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This repository hosts the beta implementation of the Urban Online ES Workflow. The project is intended to give urban planners the ability to create and assess scenarios using InVEST Urban models.
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Urban Cooling: incorporate building footprint data for valuation #126

Closed davemfish closed 8 months ago

davemfish commented 10 months ago

Without building footprint data, the current valuation method has a lot of uncertainty around energy costs/savings associated with building heating & cooling because it relates the presence of buildings on a pixel to the LULC type of that pixel. This might be okay for types like "Dense Urban" or "Natural Park", but for types like "Commercial, Industrial, or Transportation" and many others, there could be a wide variety of building densities occurring on land of those types.

Also, right now we don't yet have energy cost parameters that vary by LULC code. We have one-size-fits-all energy parameters. If we don't want to incorporate building footprint data, should we at least parameterize the energy costs table for different LULC types? Or associate LULC to a "building type" label?

davemfish commented 10 months ago

Chris has the building footprint data on hand, so will share with us. And he will add building_type to the lucode parameter table.

davemfish commented 10 months ago

Footprint data is available here: https://github.com/microsoft/GlobalMLBuildingFootprints

So I can work on integrating that. And Chris will work on the parameters.

davemfish commented 8 months ago

I have the building footprint data now and a script that extracted it.

I'm closing this in favor of #89, which can include the work to incorporate the building data.