Articles | Volume 15, issue 19
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-7505-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-7505-2022
Model evaluation paper
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11 Oct 2022
Model evaluation paper |  | 11 Oct 2022

Estimation of missing building height in OpenStreetMap data: a French case study using GeoClimate 0.0.1

Jérémy Bernard, Erwan Bocher, Elisabeth Le Saux Wiederhold, François Leconte, and Valéry Masson

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OpenStreetMap is a collaborative project aimed at creaing a free dataset containing topographical information. Since these data are available worldwide, they can be used as standard data for geoscience studies. However, most buildings miss the height information that constitutes key data for numerous fields (urban climate, noise propagation, air pollution). In this work, the building height is estimated using statistical modeling using indicators that characterize the building's environment.
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