Development, data processing and preliminary results of an urban human comfort monitoring and information system

Idojaras

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 337-354

  Unger, János ^a   Gál, Tamás ^a   Csépe, Zoltán ^a   Lelovics, Enikő ^a   Gulyás, Ágnes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Hungary; Local climate zones (LCZ); Monitoring network; Multilayer perceptron; Psychologically equivalent temperature (PET); Real time visualization; Representative measurement sites; Szeged; Thermal and human comfort maps

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; DATA PROCESSING; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; INFORMATION SYSTEM; INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT; MONITORING SYSTEM; NEIGHBORHOOD; REAL TIME; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; VISUALIZATION;

FEJER; HUNGARY; SZEGED;

EID: 84941361956     PISSN: 03246329     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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