Potential applications of thermal fisheye imagery in urban environments

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 56-59

  Chapman, Lee ^a   Thornes, John E ^a   Muller, Jan Peter ^b,c   McMuldroch, Stuart ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b Blue Sky Imaging Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fisheye lens; Local cloud fractions; Shading; Sky view factors; Solar tracks; Thermal imagery

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

SKY VIEW FACTOR ANALYSIS; THERMAL FISHEYE IMAGERY; URBAN CLIMATOLOGY;

CAMERAS;

EID: 33846613248     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2006.885890     Document Type: Article

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