City digital twin potentials: A review and research agenda

E Shahat, CT Hyun, C Yeom - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
The city digital twin is anticipated to accurately reflect and affect the city's functions and
processes to enhance its realization, operability, and management. Although research on …

Developing human-centered urban digital twins for community infrastructure resilience: A research agenda

X Ye, J Du, Y Han, G Newman… - Journal of Planning …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Urban digital twins (UDTs) have been identified as a potential technology to achieve digital
transformative positive urban change through landscape architecture and urban planning …

Digital twin for urban planning in the green deal era: A state of the art and future perspectives

G Caprari, G Castelli, M Montuori, M Camardelli… - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
This paper provides a state of the art of contemporary Digital Twins (DTs) projects for urban
planning at an international level. The contribution investigates the evolution of the DT …

[HTML][HTML] Mapping the urban forest in detail: From LiDAR point clouds to 3D tree models

M Münzinger, N Prechtel, M Behnisch - Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 2022 - Elsevier
Trees are an integral component of the urban environment and important for human well-
being, adaption measures to climate change and sustainable urban transformation …

Extending CityGML for IFC-sourced 3D city models

F Biljecki, J Lim, J Crawford, D Moraru… - Automation in …, 2021 - Elsevier
Differences in the scope and intent of the contrasting IFC and CityGML data formats entail
that converting the former to the latter results in loss of information. However, for some use …

A geospatial platform to manage large-scale individual mobility for an urban digital twin platform

A Lee, KW Lee, KH Kim, SW Shin - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Urban digital twin (UDT) technology can be used to digitize physical urban spaces. Previous
UDT or smart city research reconstructed the three-dimensional topography of urban …

Exploring city digital twins as policy tools: A task-based approach to generating synthetic data on urban mobility

G Papyshev, M Yarime - Data & Policy, 2021 - cambridge.org
This article discusses the technology of city digital twins (CDTs) and its potential applications
in the policymaking context. The article analyzes the history of the development of the …

A prior level fusion approach for the semantic segmentation of 3D point clouds using deep learning

Z Ballouch, R Hajji, F Poux, A Kharroubi, R Billen - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Three-dimensional digital models play a pivotal role in city planning, monitoring, and
sustainable management of smart and Digital Twin Cities (DTCs). In this context, semantic …

Tree information modeling: A data exchange platform for tree design and management

Q Shu, T Rötzer, A Detter, F Ludwig - Forests, 2022 - mdpi.com
Trees integrated into buildings and dense urban settings have become a trend in recent
years worldwide. Without a thoughtful design, conflicts between green and gray …

Geo-spatial context provision for digital twin generation

TE Jost, C Stary, R Heininger - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Light detection and ranging technology allows for the creation of detailed 3D point clouds of
physical objects and environments. Therefore, it has the potential to provide valuable …