Modeling, Monitoring, and Visualizing Carbon Footprints at the Urban Neighborhood Scale

Journal of Urban Technology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 81-96

  Petsch, Sebastian ^b   Guhathakurta, Subhrajit ^b   Heischbourg, Luc ^a   Müller, Kerstin ^a   Hagen, Hans ^a  

^a Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON EMISSION; DATA SET; GREENHOUSE GAS; MONITORING SYSTEM; NEIGHBORHOOD; SPATIAL DATA; THEMATIC MAPPING; URBAN REGION; VISUALIZATION;

ARIZONA; MARICOPA COUNTY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84857097192     PISSN: 10630732     EISSN: 14661853     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10630732.2011.648436     Document Type: Article

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