Estimating Geographical PV Potential Using LiDAR Data for Buildings in Downtown San Francisco

Sustainable solar energy is of the interest for the city of San Francisco to meet their renewable energy initiative. Buildings in the downtown area are expected to have great photovoltaic (PV) potential for future solar panel installation. This study presents a comprehensive method for estimating geographical PV potential using remote sensed LiDAR data for buildings in downtown San Francisco. LiDAR derived DSMs and DTMs were able to generate high quality building footprints using the object‐oriented classification method. The GRASS built‐in solar irradiation model (r.sun) was used to simulate and compute PV yields. Monthly and yearly maps, as well as an exquisite 3D city building model, were created to visualize the variability of solar irradiation across the study area. Results showed that monthly sum of solar irradiation followed a one‐year cycle with the peak in July and troughs in January and December. The mean yearly sum of solar irradiation for the buildings in the study area was estimated to be 1675 kWh/m². A multiple regression model was used to test the significance of building height, roof area and roof complexity against PV potential. Roof complexity was found to be the dominant determinant. Uncertainties of the research are mainly from the inherent r.sun limitations, boundary problems, and the LiDAR data accuracy in terms of both building footprint extraction and 3D modeling. Future work can focus on a more automated process and segment rooftops of buildings to achieve more accurate estimation of PV potential. The outcome of this research can assist decision makers in San Francisco to visualize building PV potential, and further select ideal places to install PV systems. The methodology presented and tested in this research can also be generalized to other cities in order to meet contemporary society's need for renewable energy.     

基于多源点云的建筑物立面太阳能潜力估计

提出了一种基于多源点云的建筑物立面太阳能潜力估计方法。该方法首先融合地面激光点云和机载影像数据,然后根据融合数据的特点,设计一种基于射线法的日照时长估计算法,并简化用于建筑物立面的太阳辐射模型,从而实现建筑物立面上的太阳能潜力估计。选取2栋朝向不同、形态不同的建筑物进行试验,结果表明,该方法能有效地估计立面上的太阳能潜力,结合点云立面自动化窗户提取的结果,可将结果细化到单个窗户,用于建筑日照标准检验,窗户太阳能潜力估计等应用。     

全局局部细节感知条件随机场的高分辨率遥感影像建筑物提取

条件随机场模型由于其较强的上下文信息建模能力,被广泛应用于建筑物提取任务中。然而,面对高分辨率遥感影像丰富的地物信息,基于条件随机场的提取方法存在建筑物边界模糊的问题。本文提出了一种全局局部细节感知条件随机场框架,该框架提出全局局部一体化D-LinkNet,在有效利用多尺度建筑物信息的同时保留局部结构信息,解决了传统条件随机场一元势能丢失边界信息的问题。同时,该框架融合分割先验以缓解建筑物类内光谱差异较大的影响,利用更大尺度的上下文信息来精确提取建筑物,并引入局部类别标记代价从而保持细节信息以获取清晰的建筑物边界。实验结果表明,该框架在WHU卫星和航空数据集上的精度评价指标均优于其他对比方法,其IoU分别达89.82%和91.72%,对于复杂场景下的建筑物信息能够获得较好的提取效果。     

Semi-Automatic Modeling of Buildings from Digital Surface Models

Semi-automatic building detection and extraction is a topic of growing interest due to its potential application in such areas as cadastral information systems, cartographic revision, and GIS. One of the existing strategies for building extraction is to use a digital surface model (DSM) represented by a cloud of known points on a visible surface, and comprising features such as trees or buildings. Conventional surface modeling using stereo-matching techniques has its drawbacks, the most obvious being the effect of building height on perspective, shadows, and occlusions. The laser scanner, a recently developed technological tool, can collect accurate DSMs with high spatial frequency. This paper presents a methodology for semi-automatic modeling of buildings which combines a region-growing algorithm with line-detection methods applied over the DSM.     

Mapping solar energy potential of southern India through geospatial technology

Abstract

There is an urgent need for alternate energy resources throughout the world due to the decline in the accessibility of fossil fuels and other conventional resources. In this pursuit, solar energy offers a favourable solution and can easily be converted into energy. There are some solar radiation models which provide point and area-based computations based on the geometry of surface orientation and visible sky. The work comprises the mapping of the solar energy generation potential of southern India to balance the competing and upcoming energy demands. The current work explores and employs the geospatial technology to prepare solar energy potential map to deliver the valuable inputs to the energy sector. The research was supported with satellite-derived global solar radiation and temperature data over a span of one year. The values obtained from the spatial radiation models were processed to get the improved datasets. Suitable cartographic visualization of solar insolation parameters was presented for enhanced understanding of the spatial distribution of solar potential, PV output, air-temperature or other spatial characteristics. Twelve monthly maps, an annual map, and another map with the location of the measurement stations were created to unravel a number of unturned mystery about the understanding of solar resource diversity in a spatial context, which will support our decisions & arguments for any kind business.     

