Urban texture analysis with image processing techniques: Winds and dispersion

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 84, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 77-90

  Ratti, Carlo ^a   Di Sabatino, Silvana ^b   Britter, Rex ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; DISPERSION; IMAGE PROCESSING; STREET CANYON; URBAN CLIMATE; WIND;

EID: 84984541536     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-005-0146-z     Document Type: Review

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