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UCPgenerator: urban canopy parameters from 3D building data

Tools & geometry

Python program to derive urban canopy parameters from 3D building and land-use datasets.

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Zenodo DOI 10.5281/zenodo.3352214
Licence
Open (other) Open licence; see the repository for the exact terms.
Size
18 kB

How to cite

Mussetti, G. (2019). UCPgenerator v1.1 [Computer software]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3352214

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Details

Resource
Software & tools
Geometry
City scale
Topic
Parameterisation
Year
2019
Creators
Gianluca Mussetti

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