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Haiyang Xu, Huaxing Lu and Shichen Liu
The Sky View Factor (SVF) stands as a critical metric for quantitatively assessing urban spatial morphology and its estimation method based on Street View Imagery (SVI) has gained significant attention in recent years. However, most existing Street View-...
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Deyong Hu, Manqing Liu, Yufei Di, Chen Yu and Yichen Wang
Urban 3D surface reflectance is a critical parameter for the modeling of surface biophysical processes. It is of great significance to enhance the accuracy of reflectance in urban areas. Based on the urban solar radiative transfer (USRT) model, this stud...
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Satoshi Hirabayashi, Tsutomu Abe, Fumiko Imamura and Chie Morioka
Heat stress is an issue for marathon races in the summer, such as the one planned for the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympic games. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government is planning to grow existing street trees’ canopies to enlarge their shade to reduce air te...
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Jérémy Bernard, Erwan Bocher, Gwendall Petit and Sylvain Palominos
The sky view factor (SVF) has an important role in the analysis of the urban micro-climate. A new vector-based SVF calculation tool was implemented in a free and open source Geographic Information System named OrbisGIS. Its accuracy and computational per...
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Ludmilla Alves Fernandes, Leonardo Brandão do Prado and Edson Soares Fialho
The intense process of urbanization and the expansion of the urban area in the last few decades has led to contrasting settings in the urban area of Viçosa (MG), which undoubtedly reverberate differently in the thermal field. In order to understand the n...
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Rubab Saher, Haroon Stephen and Sajjad Ahmad
The estimation of urban irrigation water requirements has often been approached from an agricultural perspective. This approach is flawed, as the intention of estimating agricultural water is to optimize yield. Recent studies have reported that urban irr...
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Ismael Luiz Hoppe, Cassio Arthur Wollmann, André Schroder Buss, João Paulo Assis Gobo and Salman Shooshtarian
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Sytse Koopmans, Reinder Ronda, Gert-Jan Steeneveld, Albert A.M. Holtslag and Albert M.G. Klein Tank
In the Netherlands, there will be an urgent need for additional housing by the year 2040, which mainly has to be realized within the existing built environment rather than in the spatial extension of cities. In this data-driven study, we investigated the...
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Pamela Smith and Cristián Henríquez
This paper presents research carried out in the city of Chillán, a medium size city located on the southern limit of the Chilean Mediterranean domain, at 36°36's south latitude. Chillán provides a good representative example of warm summers in central an...
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Zhonghua Gou, Maryam Khoshbakht and Behnam Mahdoudi
A Good learning environment should support students? choices and attract them to stay. Focusing on outdoor views, this research explores two questions: How important outdoor views are in seat selection in learning environments? How do the view elements i...
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Jane Loveday, Grant K. Loveday, Joshua J. Byrne, Boon-lay Ong and Gregory M. Morrison
Loss of green space in our suburban environment is contributing to increased urban heat. The material properties of surface treatments or landscape elements (LEs) are a determining factor in the amount, timing, and type of radiation present in the local ...
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Mohammad Paydar, Asal Kamani Fard and Soheil Sabri
Although an increase in walking is recommended to improve physical activity and public health, especially among older adults, the frequency of outdoor pedestrian activities, including walking, should be reduced when there is increased air pollution. Ther...
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Justus A. Quanz, Susanne Ulrich, Daniel Fenner, Achim Holtmann and Jonas Eimermacher
The urban climate, especially the near-surface air temperature ( ), is influenced to large amounts by urban surface properties on the local-scale. Landsc...
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Justus A. Quanz, Susanne Ulrich, Daniel Fenner, Achim Holtmann and Jonas Eimermacher
The urban climate, especially the near-surface air temperature (
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