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Multi-scale Remote Sensed Thermal Mapping of Urban Environments: Approaches and Issues

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R3 in Geomatics: Research, Results and Review (R3GEO 2019)

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Among the applications of Remote Sensing for urban environments, Thermal Mapping is currently one of the most interesting, although still quite limited in usage. Airborne, drone and satellite thermal imagery can in fact provide effective data for different purposes and at different scales. The peculiar characteristics of thermal images, on the other hand, make their use not really straightforward or immediate, and its insertion in an urban GIS must be carefully managed. The paper presents some approaches and solutions adopted for both the mapping of urban heat island at the scale of a whole city and a more detailed study of energy losses from building blocks. These includes geometric and radiometric calibration aspects and the integration of different sources of geomatic and remote sensing data.

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Part of the work was performed in the framework of Central Europe project 2CE126P3 “EnergyCity - Reducing energy consumption and CO2 emissions in cities across Central Europe” (PI T. Csoknyai).

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    Gabriele Bitelli, Emanuele Mandanici & Valentina Alena Girelli

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Bitelli, G., Mandanici, E., Girelli, V.A. (2020). Multi-scale Remote Sensed Thermal Mapping of Urban Environments: Approaches and Issues. In: Parente, C., Troisi, S., Vettore, A. (eds) R3 in Geomatics: Research, Results and Review. R3GEO 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1246. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62800-0_29

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