Geographic Information Systems for Facilitating Audits of the Urban Built Environment
Energies
; 16(11):4309, 2023.
Article
in English
| ProQuest Central | ID: covidwho-20232847
ABSTRACT
Data collection and large-scale urban audits are challenging and can be time consuming processes. Geographic information systems can extract and combine relevant data that can be used as input to calculation tools that provide results and quantify indicators with sufficient spatial analysis to facilitate the local decision-making process for building renovations and sustainability assessment. This work presents an open-access tool that offers an automated process that can be used to audit an urban area in order to extract relevant information about the characteristics of the built environment, analyze the building characteristics to evaluate energy performance, assess the potential for the installation of photovoltaics on available building rooftops, and quantify ground permeability. A case study is also presented to demonstrate data collection and processing for an urban city block, and the relevant results are elaborated upon. The method is easily replicable and is based on open data and non-commercial tools.
Energy; GIS; audits; built environment; cities; sustainability; energy performance; buildings; rooftop space; ground permeability; Spatial analysis; Urban environments; Emissions; Neutrality; Permeability; Geographic information systems; Decision making; Urban areas; Energy consumption; Data collection; Photovoltaic cells; COVID-19; Renovation; Smart cities; Decision analysis; Photovoltaics; Carbon; Pandemics; Tools; Open data; Energy efficiency; Information processing; Remote sensing; Netherlands
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Databases of international organizations
Database:
ProQuest Central
Type of study:
Experimental Studies
Language:
English
Journal:
Energies
Year:
2023
Document Type:
Article
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