List of works - Benjamin Bechtel

2017 IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest: Open Data for Global Multimodal Land Use Classification [Technical Committees]

scholarly article published March 2017

A Weighted Accuracy Measure for Land Cover Mapping: Comment on Johnson et al. Local Climate Zone (LCZ) Map Accuracy Assessments Should Account for Land Cover Physical Characteristics that Affect the Local Thermal Environment. Remote Sens. 2019, 11, 2

scientific article published on 31 May 2020

A global map of local climate zones to support earth system modelling and urban-scale environmental science

scientific article published in 2022

Assessing the Capability of a Downscaled Urban Land Surface Temperature Time Series to Reproduce the Spatiotemporal Features of the Original Data

Beyond the urban mask

scholarly article published March 2017

Classification of Local Climate Zones Based on Multiple Earth Observation Data

article by Benjamin Bechtel & Christian Daneke published August 2012 in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Classification of Local Climate Zones Using SAR and Multispectral Data in an Arid Environment

scholarly article

Combining expert and crowd-sourced training data to map urban form and functions for the continental US

scientific article published on 11 August 2020

Comparison between convolutional neural networks and random forest for local climate zone classification in mega urban areas using Landsat images

scientific article published in 2019

Developing a community-based worldwide urban morphology and materials database (WUDAPT) using remote sensing and crowdsourcing for improved urban climate modelling

Floristic mapping data as a proxy for the mean urban heat island

scientific article

Generating WUDAPT Level 0 data – Current status of production and evaluation

scientific article published in March 2019

Global transferability of local climate zone models

scientific article published in March 2019

High-resolution land use and land cover dataset for regional climate modelling: a plant functional type map for Europe 2015

scientific article published on 13 April 2022

High-resolution land use and land cover dataset for regional climate modelling: historical and future changes in Europe

scientific article published in 2023

High-resolution land-use land-cover change data for regional climate modelling applications over Europe – Part 2: Historical and future changes

scientific article published on 10 August 2021

Identification of typical diurnal patterns for clear-sky climatology of surface urban heat islands

scholarly article by Jiameng Lai et al published November 2018 in Remote Sensing of Environment

Improving the Downscaling of Diurnal Land Surface Temperatures Using the Annual Cycle Parameters as Disaggregation Kernels

Linking urban climate classification with an urban energy and water budget model: Multi-site and multi-seasonal evaluation

article

Mapping Europe into local climate zones

scientific article published on 24 April 2019

Mapping Local Climate Zones for a Worldwide Database of the Form and Function of Cities

scholarly article by Benjamin Bechtel et al published 2 February 2015 in International Journal of Geo Information

Mapping the Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Europe’s Land Surface Temperatures

article

Open Data for Global Multimodal Land Use Classification: Outcome of the 2017 IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest

scholarly article published May 2018

Pathway using WUDAPT's Digital Synthetic City tool towards generating urban canopy parameters for multi-scale urban atmospheric modeling

scientific article published in June 2019

Quality of Crowdsourced Data on Urban Morphology—The Human Influence Experiment (HUMINEX)

SUHI analysis using Local Climate Zones—A comparison of 50 cities

scientific article published in June 2019

Summer average urban-rural surface temperature differences do not indicate the need for urban heat reduction

scientific article published on 20 June 2020

TOWARDS CONSISTENT MAPPING OF URBAN STRUCTURES – GLOBAL HUMAN SETTLEMENT LAYER AND LOCAL CLIMATE ZONES

The 2017 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Data Fusion Contest: Open Data for Global Multimodal Land Use Classification [Technical Committees]

The Human Influence Experiment (Part 2): Guidelines for Improved Mapping of Local Climate Zones Using a Supervised Classification

scientific article published on 28 February 2019

Towards an urban roughness parameterisation using interferometric SAR data taking the Metropolitan Region of Hamburg as an example

Urban climate zone classification using convolutional neural network and ground-level images

scientific article published in 2019

WUDAPT, an efficient land use producing data tool for mesoscale models? Integration of urban LCZ in WRF over Madrid

article

List of works by Benjamin Bechtel

2017 IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest: Open Data for Global Multimodal Land Use Classification [Technical Committees]

A Weighted Accuracy Measure for Land Cover Mapping: Comment on Johnson et al. Local Climate Zone (LCZ) Map Accuracy Assessments Should Account for Land Cover Physical Characteristics that Affect the Local Thermal Environment. Remote Sens. 2019, 11, 2

A global map of local climate zones to support earth system modelling and urban-scale environmental science

Assessing the Capability of a Downscaled Urban Land Surface Temperature Time Series to Reproduce the Spatiotemporal Features of the Original Data

Beyond the urban mask

Classification of Local Climate Zones Based on Multiple Earth Observation Data

Classification of Local Climate Zones Using SAR and Multispectral Data in an Arid Environment

Combining expert and crowd-sourced training data to map urban form and functions for the continental US

Comparison between convolutional neural networks and random forest for local climate zone classification in mega urban areas using Landsat images

Developing a community-based worldwide urban morphology and materials database (WUDAPT) using remote sensing and crowdsourcing for improved urban climate modelling

Floristic mapping data as a proxy for the mean urban heat island

Generating WUDAPT Level 0 data – Current status of production and evaluation

Global transferability of local climate zone models

High-resolution land use and land cover dataset for regional climate modelling: a plant functional type map for Europe 2015

High-resolution land use and land cover dataset for regional climate modelling: historical and future changes in Europe

High-resolution land-use land-cover change data for regional climate modelling applications over Europe – Part 2: Historical and future changes

Identification of typical diurnal patterns for clear-sky climatology of surface urban heat islands

Improving the Downscaling of Diurnal Land Surface Temperatures Using the Annual Cycle Parameters as Disaggregation Kernels

Linking urban climate classification with an urban energy and water budget model: Multi-site and multi-seasonal evaluation

Mapping Europe into local climate zones

Mapping Local Climate Zones for a Worldwide Database of the Form and Function of Cities

Mapping the Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Europe’s Land Surface Temperatures

Open Data for Global Multimodal Land Use Classification: Outcome of the 2017 IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest

Pathway using WUDAPT's Digital Synthetic City tool towards generating urban canopy parameters for multi-scale urban atmospheric modeling

Quality of Crowdsourced Data on Urban Morphology—The Human Influence Experiment (HUMINEX)

SUHI analysis using Local Climate Zones—A comparison of 50 cities

Summer average urban-rural surface temperature differences do not indicate the need for urban heat reduction

TOWARDS CONSISTENT MAPPING OF URBAN STRUCTURES – GLOBAL HUMAN SETTLEMENT LAYER AND LOCAL CLIMATE ZONES

The 2017 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Data Fusion Contest: Open Data for Global Multimodal Land Use Classification [Technical Committees]

The Human Influence Experiment (Part 2): Guidelines for Improved Mapping of Local Climate Zones Using a Supervised Classification

Towards an urban roughness parameterisation using interferometric SAR data taking the Metropolitan Region of Hamburg as an example

Urban climate zone classification using convolutional neural network and ground-level images

WUDAPT, an efficient land use producing data tool for mesoscale models? Integration of urban LCZ in WRF over Madrid