View-based greenery: A three-dimensional assessment of city buildings' green visibility using Floor Green View Index

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 152, Issue , 2016, Pages 13-26

  Yu, Siyi ^a,b   Yu, Bailang ^a,b   Song, Wei ^c   Wu, Bin ^a,b   Zhou, Jianhua ^a,b   Huang, Yan ^a,b   Wu, Jianping ^a,b   Zhao, Feng ^d   Mao, Weiqing ^d  

^a East China Normal University   (China)

^b EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^d Shanghai Surveying and Mapping Institute   (China)

Author keywords

Floor Green View Index; LiDAR; Urban vegetation; Visibility of green spaces; Visual amenity

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; FLOORS; OPTICAL RADAR; URBAN PLANNING; VEGETATION; VISIBILITY;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS; ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS; GREEN SPACES; LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; URBAN GREEN SPACES; URBAN VEGETATION; VISUAL AMENITY;

GREEN COMPUTING;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; ASSESSMENT METHOD; BUILDING; DETECTION METHOD; FLOOR; GREENSPACE; LIDAR; MEASUREMENT METHOD; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; URBAN PLANNING; VISIBILITY;

CHINA; SHANGHAI;

EID: 84966263508     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2016.04.004     Document Type: Article

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