Modeling Building Heights in Urban Areas
Abstract
Modeling Building Heights in Urban Areas
Incoming article date: 27.01.2022The paper provides an overview of research in the field of modeling the heights of urban areas. The diversification of building heights leads to an uneven distribution of urban climate parameters. Building height maps can help improve urban management. The reviewed papers outline methods for urban scale modeling based on image recognition. Urban geometric models are built for the cities of the United Arab Emirates, China, Germany, and Japan. The research shows that both radar and optical models can be used to predict building height, but a synergistic combination of both data sources produces the best results. However, there is currently no globally agreed spatially detailed survey of the distribution and concentration of the building stock. Understanding of vertical urbanization should complement the horizontal urbanization and help sustainable land use and urban planning.
Keywords: high-rise buildings, urbanization, urban scale modeling, urban morphology, urban microclimate, Google Earth, air flow, thermal environment, wind environment, calculation of building heights