev-journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="nlm-ta">Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.</abbrev-journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="epub">2194-9034</issn>
<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/isprs-archives-XLIX-B1-2026-615-2026</article-id>
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<article-title>Urban-Graph: Bridging Local SLAM and Global Earth Observation for Fine-Grained Urban LCLU Mapping</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Yu</surname>
<given-names>Minghao</given-names>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<sup>2</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Wang</surname>
<given-names>Chenyang</given-names>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3">
<sup>3</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Tang</surname>
<given-names>Youchen</given-names>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Wu</surname>
<given-names>Xiao</given-names>
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<sup>4</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Zhou</surname>
<given-names>Jian</given-names>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>Wuhan University, State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, 430070 Wuhan, China</addr-line>
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<label>2</label>
<addr-line>Hubei Luojia Laboratory, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China</addr-line>
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<label>3</label>
<addr-line>State Key Laboratory of Marine Thermal Energy and Power, Wuhan Second Ship Design and Research Institute, 430070 Wuhan, China</addr-line>
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<label>4</label>
<addr-line>Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Key Laboratory of Metallurgical Equipment and Control Technology, Ministry of Education, 430081 Wuhan, China</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>22</day>
<month>07</month>
<year>2026</year>
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<volume>XLIX-B1-2026</volume>
<fpage>615</fpage>
<lpage>620</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2026 Minghao Yu et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
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<license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this licence, visit <ext-link ext-link-type="uri"  xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</ext-link></license-p>
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<p>Urban scene understanding requires both global geographic context and local structural detail. Earth Observation (EO) imagery supports large-scale land-cover and land-use (LCLU) mapping, but in urban areas it often merges heterogeneous surfaces into broad built-up classes. Vehicle-based sensors such as LiDAR and cameras recover these local structures, but their maps can drift and often remain in a local coordinate frame. We present urban graph, which combines overhead EO priors, vehicle observations, and fixed roadside anchors in a hierarchical semantic scene graph. Coarse georeferenced regions from EO data are updated with local observations, while a factor graph jointly optimises SLAM constraints and global geodetic constraints. The resulting graph is projected back to the overhead layer to separate coarse urban classes into finer semantic components. Experiments in CARLA show improved global alignment, reduced drift, and more detailed projection of local semantics into EO space.</p>
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