The local climate zone (LCZ) system provides a universal classification mechanism for
urban and natural landscapes and plays an increasingly important role in urban climate …

As the world continues to urbanize at an unprecedented rate, the energy demand in cities is
rising. Buildings account for over 75% of all the energy consumed in cities and are …

Abstract Knowledge of building height is critical for understanding the urban development
process. High-resolution optical satellite images can provide fine spatial details within urban …

Landsat imagery is an unparalleled freely available data source that allows reconstructing
land-cover and land-use change, including urban form. This paper addresses the challenge …

The increasing availability of 3-D urban data yields new insights into urban developments
and their implications for population density, energy consumption, and the carbon budget …

Elevation datasets (eg point clouds) are an essential but often unavailable ingredient for the
construction of 3D city models. We investigate in this paper to what extent can 3D city …

Satellite images can provide valuable information about the presented urban landscape
scenes to remote sensing and telecommunication applications. Obtaining information from …

Building heights are one of the crucial data for comprehending the functions of urban
systems. Employing optical remote sensing imagery, the shadow-based method is one of …

Accurately building height estimation from remote sensing imagery is an important and
challenging task. However, the existing shadow-based building height estimation methods …

The objective of any radiometric correction of airborne and spaceborne imagery of optical
sensors is the extraction of physical earth surface parameters such as spectral albedo …