Between Gaming and Microclimate Simulations: Temperature Estimation of an Urban Area

Eva Strauss, Dimitri Bulatov

2024

Abstract

With the rising awareness and interest from researchers, local authorities, and industry in the urban heat island effect, thermal remote sensing data is needed as it allows for identification, tracking, or analysis of land surface temperatures. Yet, the accessibility of appropriate thermal data in both the spatial and temporal domain states an inhibiting factor. Whilst thermal satellite data suffers from both low spatial and temporal resolution, airborne imagery might enable adequate resolutions, however, is not acquired without time and cost consumption. One way to overcome this drawback is the generation of synthetic data, which comprises the simulation of surface temperatures. These rather simplified simulations are either quite fast, as desired in gaming applications, however, highly inaccurate, or rather complex, holistic, time-consuming and computationally intensive, like applied in urban microclimate considerations. In this paper, we present an in-between approach towards the estimation of urban surface temperatures that aims to fill this gap between holistic microclimate simulations and climate maps.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Strauss E. and Bulatov D. (2024). Between Gaming and Microclimate Simulations: Temperature Estimation of an Urban Area. In Proceedings of the 19th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP; ISBN 978-989-758-679-8, SciTePress, pages 70-80. DOI: 10.5220/0012385800003660

in Bibtex Style

@conference{grapp24,
author={Eva Strauss and Dimitri Bulatov},
title={Between Gaming and Microclimate Simulations: Temperature Estimation of an Urban Area},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 19th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP},
year={2024},
pages={70-80},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012385800003660},
isbn={978-989-758-679-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 19th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP
TI - Between Gaming and Microclimate Simulations: Temperature Estimation of an Urban Area
SN - 978-989-758-679-8
AU - Strauss E.
AU - Bulatov D.
PY - 2024
SP - 70
EP - 80
DO - 10.5220/0012385800003660
PB - SciTePress