City-Scale Urban Modeling at Stevens IT

Prof. Laefer was invited to speak on city-scale urban modeling at the picturesque Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ. Her talk, presented on May 10th, 2017, shared recent progress and potential in the use of remote sensing for massive urban modeling, including the use of hyperspectral data to conduct material analysis.

Abstract

Despite tremendous advances in virtual reality and gaming environments, little of this has translated into city-scale models with engineering functionality, despite the pressing need for such models in a wide range of subjects (e.g. energy usage, urban heat island, pollution dispersion, pedestrian wind comfort, and blast vulnerability). As such, Prof. Laefer presented the current state of the art with respect to the creation of an automated pipeline for computational model creation that is representative of the actual built environment. Of particular interest is how the latest generation of laser scanning combined with hyperspectral imagery may prove to be a game changer in the auto-generation of computational models at a city-scale.

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