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An urban take on sustainable development policies and corresponding positioning strategies
npj Urban Sustainability, 2023 Cities have emerged as policy actors of global relevance in sustainable development, and their strengthened position challenges the primacy of national states in this area. To account for this shift and for potential emerging contestations between cities
Stefan Wittwer +2 more
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Impact of Slopes on ICESat-2 Elevation Accuracy Along the CHINARE Route in East Antarctica
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 2022 As the follow-on study to the assessment of ICESat-2 ice surface elevations, we assessed how they are influenced by the surface slopes, which are derived from the ICESat-2 elevations of the received photons and available in the land-ice surface heights ...
Tong Hao +6 more
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Virtual Reality: Developing a VR space for Academic activities [PDF]
ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2014 Virtual reality (VR) is extensively used in various applications; in industry, in academia, in business, and is becoming more and more affordable for end users from the financial point of view.
D. Kaimaris +2 more
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Regulating Façade Length for Streetscapes of Human Scale
Land, 2022 This paper starts from the hypothesis that streetscapes with shorter façade lengths are more pleasant for pedestrians than long and monotonous façades. It analyses four case studies where short façade lengths were implemented by applying different means ...
Marianne Gatti +2 more
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SUSCEPTIBILITY EVALUATION AND MAPPING OF CHINA'S LANDSLIDE DISASTER BASED ON MULTI-TEMPORAL GROUND AND REMOTE SENSING SATELLITE DATA [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2012 Under the circumstances of global climate change, nowadays landslide occurs in China more frequently than ever before. The landslide hazard and risk assessment remains an international focus on disaster prevention and mitigation.
C. Liu +5 more
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Satellite record reveals 1960s acceleration of Totten Ice Shelf in East Antarctica
Nature Communications, 2023 Wilkes Land and Totten Glacier (TG) in East Antarctica (EA) have been losing ice mass significantly since 1989. There is a lack of knowledge of long-term mass balance in the region which hinders the estimation of its contribution to global sea level rise.
Rongxing Li +10 more
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Aspects of the effect of confinement measures imposed at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic on outdoor air quality [PDF]
Constructii: Journal of Civil Engineering Research, 2021 Record levels of air pollution, leading to environmental degradation, deteriorating health and climate change, are affecting cities around the world. However, due to the confinement measures imposed at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, reductions ...
Vasilica VASILE +3 more
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UAV FOR MAPPING HISTORIC BUILDINGS: FROM 3D MODELLING TO BIM [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2019 Preventive actions of cultural heritage continuously emerge in order to preserve the identity of the respective civilizations, retain its cultural significance and ensure its accessibility to present and future generations.
E. Karachaliou +3 more
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Commentary: Land reform in South Africa
Town and Regional Planning, 2019 Since coming to power in 1994, the democratically elected government of South Africa has been trying to address the various issues concerning land. It has been acknowledged that the complex and emotive land question relates to inequality in terms of use,
Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development (DALRRD): Spatial Planning and Land Use Management branch
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OPEN SOURCE CLOUD-BASED TECHNOLOGIES FOR BIM [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2018 This paper presents a Cloud-based open source system for storing and processing data from a 3D survey approach. More specifically, we provide an online service for viewing, storing and analysing BIM.
S. Logothetis +3 more
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