1. Machine learning for buildings' characterization and power-law recovery of urban metrics.
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Krayem, Alaa, Yeretzian, Aram, Faour, Ghaleb, and Najem, Sara
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MACHINE learning , *RANDOM forest algorithms , *ELECTRIC power consumption , *AIRBORNE lasers , *WORKFLOW - Abstract
In this paper we focus on a critical component of the city: its building stock, which holds much of its socio-economic activities. In our case, the lack of a comprehensive database about their features and its limitation to a surveyed subset lead us to adopt data-driven techniques to extend our knowledge to the near-city-scale. Neural networks and random forests are applied to identify the buildings' number of floors and construction periods' dependencies on a set of shape features: area, perimeter, and height along with the annual electricity consumption, relying a surveyed data in the city of Beirut. The predicted results are then compared with established scaling laws of urban forms, which constitutes a further consistency check and validation of our workflow. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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