References

All GeoClimate versions are archived on a Zenodo repository.

General presentation of the GeoClimate tool:

Bocher, Erwan and Bernard, Jérémy and Le Saux Wiederhold, Elisabeth and Leconte, François and Petit, Gwendall and Palominos, Sylvain and Noûs, Camille. "GeoClimate : a Geospatial processing toolbox for environmental and climate studies". Journal of Open Source Software https://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.03541

For specific features in GeoClimate

Description and evaluation of the algorithm used to classify the Local Climate Zones according to Stewart and Oke (2012) referential.

Bernard, J., Bocher, E., Gousseff, M., Leconte, F., and Le Saux Wiederhold, E.: A generic algorithm to automatically classify urban fabric according to the local climate zone system: implementation in GeoClimate 0.0.1 and application to French cities, Geosci. Model Dev., 17, 2077–2116, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-2077-2024, 2024.

Description and evaluation of the method used to estimate the missing building height in OSM data.

Bernard, J., Bocher, E., Le Saux Wiederhold, E., Leconte, F., and Masson, V.: Estimation of missing building height in OpenStreetMap data: a French case study using GeoClimate 0.0.1, Geosci. Model Dev., 15, 7505–7532, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-7505-2022, 2022.

The Sky View Factor calculation at Reference Spatial Unit (RSU):

Bernard, J., Bocher,E., Petit,G., Palominos.S. (2018). Sky View Factor Calculation in Urban Context: Computational Performance and Accuracy Analysis of Two Open and Free GIS Tools. Climate, MDPI, Urban Overheating - Progress on Mitigation Science and Engineering Applications, 6 (3), pp.60. https://www.mdpi.com/2225-1154/6/3/60

The R package used to compare various LCZ classifications :

Gousseff, M., Bocher,E., Bernard, J.,Le Saux Wiederhold, E. (2023). lczexplore : an R package to explore Local Climate Zone classifications. Journal of Open Source Software, pre-print https://github.com/openjournals/joss-papers/blob/joss.05445/joss.05445/10.21105.joss.05445.pdf