Urban heat islands are characterized by the increased temperature in urban areas compared with rural surroundings due to human-made interventions that replace natural lands buildings and roads. This study focuses on assessment utilization of using local nature-based solutions such as trees, sensitive landscaping types design strategies enhance microclimate neighborhood streets public realm dese...

Bioclimatic design can effectively affect the environmental thermal comfort level through changing surface of study area. Using Zhengzhou Beach Park as a case study, impact three different bioclimatic methods (changing pavement only, only and both design) on outdoor comfort, temperature, relative humidity, wind speed under Envi-met model is quantitatively analysed. The results show that schemes...

The current research proposes an integrated computational method to consider the effect of urban microclimate and higher air temperatures on assessment building energy demands annual basis. A one-way coupling procedure is established generate datasets typical weather years that can capture particularities as a function their morphological geometrical characteristics, thus providing global persp...

Urban residential building layouts have an impact on air temperature and thermal comfort. Research has shown that poorly designed can lead to discomfort. Thus, it is crucial analyze the relationship between temperature. We used ENVI-met 3D microclimate model simulate six typical explore diurnal seasonal variations in In addition, we physiological equivalent (PET) as evaluation index for comfort...

The International Commission on Radiological Protection has existed for 75 yearsand throughout that time has produced recommendations for the protection of peopleagainst the dangers of ionizing radiation. It recognized some 25 years ago that the envi-ronment should also be protected, but the policy was to assume that the protection ofpeople was sufficient to protect other specie...

Many algorithms have been proposed to automatically find spectral endmembers in hyperspectral data sets. Perhaps one of the most popular ones is the pixel purity index (PPI), available in the ENVI software from Exelis Visual Information Solutions. Although the algorithm has been widely used in the spectral unmixing community, it is highly time consuming as its precision increases asymptotically...

The most widely known remote-sensing data are satellite images (typically LANDSAT or other visible imagery), which are used in the geosciences for a multitude of applications, including landuse, urbanization, sea-ice expansion, to name only a few. Commonly, these remote-sensing data are analyzed with the help of commercial software systems (eg. ENVI, ERDAS-IMAGINE). Analysis methods employ the ...

Green urban infrastructures have a significant impact on climate mitigation, indoor and outdoor thermal comfort energy performance of buildings. In this paper, conditions saving for space heating cooling were investigated before after the use roof-integrated green technologies. Existing models tools applied to an area located in Turin (Italy). CitySim, ENVI-met SOLWEIG GIS-based model used eval...

12 Tiivistelmä − Referat − Abstract This paper described three of the challenges met by small software companies and their corresponding solutions. It focuses on the challenges met by small software companies from software engineering's point of view, and introduces several approaches, which have been demonstrated helpful to solve the specified problems. The paper is organized as follows. Chapt...