Urban Climate Map System for Dutch spatial planning

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 207-221

  Ren, Chao ^a   Spit, Tejo ^b   Lenzholzer, Sanda ^c   Yim, Hung Lam Steve ^d   van Hove, Bert Heusinkveld ^c   Chen, Liang ^a   Kupski, Sebastian ^e   Burghardt, René ^e   Katzschner, Lutz ^e  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Compact city; Geographic Information System (GIS); Platform; Thermal and wind environment; Urban climatic map system (UCMS); Urban planning

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; GIS; GLOBAL WARMING; POLICY MAKING; SPATIAL PLANNING; URBAN AREA; URBAN CLIMATE; URBAN PLANNING;

ARNHEM; GELDERLAND; NETHERLANDS;

EID: 84864505253     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2012.01.026     Document Type: Article

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