Articles | Volume 19
https://doi.org/10.5194/asr-19-13-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/asr-19-13-2022
02 May 2022
 | 02 May 2022

Using machine learning to produce a cost-effective national building height map of Ireland to categorise local climate zones

Eoghan Keany, Geoffrey Bessardon, and Emily Gleeson

Data sets

Building Height 2012 European Environment Agency https://land.copernicus.eu/local/urban-atlas/building-height-2012

Model code and software

Ekeany/Ireland_building_heights: Irish Building Height Map Creation E. Keany https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6501910

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Short summary
This work used machine learning to produce the first open source building height map of Ireland. This map is intended to more accurately determine Local Climate Zones for use in the underlying physiography dataset in the HARMONIE AROME numerical weather prediction model.