The article begins with a discussion of the rationale for studying the relationship between residential environments and cardiovascular health. Existing empirical research relating residential environments to cardiovascular outcomes and risk factors is summarized. The research areas discussed include neighborhood socioeconomic characteristics and cardiovascular disease, the effects of residenti...

The neighbourhood aspect of city models is often overlooked in methods of generating detailed city models. This paper identifies two distinct styles of virtual city generation and highlights the weaknesses and strengths of both, before proposing a geo-demographically based solution to automatically generate 3D residential neighbourhood models suitable for use within simulative training. The alg...

Extracting individual buildings and determining their footprints have been extensively studied towards 3D Building reconstruction. Though most previous works show promising results, it is yet a nontrivial task, especially in dense residential areas. This paper discusses a methodology for resolving this issue. The proposed approach starts with separating ground and nonground LiDAR points. In the...

Residential land-use expansion, an important component of urban sprawl, has a variety of drivers and environmental implications. The goal of this article is to address the timing, location, and mechanisms of different types of residential development. Using 10 land-parcel data and aerial imagery taken between 1950 and 2000 for eight townships in southeastern Michigan, we sampled and classified ...

BACKGROUND: Public health applications using geographic information system (GIS) technology are steadily increasing. Many of these rely on the ability to locate where people live with respect to areas of exposure from environmental contaminants. Automated geocoding is a method used to assign geographic coordinates to an individual based on their street address. This method often relies on stree...

Noise pollution has not become a priority in environmental issues, but the potential negative impact on society based studies can be form of physical and psychological disturbances, main cause noise urban area is transportation. Identification sources needs should done to ensure that sound produced accordance with characteristics. The Jagorawi toll road 3rd density Jabodetabek area, compared se...

The rapid development of cellular communication systems all over the world has caused the appearance of many hundreds of mobile telephone base stations in every city. Installation of base station antennas has produced concerns about health and in some cases has resulted in litigation in court. Independent researches and measurements on electromagnetic fields in areas close to base stations was ...