Laser scanning is a new technology for obtaining Digital Surface Models (DSM) of the earth surface. It is fast method for sampling the earth surface with a high density and high point accuracy. In this paper a procedure for building detection and roof extraction from the DSM is presented. The procedure starts by re-sampling elevation as obtained by laser scanning into regular grid. The core par...

We used MRI studies of four patients to investigate the lesions responsible for landmark agnosia. A detailed investigation of the relationship between the symptoms and the lesions suggests that the right posterior part of the parahippocampal gyrus is critical for the acquisition of novel information about buildings and landscapes, and that the same region plus the anterior half of the lingual g...

In France, buildings account for a large part of the energy consumption and carbon emissions. Both are mainly due to Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning (HVAC) systems. So, the present work deals with the predictive control of multizone HVAC systems in nonresidential buildings. We used the PMV (Predicted Mean Vote) index as a thermal comfort indicator and developed low-order ANN-based mod...

The historic buildings represent an important part of the built environment. The possibility to reuse spaces that represent the local cultural heritage plays an important role in maintaining the identity of a population and its traditions. The steps to be faced for smart renovation of historic buildings and recent constructions are not the same, as in the first case artistic and architectural c...

The motivation, success and prevalence of full-scale monitoring of constructed buildings vary considerably across the hazard of concern (earthquakes, strong winds, etc.), due in part to various fiscal and life safety motivators. Yet while the challenges of successful deployment and operation of large-scale monitoring initiatives are significant, they are perhaps dwarfed by the challenges of dat...

The main objective of this research project is to residual deformation and collapse mechanism of structural system and to assess the seismic demand of this system. In this study three major works are developed: a. Develop a physical-based inelastic hysteretic model which contains stiffness and strength degradation, pinching and residual deformation, b. Based on the proposed model the seismic de...

This study was an add-on study to the National Air Emission Monitoring Study (NAEMS). The objective of this study was to measure odor emissions and corresponding concentrations and emissions of target odorous gases. Odor and odorous gas measurements at four NAEMS sites (dairy barns in Wisconsin-WI5B and Indiana-IN5B, swine finisher barn in Indiana-IN3B and swine gestation/farrowing barns in Iow...

The problems of lateral displacement control and usability of a structure are treated as the main part in high-rise buildings. Lateral displacement and usability control can be effectively managed through stiffness design. In this paper the non-dominated sorted genetic algorithm, NSGA-II, which may be used to satisfy many objective functions is applied to the structural design of high-rise buil...

In urban environments, multipath and obscuration by buildings decreases the ability of radar systems to detect targets and also increases the number of false alarms caused by image artefacts. To reduce these problems this paper proposes a network of low-cost easilydeployable radar sensors that are set up in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar configuration. An analysis is given of the...