Solar Potential in the Himalayan Landscape

Transformation in the Traditional Himalayan Landscape: The Rise of the Trekking Hotel in Nepal

This article explores the role of tourism development in cultural persistence in the Nepal Himalayas. It documents recent transformations in the material landscape in the context of the burgeoning number of new " trekker " hotels. It suggests that despite the ostensible newness of such hotels as a typology, and despite their having resulted from the phenomenon of global tourism, their morpholog...

Certifying the Potential Energy Landscape

It is highly desirable for numerical approximations to stationary points for a potential energy landscape to lie in the corresponding quadratic convergence basin. However, it is possible that an approximation may lie only in the linear convergence basin, or even in a chaotic region, and hence not converge to the actual stationary point when further optimization is attempted. Proving that a nume...

Solar energy potential on roofs and facades in an urban landscape

A solar 3D urban model was developed for the calculation and visualisation of the solar energy potential of buildings, integrating the potential of roofs with that of facades. To assess this potential, a digital surface model (DSM) of the urban region was built from LiDAR data and a solar radiation model based on climatic observations was applied. A shadow algorithm was developed in order to ca...

Towards a landscape potential

The Solar Potential of Auckland