Sky View Factors from Synthetic Fisheye Photos for Thermal Comfort Routing—A Case Study in Phoenix, Arizona

The Sky View Factor (SVF) is a dimension-reduced representation of urban form and one of the major variables in radiation models that estimate outdoor thermal comfort. Common ways of retrieving SVFs in urban environments include capturing fisheye photographs or creating a digital 3D city or elevatio...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ariane Middel, Jonas Lukasczyk, Ross Maciejewski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cogitatio 2017-03-01
Series:Urban Planning
Subjects:
MRT
PET
Online Access:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/urbanplanning/article/view/855