Phase 1: Production of Climate Analysis Maps
The results of the project are designed to be used in generating maps and digital data layers with climate information relevant to regional and urban planning. Positive and negative impacts of human activities on climate and air quality have a main influence on living comfort of the inhabitants of an urbanized region. Planners are therefore demanded to consider these impacts in their planning affairs.
Information delivered to the planners has to fulfill the following requirements:
Climate and air quality data have to be presented as spatially distributed and aggregated information. Maps with a scale of 1:50.000 up to 1:100.000 are an adequate mean for this purpose.
Climate information has to be available in both ways, as maps and as digital data sets stored in a Geographic Information System (GIS).
Time-saving and cost-effective updating of the results must be possible.
The application of active microwave, optical and thermal IR satellite data in combination with digital terrain models (DTM) corresponds to these requirements! This knowledge resulted in the development of concepts and methods enabling us to generate the above mentioned climate maps to a highly automated degree without using time-consuming and cost-intensive measurement data. Measurement data were only used for validation and to demonstrate specific climate problems of relevance to the Canton Solothurn (see link on the list below).
Please click on the boxes in the flow chart or on the corresponding items in the list below for a demonstration of the applied data sets and a brief overview of methods and some results. For results of the precursor project KABA dealing with the regions of the Cantons Basel-Stadt and Basel-Landschaft we recommend the KABA-pages.
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Digital
Elevation Model
Digital Terrain Model
ERS-2 SAR
Landsat-5 TM
Land-use classification / Pixel classes
Areal percentages
Attributed parameters
Areal types
Ventilation classes