图割能量驱动的高分辨率遥感影像震害损毁建筑物检测

为充分利用高分辨率遥感影像提供的细节信息,提高震害损毁建筑物检测精度,提出了一种图割框架下融合形状、边缘、角点等多种类型特征的损毁建筑物检测方法。该方法首先利用震前建筑物线划图提取包含单个建筑物的局部影像,用于图割能量函数建模,并分别根据建筑物的位置、形状、边缘以及角点构造能量函数的各约束项。在此基础上,通过最大流/最小割算法求解能量函数最小值,依据最小割能量进行地震前后局部影像中建筑物的相似性度量。最后利用最大期望算法(expectation maximization,EM)求得最小割能量的分类阈值,并根据错分率估值执行后处理以获得最终变化检测结果。采用2011年3月11日东日本大地震前后石卷港的高分辨率遥感影像进行试验,结果表明本文提出的方法能有效检测出损毁建筑物。     

Building Information Modelling for High‐rise Land Administration

Current land administration systems mainly use 2D plans to define and secure ownership rights associated with properties in high‐rise buildings. These 2D plans may not effectively communicate and manage the spatial complexity associated with multi‐layered and stacked properties in such buildings; additionally, multiple pages of plans (representing sections of the building) are required to represent all ownership boundaries. In response, land administration organizations have been investigating a 3D digital approach to managing information about ownership rights in high‐rise building structures. In this article, Building Information Modeling (BIM) is proposed as a feasible approach for managing land and property information in high‐rise buildings. BIM provides a collaborative, digital and intelligent 3D data environment for managing building information throughout the lifecycle of buildings. However, there is currently no capacity in BIM for recording and representing information about ownership and boundaries of properties, which is core land administration information. Therefore, this article proposes an extension to the BIM standard, which is implemented in a prototype BIM model of a complex building to showcase the potential capability of using BIM for high‐rise land administration and for modeling 3D ownership rights.     

一种基于影像的古建筑点云生成方法

针对现有古建筑数字化保护点云模型生成方法存在的诸多问题,该文采用增量式运动恢复结构技术构建了一种基于影像的古建筑点云模型生成方法,可简单、快速、低成本地实现古建筑点云生成。首先使用普通相机拍摄目标古建筑影像集并平滑预处理,然后使用运动恢复结构技术构建三维稀疏点云模型,最后密集点云加密处理并纹理映射得到古建筑三维点云模型。该方法创新性地将运动恢复结构技术引入古建筑点云生成领域。实验结果表明:该方法能快速构建古建筑三维点云模型,为古建筑数字化保护点云模型建立提供了一种新思路。     

Spatially explicit urban green indicators for characterizing vegetation cover and public green space proximity: a case study on Brussels,Belgium

ABSTRACT

Cities often have a substantial green infrastructure, which provides local ecosystem services that improve the quality of life of urban residents. These services should be explicitly addressed in urban development policies, and areas with insufficient vegetation and limited access to public green spaces should be identified. This paper presents two spatially explicit urban green indicators that are derived using remote sensing imagery, freely available map data and spatial analysis tools from open source geospatial libraries and commercial software. The first indicator represents proportional green cover (public as well as private) in the vicinity of each building within a city. The second indicator quantifies the proximity of public green spaces as walking distances from buildings to actual park entrances. A dasymetric mapping approach was used to take spatial variations in population density into account. This allows representing the indicators from the perspective of citizens instead of buildings, which may be more meaningful for deriving statistics at city level or at the level of neighbourhoods or administrative zones. The potential use of these indicators in a planning context is discussed on a case study carried out for the city of Brussels, Belgium.     

决策树分类模型的住宅建筑物图斑识别

针对大范围内住宅建筑图斑自动识别较为困难的问题,该文提出基于决策树模型的分类方法,利用基础测绘中高精度的建筑数据、地理省情监测数据、POI数据、DSM、DEM、腾讯大数据等,以建筑物本身特征和建筑物不同邻域内建筑类型相关因素的空间特征作为决策变量,分别采用QUEST、CHAID、C&RT和C5.0算法构建用于住宅分类识别的决策树模型并进行优选。以济南市(不含原莱芜市)为研究区域进行了实验,结果显示4个模型均未出现过拟合现象,可以用于住宅建筑图斑识别。     

Identifying damage caused by the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake from VHR remote sensing data

Abstract

The paper discusses the potential of very high resolution (VHR) satellite imagery for post-earthquake damage assessment in comparison with the role of aerial photographs. Post-disaster optical and radar satellite data are assessed for their ability to resolve collapsed buildings, destroyed transportation infrastructure, and specific land cover changes. Optical VHR imagery has shown to be effective in quantifying building stock and for assessing damage at the building level. High-resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery requires further research to identify optimum information extraction procedures for rapid assessment of affected buildings. Based on current technical and operational capabilities increasing efforts should be devoted to the generation of spatial datasets for disaster preparedness.     

