Lisbon is both a historical and modern city having a dynamic landscape, where increasingly diverse urban forms and materials coexist. This complex reality is possibly causing the feature extraction process from imagery to become more challenging. This study tests the semiautomated extraction of buildings from a QuickBird image in urban areas with different characteristics, and explores the impa...

Today, we see that despite the plans and decisions made about the historical fabric, the people are very faintly seen and conservation the historic fabric of urban is one of the main concerns management urban In the absence of efficient management and lack of attention to the needs of local people, the historical Fabric Urban is destroyed. In this article are examined Ways other than physical m...

The air we breathe inside buildings dominates overall inhalation exposure to most air pollutants, whether of indoor or outdoor origin. The same is true for our exposure to microorganisms. Over the past three decades much has been learned about chemicals (in gas and particle phases) in building air, including typical levels, sources, fate, and control. Far less has been learned about the types, ...

The diversion of natural river courses and subsequent filling by alluvial deposits or anthropic intervention has been hidden by urban development in the majority of the cities. The research we conducted involved monitoring the evolution of a river course and reconnaissance of the original morphology of the fluvial systems. Our research was applied to the section of the River Beiro that flows th...

The Mao-Kung Ting is one of the most precious artifacts in the National Palace Museum. Having five-hundred-character inscription cast inside, the Mao-Kung Ting is regarded as a very important historical document, dating back to 800 B.C.. Motivated by revealing the great nature of the artifact and interpreting it into a meaningful narrative, we have proposed an innovative Virtual Exhibition Syst...