Using urban canyon geometries obtained from Google Street View for atmospheric studies: Potential applications in the calculation of street level total shortwave irradiances

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 86, Issue , 2015, Pages 340-348

  Carrasco Hernandez, Roberto ^a   Smedley, Andrew R D ^a   Webb, Ann R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Canyon fisheye images; Google Street View; Street canyon irradiances

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING; GEOMETRY; IMAGE PROCESSING;

ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE; ATMOSPHERIC STUDIES; BUILDING GEOMETRY; FISHEYE IMAGES; GLOBAL IRRADIANCE; GOOGLE STREET VIEW; POTENTIAL UTILITY; STREET CANYON;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 84909594527     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2014.10.001     Document Type: Article

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