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Modeling the urban heat island at a winter event in Três Lagoas, Brazil
(2021-05-01)
The urban heat island is one of the most investigated environmental problems at the local climate scale. It is a thermal anomaly resulting from the difference in temperature between urban areas and the surrounding rural ...
Application of Remote Sensing and Cellular Automata Model to Analyze and Simulate Urban Density Changes
(Taylor and Francis, 2018)
Nowadays, satellite images are a great source of exhaustive, accurate, periodic, and easily updated information on urban areas, and one of the most significant research topics in geographical information technologies is ...
La Remodelación San Borja en Santiago de Chile: de promesa revolucionaria a reactivador inmobiliario
(Univ. Nacl Colombia, 2018)
The process of urban transformation and recovery of central areas was one of the priorities of the Chilean governments in the 1960s and 1970s. In this context, special attention was given to the housing complexes that ...
Integrated mechanistic and data-driven modeling for risk assessment of greenhouse gas production in an urbanized river system
(2021)
Surrounded by intense anthropogenic activities, urban polluted rivers have increasingly been reported as a significant source of greenhouse gases (GHGs). However, unlike pollution and climate change, no integrated urban ...
Spatial modeling of an urban Brazilian heat island in a tropical continental climate
(2019-06-01)
Because climate aspects should be an important consideration when structuring urban spaces, this paper reports the results of combined field measurements and surface sensing data analyzed using statistical calculations. ...
Assessment of sustainability in urban planning of a coastal city: The city of Coronel, southern Chile
(WIT Press, 2009)
Population increases in the coastal area in the Bío Bío region (Chile) have transformed the urban landscape, creating the need for new urban areas for residential land use. This expansion has resulted in the use of locations ...
"Ollas" urban phenomenon : from urban decay to the revitalization of high complexity areas in the city of Bogotá. Approach to a model of urban and architectural strategies for the analysis and intervention of deteriorated territories for their reintegration into the urban life
The cities are composed by a series of complex networks of relationships that shape an urban fabric based on the social condition developing around the territory. The urbanism that rules most human establishments today, ...
A GIS-based urban and peri-urban landscape representation toolbox for hydrological distributed modeling
(Elsevier, 2017)
Flowpaths are significantly affected by land use change and engineered elements across urban catchments.
Conventional GIS-based tools for extracting drainage networks were not developed for urban
terrains. This work ...