the cities are home to half of the people who live on the planet earth. they stimulate economic growth and cultural prosperity, but they are also the center of pollution and poverty. therefore, the livability of cities, in particular urban distressed areas, has always been one of the issues and challenges facing thinkers in different fields of urban management. however, the planning to improve ...

considering numerous problems related to the old textures, sustainable development canbe mentioned as the most efficient approach to avoid consequent shortcomings. the methodology adoptedin the present paper is of analytical–descriptive type. using the mentioned method, the data werecollected through the field and documentary studies. the statistical society of present paper includesspecialists...

This paper proposes a novel automatic image registration method designed for urban scenes containing tall 3D objects under significant viewpoint changes. Our method is based on the fusion of two kinds of features: the interest regions and the edge groups, which we believe are more suitable than conventional local textures for such scenes. Many existing methods face matching difficulty either be...

This work explores the double effect of urban compactness on building energy performance in a Mediterranean climate, namely the increase of urban heat island (UHI) intensity and the decrease of solar radiation availability on building façades. The energy demand of a test apartment has been calculated under varying conditions of UHI intensity and solar radiation for different urban textures. Res...

Urban built-up area information is required by various applications. However, urban built-up area extraction using moderate resolution satellite data, such as Landsat series data, is still a challenging task due to significant intra-urban heterogeneity and spectral confusion with other land cover types. In this paper, a new method that combines spectral information and multivariate texture is p...