基于生成对抗网络的建筑物损毁检测EI北大核心CSCD

建筑物作为自然灾害中最受影响的承灾体之一,其损毁信息的准确提取对灾后应急救援具有十分重要的意义。本文借鉴多模态的思想,提出了一种自动检测损毁建筑物的recursive-generative adversarial networks(RS-GAN)方法,将损毁建筑物检测分为灾前建筑物识别和灾后损毁建筑物检测两个任务,且分别在两个GAN分支中完成。RS-GAN加入联合损失函数将两个GAN分支进行连接,充分利用两个任务之间的潜在互利性提升检测效果。RS-GAN利用第1条GAN分支识别建筑物灾前形状与位置,并将识别结果作为第2条GAN分支的输入进行损毁建筑物检测任务,从而使检测结果具有更清晰的轮廓。该方法为端到端模型,在不需要过多的人工干预情形下,实现了损毁建筑物的自动检测。为了验证RS-GAN模型的效果,在圣罗莎和密苏里两个数据集上进行了测试。试验结果表明,RS-GAN方法拥有更好的检测性能,在圣罗莎数据集上的总体精度和平均精度分别达到了0.90和0.86。     

Quantifying the building stock from optical high-resolution satellite imagery for assessing disaster risk

This study uses high-resolution (HR) satellite imagery to quantify the stock of buildings, referred herein as building stock. The risk assessment requires information on the natural hazards and on the element at risk, that is the building stock in this article. This study combines (1) texture-based image processing to map built-up areas, (2) statistical sampling that allows locating the building samples and (3) photo-interpretation to encoding building footprints. Statistical inference is then used to quantify the building stock per class of building size. Legaspi in the Philippines is used as a case study. The results show that texture-based computer algorithms provide accurate area estimations of the built-up, that the detail of HR imagery allows the mapping of single buildings using photo-interpretation, and that a systematic sampling approach that uses building encoding and built-up maps can be used to quantify the building stock.     

Digital Urban Morphometrics: Automatic Extraction and Assessment of Morphological Properties of Buildings

The aim of this article is to present a method to calculate the morphological properties of the built environment using LiDAR (light detection and ranging) data, geographic information systems (GIS) data and three‐dimensional (3D) models of cities as a source of information. A hybrid approach that takes into account different types of inputs and consequently evaluates the accuracy of each type of used data is presented. This work is intended to give a first response to the lack of a comprehensive and accurate procedure that uses LiDAR data in order to automatically derive precise morphological properties, such as volumes and surfaces (façades and roofs) of buildings. The method was tested on two case‐study areas in the Geneva region with different characteristics, one in the old town along the Rhone River and the other on the CERN campus. A statistical analysis that compares the results of the computation with the 3D model of the built environment was used to validate the results, complemented by significance statistical tests. Outcomes showed that the proposed method to derive morphological properties can reach high levels of accuracy, thus enhancing the potential uses of LiDAR data for numerous applications, typically for the assessment of the urban environmental quality (UEQ) at the city and district scale, such as the estimation of the potential deployment of renewable energies in the built environment and the determination and monitoring of several urban indicators.     

基于BDS PPP技术的超高层建筑变形监测

超高层建筑变形监测是后续超高层建筑维护与修缮的重要内容．目前我国北斗卫星导航系统（BDS）已被广泛应用于建筑物的变形监测,本文利用BDS精密单点定位技术(PPP),根据高频超高层建筑BDS变形监测数据,以静态网解算三维坐标为基准,分析超高层建筑复杂环境下BDS数据质量、PPP定位精度以及超高层变形趋势．研究结果表明,在监测时间段内,BDS卫星数多于GPS,空间几何分布精度略低于GPS,观测时间达1 h以上开始收敛,水平向定位精度可以达到1 cm,竖直向定位精度可以达到2 cm,能满足超高层建筑变形监测的精度要求,可为今后的超高层建筑变形监测提供一种新的技术手段．      

A Gestalt rules and graph-cut-based simplification framework for urban building models

