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Xuejun Qi, Xing Zhao, Bin Fu, Lanjing Xu, Haibin Yu and Shuyan Tao
The urban heat island phenomenon in large cities is becoming increasingly serious as urbanization continues to develop, seriously affecting the lives of urban residents. Rivers can effectively alleviate urban heat islands and improve the thermal comfort ...
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Rubab Saher, Haroon Stephen and Sajjad Ahmad
The estimation of urban irrigation water requirements has often been approached from an agricultural perspective. This approach is flawed, as the intention of estimating agricultural water is to optimize yield. Recent studies have reported that urban irr...
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Cédric Mpié Simba, Emmanuel Lemelin, Eric Masson, Ahmed Senouci and Walid Maherzi
In the absence of industry data, organisms, and researchers leverage free and available data, specifically building and demolition permits. Geospatial processing is essential to integrate information from various files into a single GIS layer containing ...
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Francesco Lodato, Nicola Colonna, Giorgio Pennazza, Salvatore Praticò, Marco Santonico, Luca Vollero and Maurizio Pollino
This study analyzes, through remote sensing techniques and innovative clouding services, the recent land use dynamics in the North-Roman littoral zone, an area where the latest development has witnessed an important reconversion of purely rural areas to ...
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Changying Xiang and Lulu Tao
Vertical greenery not only helps to cool the surfaces of buildings but, more importantly, it can also mitigate the Urban Heat Island effect. The growth of vertical greenery is highly dependent on ongoing maintenance, such as irrigation. Wind-driven rain ...
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Darius Drungilas, Mindaugas Kurmis, Arturas Tadzijevas, Zydrunas Lukosius, Deivydas Sapalas, Valdas Jankunas, Arvydas Martinkenas, Rimantas Didziokas and Jurate Gruode
This paper presents a prototype of a disinfection system for public transport specifically aiming to disinfect surfaces contaminated with the SARS-CoV-2 virus on buses using 222 nm wavelength far-ultraviolet light (far-UVC). Our study involved testing th...
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Neshat Rahmani and Ayyoob Sharifi
The Local Climate Zone (LCZ) classification system is used in this study to analyze the impacts of urban morphology on a surface urban heat island (SUHI). Our study involved a comparative analysis of SUHI effects in two Japanese cities, Sapporo and Hiros...
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Anja Svane Kolath and Sara Egemose
Urban areas with dark and impermeable surfaces are known to have a heating effect on air and still water compared to surrounding areas, called the urban heat island effect (UHI). UHI and stormwater discharges? collective impact on stream temperature, esp...
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Souleymane Fall, Kapo Coulibaly, Joseph Quansah and Gamal El Afandi
Urban heat vulnerability varies within and across cities, necessitating detailed studies to understand diverse populations? specific vulnerabilities. This research assessed urban heat vulnerability at block group level in three Alabama cities: Birmingham...
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Shuang Lu, Jianyun Huang and Jing Wu
In the contexts of global climate change and the urbanization process, urban flooding poses significant challenges worldwide, necessitating effective rapid assessments to understand its impacts on various aspects of urban systems. This can be achieved th...
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