Developing a community-based worldwide urban morphology and materials database (WUDAPT) using remote sensing and crowdsourcing for improved urban climate modelling

Author

See, Linda ; Perger, Christoph ; Duerauer, Martina ; Fritz, Steffen ; Bechtel, Benjamin ; Ching, Jason ; Alexander, Paul ; Mills, Gerald ; Foley, Micheal ; O´Connor, Martin ; Stewart, Iain ; Feddema, Johannes ; Masson, Valery

Author_Institution

Int. Inst. for Appl. Syst. Anal., Laxenburg, Austria

fYear

2015

fDate

March 30 2015-April 1 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper outlines the WUDAPT (World Urban Database and Access Portal Tools) concept and highlights progress to date in developing this database for cities around the world. The next steps in the WUDAPT project are outlined, both in the immediate and longer term. Ultimately the goal is to provide an open access resource on urban morphology, materials and metabolism for all major cities that can be used for many different applications, in particular for climate and weather modelling, and urban climate change studies.

Keywords

Web sites; atmospheric temperature; climatology; data acquisition; geophysics computing; information retrieval; meteorology; online front-ends; portals; remote sensing; thermal pollution; WUDAPT concept outline; WUDAPT project development; WUDAPT project progress; World Urban Database and Access Portal Tool; community-based urban materials database; community-based urban morphology; crowdsourcing; open access resource application; remote sensing; urban climate change studies; urban climate modelling; urban materials database development; urban materials database progress; urban materials open access resource; urban metabolism open access resource; urban morphology open access resource; urban weather modelling; wordlwide urban materials database; worldwide urban morphology; Buildings; Cities and towns; Data collection; Databases; Meteorology; Remote sensing; Urban areas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Urban Remote Sensing Event (JURSE), 2015 Joint

Conference_Location

Lausanne

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/JURSE.2015.7120501

Filename

7120501