To visualize large urban models efficiently, this paper presents a framework for generalizing urban building footprints and facade textures by using multiple Gestalt rules and a graph-cut-based energy function. First, an urban scene is divided into different blocks by main road networks. In each block, the building footprints are partitioned into potential Gestalt groups. A footprint may satisfy several Gestalt principles. We employ the graph-cut-based optimization function to obtain a consistent segmentation of the buildings into optimal Gestalt groups with minimal energy. The building footprints in each Gestalt group are aggregated into different levels of detail (LODs). Building facade textures are also abstracted and simplified into multiple LODs using the same approach as the building footprint simplification. An effective data structure termed SceneTree is introduced to manage these aggregated building footprints and facade textures. Combined with the parallelization scheme, the rendering efficiency of large-scale urban buildings is improved. Compared with other methods, our presented method can efficiently visualize large urban models and maintain the city's image.     

True orthoimage generation by mutual recovery of occlusion areas

Demand for orthoimages is increasing as a crucial component of geographic information systems (GISs). Orthoimages are geometrically equivalent to planimetric maps, which show true geographic locations of terrain features. To produce orthoimages, geometric distortions from camera tilt and relief displacement from perspective images must be corrected. Traditionally, removing such distortions has been accomplished by differential rectification in a pixel-by-pixel fashion. However, this method cannot produce true orthoimages because of the double-mapping problem. We propose a method of generating patch-based true orthoimages for surface patches in buildings. The proposed method utilizes three-dimensional (3D) building model data. Patches from the data were projected onto aerial images to extract image patches and analysis of the superstructures was performed. Because orthoimages are generated for each building, the orthoimage quality is enhanced when using building data with a high level of detail. Instead of performing the complex visibility analysis of existing approaches, this article identifies occlusion areas based on unit surfaces of buildings and presents mutual recovery of occlusions using multiple images. To evaluate the feasibility of the method, experiments were performed with real datasets: (1) a building with a dome superstructure, (2) high-rise buildings close to each other, and (3) buildings with various shapes.     

Statistical distribution of building lot frontage: application for Tokyo downtown districts

The frontage of a building lot is the determinant factor of the residential environment. The statistical distribution of building lot frontages shows how the perimeters of urban blocks are shared by building lots for a given density of buildings and roads. For practitioners in urban planning, this is indispensable to identify potential districts which comprise a high percentage of building lots with narrow frontage after subdivision and to reconsider the appropriate criteria for the density of buildings and roads as residential environment indices. In the literature, however, the statistical distribution of building lot frontages and the density of buildings and roads has not been fully researched. In this paper, based on the empirical study in the downtown districts of Tokyo, it is found that (1) a log-normal distribution fits the observed distribution of building lot frontages better than a gamma distribution, which is the model of the size distribution of Poisson Voronoi cells on closed curves; (2) the statistical distribution of building lot frontages statistically follows a log-normal distribution, whose parameters are the gross building density, road density, average road width, the coefficient of variation of building lot frontage, and the ratio of the number of building lot frontages to the number of buildings; and (3) the values of the coefficient of variation of building lot frontages, and that of the ratio of the number of building lot frontages to that of buildings are approximately equal to 0.60 and 1.19, respectively.     

利用三维激光点云重构建筑物模型

随着三维激光点云数据获取能力的提升,基于三维激光点云进行建筑物模型重建与立面测绘成为工程应用中常用的方法。三维激光点云数据能够体现建筑物丰富和直观的细节信息,然而海量数据处理给建筑物模型构建带来了极大挑战。本文通过对建筑物的三维激光点云数据进行横切得到建筑物轮廓点,并采用基于遗传算法的TSP算法对轮廓点进行处理以获取建筑物各立面的方程系数,最终实现建筑物模型的构建和获取详细的建筑物立面数据。试验结果表明,此方法可以较好地实现LOD1级建筑物模型的构建,进而为更高(LOD3)级别的建筑物模型构建提供依据。     

标记点过程用于点云建筑物提取

目的 提出了利用标记点过程从机载激光扫描数据中直接提取建筑物的方法。该方法首先根据建筑物在点云中的几何特征建立Gibbs能量模型,通过目标的一致性建立模型的数据项,通过目标的拓扑性质等空间特性建立模型的先验项;然后,利用可逆跳转马尔科夫蒙特卡洛算法(RJMCMC)和模拟退火算法优化求解;最后,利用精细处理移除错误提取的地面点、噪声点和树木点,合并相邻的目标,实现建筑物目标的精确提取。利用3组ISPRS机载激光扫描点云进行实验,结果表明,该方法能够准确、有效地提取建筑物,具有较强的稳健性。