Abstract: This paper investigates, first, the influence of vegetations to the air temperature distribution and, second, the correlation between air temperature and sky view factor (SVF) to understand whether the trees have adverse ...

Abstract: Buildings have time-varying interactions with the local climate condition for the heating or cooling systems; changes of the surrounding climate condition affect building energy consumption. Based on the thermal envelope ...

Abstract: Satellite positioning methods [global navigation satellite system (GNSS) positioning] are used for various applications, which is especially true in the case of the real-time kinematic (RTK) method. This method provides ...