The local climate zone (LCZ) system provides a universal classification mechanism for
urban and natural landscapes and plays an increasingly important role in urban climate …

In the remote sensing community, extracting buildings from remote sensing imagery has
triggered great interest. While many studies have been conducted, a comprehensive review …

Accurate building heights are essential to understand the mechanisms of urban systems and
provide new insights into research on infrastructure equality, urban environment, population …

Building-integrated photovoltaics are increasingly used to build low-carbon buildings and
promote energy transition. However, the absence of three-dimensional (3D) building models …

Extracting building heights from single-view remote sensing images greatly enhances the
application of remote sensing data. While methods for extracting building height from single …

Building heights are one of the crucial data for comprehending the functions of urban
systems. Employing optical remote sensing imagery, the shadow-based method is one of …

Building height serves as an essential feature of urban morphology that provides valuable
insights into human socio-cultural behaviors and their impact on the environment in an …

Building characteristics, such as number of storeys and type, play a key role across many
domains: interpreting urban form, simulating urban microclimate or modelling building …

Recently, it was shown that a detailed reconstruction of urban height maps is possible from
single very high resolution (VHR) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images with deep …

As cities continue to grow globally, characterizing the built environment is essential to
understanding human populations, projecting energy usage, monitoring urban heat island …