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Mainstreaming the local climate zone framework for climate-resilient cities [PDF]

Nature Communications
The local climate zone framework is valuable for building climate-resilient cities but is limited in application. This limitation can be resolved by addressing three aspects: transdisciplinary dialog, global atlas construction, and cost–benefit ...
Jun Yang, Wenbo Yu, Alexander Baklanov, Baojie He, Quansheng Ge   +4 more
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Local Climate Zone in Xi’an City: A Novel Classification Approach Employing Spatial Indicators and Supervised Classification

Buildings, 2023
The Local Climate Zone (LCZ), as a foundational element of urban climate zone classification proposed by Oke and Stewart, categorizes urban surface types based on 10 influential parameters affecting the urban heat island effect, such as building density,
Duo Xu, Qian Zhang, Dian Zhou, Yujun Yang, Yiquan Wang, Alessandro Rogora   +5 more
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Spatial Association Rules and Thermal Environment Differentiation Evaluation of Local Climate Zone and Urban Functional Zone

Land, 2023
Urban heat islands (UHIs) caused by urbanization have become a major issue affecting the sustainable development of the ecological environment. The distribution of UHIs is mainly affected by the reflection and transmission of heat radiation caused by ...
Yinuo Xu, Wei Hou, Chunxiao Zhang
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Developing Comprehensive Local Climate Zone Land Use Datasets for Advanced High-Resolution Urban Climate and Environmental Modeling

Remote Sensing, 2023
The Local Climate Zone (LCZ) classification scheme is a vital method of building a category dataset for high-resolution urban land. For the development of urban meteorology, air pollution and related disciplines, the high-resolution classification data ...
Yongwei Wang, Danmeng Zhao, Qian Ma
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Integrating satellite and street-level images for local climate zone mapping

International Journal of Applied Earth Observations and Geoinformation, 2023
Timely and accurate local climate zone (LCZ) classification maps are valuable for urban climate studies. The integration of remote sensing and street-level images is promising to produce high-quality LCZ maps, since the former can efficiently capture the
Rui Cao, Cai Liao, Qing Li, Wei Tu, Rui Zhu, Nianxue Luo, Guoping Qiu, Wenzhong Shi   +7 more
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Evaluating the Accuracy of Different Local Climate Zone Maps [PDF]

The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
Local Climate Zones (LCZs) are essential for understanding urban climates, providing crucial information for urban planning, environmental monitoring, and addressing challenges like the urban heat island effect.
A. S. Akbulut, E. Sertel
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Dynamic urban morphology mapping in Chinese cities based on local climate zone approach [PDF]

Scientific Data
Urbanization have been significantly reshaping the form of urban areas and natural landscapes, leading to complex urban morphologies. In 2012, the Local Climate Zone (LCZ) classification was proposed to address this issue and has since been widely ...
Hanguang Yu, Yang Yang, Jiyao Zhao, Meng Cai, Ran Wang, Guangzhao Chen, Chunxiao Zhang, Le Yu   +7 more
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Local Climate Zone Classification Scheme Can Also Indicate Local-Scale Urban Ventilation Performance: An Evidence-Based Study

Atmosphere, 2020
Studies on urban ventilation indicate that urban ventilation performance is highly dependent on urban morphology. Some studies have linked local-scale urban ventilation performance with the local climate zone (LCZ) that is proposed for surface ...
Ziqi Zhao, Lidu Shen, Liguang Li, Hongbo Wang, Bao-Jie He   +4 more
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Deep learning-based local climate zone classification using Sentinel-1 SAR and Sentinel-2 multispectral imagery

Geo-spatial Information Science, 2022
As a newly developed classification system, the LCZ scheme provides a research framework for Urban Heat Island (UHI) studies and standardizes the worldwide urban temperature observations.
Lin Zhou, Zhenfeng Shao, Shugen Wang, Xiao Huang   +3 more
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Improving Local Climate Zone Classification Using Incomplete Building Data and Sentinel 2 Images Based on Convolutional Neural Networks

Remote Sensing, 2020
Recent studies have enhanced the mapping performance of the local climate zone (LCZ), a standard framework for evaluating urban form and function for urban heat island research, through remote sensing (RS) images and deep learning classifiers such as ...
Cheolhee Yoo, Yeonsu Lee, Dongjin Cho, Jungho Im, Daehyeon Han   +4 more
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