In times of higher market prices of fossil fuels and to meet the increasingly environmental and economic threads of climate change renewable energy must play a major role for global energy supply. This paper focuses on a new method for fully automated solar potential assessment of roof planes from airborne LiDAR data and uses the full 3D information for both, roof plane detection and solar pote...

BACKGROUND Debate exists on the proper relation of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) footprint with the intercondylar notch in anatomic ACL reconstructions. Patient-specific graft placement based on the inclination of the intercondylar roof has been proposed. The relationship between the intercondylar roof and native ACL footprint on the tibia has not previously been quantified. HYPOTHESIS...

recently, with increasing of interest of all people especially young people and teenagers to sports in iran in parallel the tendency of investors both in governmental and private parts is increased ,and in this part the special places and spaces of sport was not departed , and billion rials (iran’s currencies) is paid for making some places for sport or equipped the old building .in this part f...

3D city modelling is a rapidly growing research area in the field of feature extraction. As the demand for 3D data increases, so does the necessity for higher detail building models. The use of aerial imagery and photogrammetric processing has been dominant in the field of feature extraction for several decades. Recently this dominance has been challenged by laser scanning techniques which offe...

The need to prepare cities for climate change adaptation requests the urban modeller community to implement sustainable adaptation strategies within their models to be tested against specific city morphologies and scenarios. Greening city roofs is part of these strategies. In this context, the GREENROOF module for TEB (town energy balance) has been developed to model the interactions between bu...

In hot arid regions, cooling buildings by passive techniques is very important regarding energy saving and the need to keep clean the environment. In such areas, domed and vaulted roofs are widely used for centuries, such as in the Middle East region and central part of Iran. In this article analysis is made to explore east–west direction of wind flow around north–south vaulted roofs and flat r...

The article presents a cartographic generalisation approach for 3D building models with regard to the thematic visualisation of urban landscapes. Based on our earlier work to utilise approximating planes for generating simplified cell decompositions of the input objects, a new extension is introduced that guarantees well-formed roof structures. This is accomplished by first creating a simplifie...

The drainage of low-sloped roof systems involves multiple design professionals, and often each has a different opinion as to their design responsibility. Roofing issues have been identified as being a number one source of litigation, and rain-induced roof collapses continue to occur with alarming frequency. With the backdrop of several rain-induced roof collapses, this paper illustrates the com...

This paper describes an improved version of our system for robust detection of buildings with a gable roof in varying rural areas from very-high-resolution aerial images. The algorithm follows a custom-made design, extracting key features close to modeling, such as roof ridges and gutters, in order to allow a large freedom in roof appearances. It starts by detecting straight line-segments as ro...