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Estimation of Continuous Urban Sky View Factor from Landsat Data Using Shadow Detection
Remote Sensing, 2016 Sky View Factor (SVF, a dimensionless value between 0 and 1 representing obstructed and unobstructed sky, respectively) has an important influence on urban energy balance, and is a key contributor to the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect experienced by ...
Matus Hodul, Anders Knudby, Hung Chak Ho
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Research on Calculation Method of Total Solar Radiation of Urban Settlements Based on Parametric 3D Model [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2019 Solar radiation is a major factor in promoting the sustainable development of urban settlements. To understand the distribution of solar radiation in urban settlements, this paper develops the sky view factor (SVF) algorithm based on the parameterization
Chen Ruixin +5 more
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Buildings, 2022 High-rise residential estates are characterized by high floor area ratios, many floors, and similar green area ratios. Beijing is hot in summer, and shading is an important strategy to improve the outdoor thermal environment of residential estates in ...
Wenwen Li +3 more
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Mapping Europe into local climate zones [PDF]
, 2019 Cities are major drivers of environmental change at all scales and are especially at risk from the ensuing effects, which include poor air quality, flooding and heat waves.
Bechtel, Benjamin +3 more
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Journal of Contemporary Urban Affairs, 2021 Climate change and rising temperatures lead to an air-conditioning proliferation in summertime of the Mediterranean regions. This study links urban morphology to the microclimate.
Marjan Sansen +2 more
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Microclimate Environmental Assessment and Impact of Mountain City Pedestrian Streets in Summer [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2020 In mountainous cities, walking is an important form of transportation. The microclimate environment of pedestrian streets in summer affects the comfort of pedestrians, especially in hot summer cities.
Xiong Ke, Yang Zhenjing, Cheng Canhua
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Meteorologische Zeitschrift, 1992 The sky view factor (SVF) is of importance in the study of urban climates. There is a close connection between the SVF and the fluxes of longwave radiation.
Björn Holmer
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Tree crown geometry and its performances on human thermal comfort adjustment
Journal of Urban Management, 2021 Trees play an important part in landscaping as well as thermal environment adjustment. This study selected a satellite city of Sichuan Province in China, Xindu, for field measurement about tree’s crown characteristics on their cooling performances on ...
Jing Wang +6 more
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Derivation of Sky-View Factors from LIDAR Data [PDF]
, 2012 The use of Lidar (Light Detection and Ranging), an active light-emitting instrument, is becoming increasingly common for a range of potential applications.
Chapman, Lee, Kidd, Christopher
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GPU Accelerated Parallel Computing for Estimating Continuous Sky view Factor Map
, 2021 The sky view factor (SVF) that represents the fraction of visible sky on a hemisphere or the percentage of radiation reaching the planar ground in the entire hemisphere’s input radiation is an important parameter for urban climate studies. However, the
Xiaojiang Li, Guoqing Wang
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