Magazine Article

Determining Surface Roughness in Urban Areas Using Lidar Data

TBMG-4981

03/01/2009

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An automated procedure has been developed to derive relevant factors, which can increase the ability to produce objective, repeatable methods for determining aerodynamic surface roughness. Aerodynamic surface roughness is used for many applications, like atmospheric dispersive models and wind-damage models. For this technique, existing lidar data was used that was originally collected for terrain analysis, and demonstrated that surface roughness values can be automatically derived, and then subsequently utilized in disaster-management and homeland-security models.

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"Determining Surface Roughness in Urban Areas Using Lidar Data," Mobility Engineering, March 1, 2009.
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Mar 1, 2009
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TBMG-4981
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Magazine Article
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English