Urban green roofs are discussed as a local climate adaptation measure to limit surface warming and increase evaporative cooling by vegetation in urban environments. A five month measurement campaign was conducted to observe surface and air temperatures as well as dewfall dynamics and amounts on an urban green and co-located bitumen roof. Measurements were performed in the period from August to ...

Building reconstruction is one of the most difficult and important 3D modelling problems for urban environment. In this paper, we develop an approach using minimum number of basic geometric elements to reconstruct the buildings. The basic element is a number of unstructured 3D points representing the topological identity of a building roof. Such point primitives can be measured by human or comp...

This paper presents a model-based approach for 3-D building reconstruction unstructured distinct points. The data structure of a building is an unstructured roof point cloud digitized by operators. Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) model is applied in our approach for a complex roof which can be decomposed into three types of primitive models. The primitive model is represented as a tree. The l...

This paper compares the paradigms of LiDAR and aerophotogrammetry in the context of building extraction and briefly discusses a photogrammetric strategy for refining building roof polyhedrons previously extracted from LiDAR data. In general, empirical and theoretical studies have confirmed that LiDAR methodologies are more suitable in extracting planar roof faces and ridges of the roof, whereas...

This paper presents a data-driven method for automatic building reconstruction from raw airborne laser scanner data. The method utilises a TIN-structure that is calculated into the point cloud. The parameters of every TIN-mesh are mapped into a 3D trianglemesh parameter space, which is then analysed using a cluster analysis technique. By analysing the clusters, significant roof planes are deriv...

INTRODUCTION The medial maxillary sinus roof is a ridge formed by the superior margin of the maxillary sinus antrostomy. The posterior wall of the maxillary sinus is always included in operative fields. OBJECTIVE To perform a radiologic study assessing the utility of the medial maxillary sinus roof and the posterior wall of the maxillary sinus as fixed landmarks for providing a safe route of ...

This study aims at the robust automatic detection of buildings with a gable roof in varying rural areas from very-high-resolution aerial images. The originality of our approach resides in a custom-made design extracting key features close to modeling, such as e.g. roof ridges and gutters. In this way, we allow a large freedom in roof appearances. The proposed method is based on a combination of...

Solid backfill coal mining technology has been widely applied in coal seams that are at risk of hard roof. Using actual measured strain–stress curves of the backfill body and the similarity theory, this study designed and employed four experimental models for physical simulation, corresponding to roof-controlled backfilling ratios of 0%, 40%, 82.5% and 97% using the geological conditions of Fac...

Mines with exceptionally low-strength roof (UCS <3,500 psi and CMRR <40) are much more likely to struggle with roof falls than other mines. Weak roof is a particular problem for many room and pillar mines in the Midwestern and Northern Appalachian coal basins. Traditional roof support techniques are often not up to the challenge at these operations. This paper focuses on two mines, one operatin...

In an attempt to understand the relationship between quasi-static and dynamic test results, repeatable, dynamic rollover tests were conducted on production vehicles to determine intrusion and intrusion velocities using the Jordan Rollover System (JRS). These tests included complete production vehicles and body bucks at reduced weight, to vary the roof strength-to-weight ratio. Data from these t...