• People involved
• Introduction
• Installation
• Processing steps

Data

• Input data
  • Zone layer
  • Building layer
  • Road Layer
  • Railway Layer
  • Vegetation Layer
  • Water Layer
  • Impervious Layer
  • Urban Areas Layer
  • Sea Land Areas Layer
• Output data
  • Building Indicators
  • Block Indicators
  • RSU indicators
  • LCZ Classification
  • UTRF classification
  • Road Indicators
  • Ground Acoustic
  • Grid indicators
  • Sprawl areas
  • Building, block and reference spatial units Indicators
  • Classifications
  • Noise-related indicators
  • Grid indicators

Show

• Display Output with QGIS
• View Data with DBeaver

Linux

• Default case with OSM
• Default case with BDTopo
• Bounding box case
• Create WRF inputs from LCZ
• Create WRF inputs

Windows

• Default case with OSM
• Default case with BDTopo
• Bounding box case
• Create WRF inputs from LCZ
• Create WRF inputs

Other

• Frequently asked questions
• Gallery
• Download
• Integrate Geoclimate in your lib
• Coding implementation
• References

Welcome to the GeoClimate documentation!

GeoClimate is an open‑source geospatial toolbox to compute a set of climate‑related parameters describing a territory (morphological indicators such as Sky View Factor, urban classifications such as Local Climate Zones, etc.).

GeoClimate uses vector‑based inputs. Specific workflows have been developed to automatically use OpenStreetMap and the French BD Topo 2.2 and 3.0 versions databases, but the algorithms are data‑independent, thus allowing the user to connect any vector‑based dataset.

GeoClimate is developed in the Groovy language.

Note :

The documentation is inline with the current GeoClimate code source.

If you are using a released version of GeoClimate please read the documentation packaged with the version you are using.

Open‑source philosophy

It can be freely used either for research and education, as well as by experts in a professional use.

GeoClimate is distributed under the LGPL 3 license by the DECIDE GIS team of the Lab‑STICC (CNRS).

You are welcome: * to contribute to GeoClimate please visit the code source repository: https://github.com/orbisgis/geoclimate * to contact members of the team, use the email info@orbisgis.org or report an issue: https://github.com/orbisgis/geoclimate/issues

Contributing

For legal reasons, contributors are asked to provide a contributor license agreement (CLA).

The message needs to include the following statement:

“I wrote the code, it’s mine, and I’m contributing it to GeoClimate for distribution licensed under the LGPL 3.0.”

If you want to contribute, send a PR on GitHub and refer the CLA in your message.

Fundings

The GeoClimate library has been originally developed within the following research projects:

• URCLIM (2017–2021), part of ERA4CS, a project initiated by JPI Climate and co‑funded by the European Union under grant agreement No 690462

• PAENDORA (2017–2021), funded by ADEME

• PAENDORA2 (Pour la gestion du confort estival : Données, Outils et Recherche‑Action) (2022–2025), funded by ADEME

• CENSE (2017–2021), funded by ANR

• Chaire GeoTERA (2020), funded by SNCF Réseau on behalf of the foundation Université Bretagne Sud

• DEODE (2022–2024), funded by the ECMWF

GeoClimate is also supported by GEOMANUM FOUNDATION (2022–2024).

Note

The official documentation is available in English only.

If you observe some mistakes or errors, please contact us at info@orbisgis.org or report an issue on GitHub.

You are welcome to contribute, improve the documentation.

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