Abstract Ornamental grasses are often used in gardens to improve biodiversity and as additional aesthetical resources. However, their use green roofs (GR) living walls (LW) is not so widespread it has been studied extensively. The aim of this work assess the performance seven grass species ( Imperata cylindrica ‘Red Baron’ , Acorus gramineus Stipa tenuissima ‘Pony Fails’ Carex flagellifera ‘Bro...

A strategy for building extraction and building reconstruction from dense LIDAR data is presented. Roofs are modeled as plane surfaces, connected along ridges and bordered by the eaves lines. Initial segmentation of terrain and non-terrain features is performed on grid data; after segmentation by region growing and region topology, classification is achieved based on a hierarchical set of aggre...

Reported are the environmental and demographic risk factors associated with the domestic infestation and density of Triatoma infestans in three heavily infested rural villages in Santiago del Estero Province, Argentina. In a one-factor unadjusted analysis, the number of T. infestans captured per person-hour was associated significantly and negatively with the use of domestic insecticides by hou...

This study focuses on building modeling from DSM. The objective is to develop a highly automatic system of 3D modeling. 3D reconstruction of buildings has been an active research topic in digital city and GIS applications. Various data types have been used in the researches, including multi-image, image integrated with GIS map or planning map, image integrated with DSM, etc. There are hardly co...

Vegetation as an essential positive sustainable element of urban spaces has recently gathered increased attention from landscape architects and urban planners. Vegetation growing in urban settings can bring environmental benefits that enhance the health and well-being of citizens through, for example, improved air quality, increased thermal insulation for buildings, reduction of the urban heat-...

Urban nature increases the liveability of cities and can improve their resilience to climate change. However, value urban often remains unknown, which results in its omission from planning decisions. Particularly valuation small-sized understudied. This study therefore employs a stated preference methodology estimate economic seven types small four associated ecosystem services. We perform two ...

Many reinforced concrete structures are built side by in our cities. There very few applications of earthquake joints adjacent apartment buildings, most them were constructed completely adjacent. Adjoining buildings or any property should be protected from damage collapse during construction, restoration and demolition work. In case the static condition, protection must supplied for foundations...

Installing green roofs and walls in urban areas is suggested to supply multiple ecosystem services of benefit human health well-being. In a three-step literature review, we examined current knowledge on the link between public walls. A systematic search identified 69 scientific articles roofs/walls with discourse. These were categorized according type path covered (reduction temperature, air po...