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Sensitivity of spatial indicators for urban terrain characterization

TitreSensitivity of spatial indicators for urban terrain characterization
Type de publicationConference Paper
Nouvelles publications2008
AuteursLong, Nathalie, Erwan Bocher, Thomas Leduc, and Guillaume Moreau
Année de publication2008
Mots clésindicators, urban fabric characterization, UrbSAT sensitivity
Résumé

To develop and manage urban territories and to analyze urbanisation impact on environment, an accurate knowledge of the city and its urban fabric is necessary. A physical description like building morphology or land cover/use allows some characterization of the urban terrain. A specific package for a GIS software is developed for urban analysis: UrbSAT (Urban Spatial Analysis Tool). It allows extracting knowledge from various data sources and gives some indicators to real applications (sustainable development, management policy, air quality improvement, etc). It raises issues such as database accuracy and quality, cell shape, size and orientation for the construction of spatial indicators. We present some tests to address those issues.

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