Automatic sky view factor estimation from street view photographs - A big data approach

Remote Sensing

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2017, Pages

  Liang, Jianming ^a,b,c   Gong, Jianhua ^a,c   Sun, Jun ^a,c   Zhou, Jieping ^a,c   Li, Wenhang ^a,c   Li, Yi ^a,c   Liu, Jin ^a,d,e   Shen, Shen ^a,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Zhejiang CAS Application Center for Geoinformatics   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^e National Marine Data and Information Service   (China)

Author keywords

Automatic extraction; Google Street View; Panorama; Sky view factor; Urban climate; Urban planning

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL RADAR; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; PHOTOGRAPHY; URBAN PLANNING;

AUTOMATIC EXTRACTION; GOOGLE STREET VIEW; PANORAMA; SKY VIEW FACTOR; URBAN CLIMATES;

BIG DATA;

EID: 85019964303     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs9050411     Document Type: Article

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