Boosting the predictive accuracy of urban hedonic house price models through airborne laser scanning

Computers, Environment and Urban Systems

Volumn 39, Issue , 2013, Pages 81-92

  Helbich, Marco ^a   Jochem, Andreas ^a   Mücke, Werner ^b   Höfle, Bernhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Airborne laser scanning; Generalized additive model; GIS; Hedonic regression; LiDAR; Real estate; Solar radiation; Vienna (Austria)

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING; AUSTRIA; GENERALIZED ADDITIVE MODEL; HEDONIC REGRESSION; REAL ESTATE;

COSTS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LASER APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL RADAR; SOLAR RADIATION; SUN; TALL BUILDINGS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; URBAN PLANNING;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

AIRBORNE SENSING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GIS; HEDONIC ANALYSIS; HOUSING MARKET; LIDAR; PRICE DETERMINATION; PRICE DYNAMICS; SOLAR RADIATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; URBAN HOUSING; URBAN PLANNING;

AUSTRIA; VIENNA;

EID: 84875766009     PISSN: 01989715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2013.01.001     Document Type: Article

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