Building
stock
management
is
becoming
a
global
societal
and
political
issue,
inter
alia
because
of
growing
sustainability
concerns.
Comprehensive
openly
accessible
building
data
can
enable
impactful
research
exploring
the
most
effective
policy
options.
In
Europe,
efforts
from
citizen
governments
generated
numerous
relevant
datasets
but
these
are
fragmented
heterogeneous,
thus
hindering
their
usability.
Here,
we
present
EUBUCCO
v0.1,
database
individual
footprints
for
~202
million
buildings
across
27
European
Union
countries
Switzerland.
Three
main
attributes
-
height,
construction
year
type
included
respectively
73%,
24%
46%
buildings.
We
identify,
collect
harmonize
50
open
government
OpenStreetMap,
perform
extensive
validation
analyses
to
assess
quality,
consistency
completeness
in
every
country.
v0.1
provides
basis
high-resolution
urban
studies
scales
continental,
comparative
or
local
using
centralized
source
variety
use
cases,
e.g.,
energy
system
analysis
natural
hazard
risk
assessments.
Land,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
14(3), С. 598 - 598
Опубликована: Март 12, 2025
As
global
climate
change
intensifies,
its
impact
on
the
ecological
environment
is
becoming
increasingly
pronounced.
Among
these,
land
surface
temperature
(LST)
and
vegetation
cover
status,
as
key
indicators,
have
garnered
widespread
attention.
This
study
analyzes
spatiotemporal
dynamics
of
LST
Kernel
Normalized
Difference
Vegetation
Index
(KNDVI)
in
11
provinces
along
Yangtze
River
their
response
to
based
MODIS
Terra
satellite
data
from
2000
2020.
The
linear
regression
showed
a
significant
KNDVI
increase
0.003/year
(p
<
0.05)
rise
0.065
°C/year
0.01).
Principal
Component
Analysis
(PCA)
explained
74.5%
variance,
highlighting
dominant
influence
urbanization.
K-means
clustering
identified
three
regional
patterns,
with
Shanghai
forming
distinct
group
due
low
variability.
Generalized
Additive
Model
(GAM)
analysis
revealed
nonlinear
LST–KNDVI
relationship,
most
evident
Hunan,
where
cooling
effects
weakened
beyond
threshold
0.25.
Despite
0.07
increase,
high-temperature
areas
Chongqing
Jiangsu
expanded
by
over
2500
km2,
indicating
limited
mitigation.
reveals
complex
interaction
between
KNDVI,
which
may
provide
scientific
basis
for
development
management
adaptation
strategies.
Nature Communications,
Год журнала:
2023,
Номер
14(1)
Опубликована: Март 16, 2023
Urban
overheating
is
an
increasing
threat
to
people,
infrastructure,
and
the
environment.
Common
heat
mitigation
strategies,
such
as
green
confront
space
limitations
in
current
car-centric
cities.
In
2020,
City
of
Phoenix,
Arizona,
piloted
a
"cool
pavement"
program
using
solar
reflective
pavement
seal
on
58
km
residential
streets.
Comprehensive
micrometeorological
observations
are
used
evaluate
cooling
potential
based
three
exposure
metrics-surface,
air,
mean
radiant
temperatures-across
pavement-treated
untreated
neighborhoods.
addition,
reflectivity
observed
over
7
months
across
eight
Results
synthesized
with
literature
provide
context-based
implementation
guidelines
mitigate
urban
where
common
strategies
cannot
be
applied.
The
most
important
contextual
factors
consider
for
effective
include
location,
background
climate
type,
metric
interest.
