References

All GeoClimate versions are archived on a Zenodo repository.

General presentation of the GeoClimate tool:

Bocher, Erwan and Bernard, Jérémy and Le Saux Wiederhold, Elisabeth and Leconte, François and Petit, Gwendall and Palominos, Sylvain and Noûs, Camille. “GeoClimate : a Geospatial processing toolbox for environmental and climate studies”. Journal of Open Source Software https://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.03541

For specific features in GeoClimate

Description and evaluation of the algorithm used to classify the Local Climate Zones according to Stewart and Oke (2012) referential. > Bernard, J., Bocher, E., Gousseff, M., Leconte, F., and Le Saux Wiederhold, E.: A generic algorithm to automatically classify urban fabric according to the local climate zone system: implementation in GeoClimate 0.0.1 and application to French cities, Geosci. Model Dev., 17, 2077–2116, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-2077-2024, 2024.

Description and evaluation of the method used to estimate the missing building height in OSM data. > Bernard, J., Bocher, E., Le Saux Wiederhold, E., Leconte, F., and Masson, V.: Estimation of missing building height in OpenStreetMap data: a French case study using GeoClimate 0.0.1, Geosci. Model Dev., 15, 7505–7532,https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-7505-2022, 2022.

The Sky View Factor calculation at Reference Spatial Unit (RSU):

Bernard, J., Bocher,E., Petit,G., Palominos.S. (2018). Sky View Factor Calculation in Urban Context: Computational Performance and Accuracy Analysis of Two Open and Free GIS Tools. Climate, MDPI, Urban Overheating - Progress on Mitigation Science and Engineering Applications, 6 (3), pp.60.https://www.mdpi.com/2225-1154/6/3/60

The R package used to compare various LCZ classifications :

Gousseff, M., Bocher,E., Bernard, J.,Le Saux Wiederhold, E. (2023). lczexplore : an R package to explore Local Climate Zone classifications. Journal of Open Source Software, pre-print https://github.com/openjournals/joss-papers/blob/joss.05445/joss.05445/10.21105.joss.05445.pdf

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