Estimation of the Roughness Length (Z o) in Malaysia using satellite image

7th Asia-Pacific Conference on Wind Engineering, APCWE-VII

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Ramli, Noram I ^a   Ali, M Idris ^a   Saad, M Syamsyul H ^a   Majid, T A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA PAHANG   (Malaysia)

^b SCHOOL OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Ndvi; Roughness length; Satelite image; Wind load

Indexed keywords

BUILDING STRUCTURE; DESIGN WIND LOADS; LAND COVER; LANDSAT SATELLITE IMAGES; MALAYSIA; NDVI; QUALITATIVE INFORMATION; QUANTITATIVE INFORMATION; ROUGHNESS LENGTH; SATELITE IMAGE; SATELLITE IMAGES; SEMI-EMPIRICAL APPROACH; SPATIALLY DISTRIBUTION; WIND LOAD; WIND SPEED PROFILES;

AERODYNAMIC LOADS; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; WIND STRESS;

LOADS (FORCES);

EID: 84856870674     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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