Solar Reflectance Index (SRI) is a key measure in estimating the Urban Heat Island effect. Attribution available in Geoscape Buildings 3.0 can be used to calculate SRI and show how much dark roofs affect the Urban Heat Island. The NSW planning minister Rob Stokes has foreshadowed a change in policy to ban dark roofs as […]
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Geoscape Buildings and Urban Heat Islands | A tech deep dive
Can Geoscape Buildings be used to assist in managing the impacts of roof selection urban heat island effect? Check out this blog to learn more.
New artificial intelligence tech to enhance digital model of Australia
Geoscape partners with AI company, GeoX, to use machine vision & deep learning tech to enhance built environment data.
G-NAF Changes – May and August 2021
What is changing? These changes will occur in the May 2021 and August 2021 product releases. There are no structure changes to the G-NAF dataset, rather, the changes are specific to the composition of data in some product fields. The affected fields are: legal_parcel_id (address_detail table) locality_pid (locality, address_detail, locality_alias, locality_neighbour, locality_point, street_locality tables) Why […]