Mapping local climate zones for a worldwide database of the form and function of cities

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 199-219

  Bechtel, Benjamin ^a   Alexander, Paul J ^b   Böhner, Jörgen ^a   Ching, Jason ^c   Conrad, Olaf ^a   Feddema, Johannes ^d   Mills, Gerald ^e   See, Linda ^f   Stewart, Iain ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^f INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Land cover; Local climate zones; Multi Temporalremote sensing; Pixel based classification; Supervised classification; Urban climate science; WUDAPT

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926352993     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22209964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijgi4010199     Document Type: Article

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