Global Streetscapes—A comprehensive dataset of 10 million street-level images across 688 cities for urban science and analytics

Y Hou, M Quintana, M Khomiakov, W Yap… - ISPRS Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Street view imagery (SVI) is instrumental for sensing urban environments, benefitting
numerous domains such as urban morphology, health, greenery, and accessibility. Billions …

Drivers of land surface temperatures from the perspective of urban functional zones

Y Bai, L Liu, J Yang, J Wang… - IEEE Journal of Selected …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Urban areas have a high level of spatial heterogeneity. Therefore, examining the degree of
drivers in urban functional zones (UFZs) is important. In this study, point of interest (POI) data …

Coupling effects of building-vegetation-land on seasonal land surface temperature on street-level: A study from a campus in Beijing

S Zhang, C Yuan, B Ma, N Liu, W Li - Building and Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
The land surface temperature (LST) of urban streets is significantly influenced by the
surrounding urban environment. In the cold areas of northern China, this influence exhibits a …

A sleep staging model based on core body temperature rhythm

X Xu, Z Lian - Energy and Buildings, 2024 - Elsevier
Core body temperature (CBT) rhythm and sleep process are closely intertwined, yet there is
a lack of quantitative methods to link them. To accomplish the research link of “sleeping …

Virtual wall: Numerical model on interaction between trees and building façade to quantify heat exchange and microclimate in urban context

L Deng, J Wu, Y Guo, W Wang, F Jiang, X Li - Urban Climate, 2024 - Elsevier
When simulating a building's energy demand, the tree surroundings should be accounted in
their shade and reshaping microclimate, just representing an envelope layer as a virtual …