Essays about: "Urban Computing"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 19 essays containing the words Urban Computing.
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1. Predicting Pedestrian Counts per Street Segment in Urban Environments
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för data- och informationsteknikAbstract : Cities are continuously growing all over the world and the complexity of designing urban environments increases. Therefore, there is a need to build a better understanding in how our cities work today. One of the essential parts of this is understanding the pedestrian movement. READ MORE
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2. Outdoor thermal comfort in Drottninghög, Helsingborg: a study on the effects of urban densification in a warmer climate
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskapAbstract : Extreme heat can lead to a significant increase in mortality, especially for urban citizens. Densification of urban areas can dramatically affect the local climate of the city by replacing green areas with impermeable materials and changing both radiative and turbulent fluxes. READ MORE
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3. Impact of Carbon Sinks on Urban Heat Island Effects : Assessment Using Satellite Data in Water Scarce Region of the Thesis
University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för byggnadsteknik, energisystem och miljövetenskapAbstract : Urbanization modifies the thermal characteristics of the land and makes way for a succession of transformations in the urban environmental system. This phenomenon, known as Urban Heat Island (UHI), is characterized by elevated temperatures in urban areas that negatively impact on the quality of life and environment in urban areas including, increased emissions of Green House Gases (GHGs) and rising energy consumption. READ MORE
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4. Hydrological and hydrogeological consequences of rapid and large-scale urbanization
University essay from Lunds universitet/Väg- och vattenbyggnad (CI); Lunds universitet/Teknisk geologiAbstract : Urbanization is a process where rural population move to urban places for better job opportunities and facilities. This is a natural process and more or less unavoidable. But when this process takes place rapidly and at large -scale, the urban cities will undergo various changes that will impact the environment. READ MORE
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5. Feature Extraction and FeatureSelection for Object-based LandCover Classification : Optimisation of Support Vector Machines in aCloud Computing Environment
University essay from KTH/GeoinformatikAbstract : Mapping the Earth’s surface and its rapid changes with remotely sensed data is a crucial tool to un-derstand the impact of an increasingly urban world population on the environment. However, the impressive amount of freely available Copernicus data is only marginally exploited in common clas-sifications. READ MORE