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Faculty: TBD The HARLS-CS supplements ongoing research projects analyzing the morphology of cities for urban dispersion, urban air quality, mesoscale meteorological, and urban climate modeling studies. To date, the Civil Engineering Department in collaboration with researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, has accumulated 3D datasets of the buildings and vegetation of ten U.S. cities (Albuquerque, Houston, Los Angeles, Manhattan, Phoenix, Portland, Oklahoma City, Rosslyn, Salt Lake City, Washington). The datasets are derived from a number of sources including stereo images and airborne LIDAR, integrated with numerous 2D datasets (e.g., multispectral imagery, soils, infrastructure), and processed to compute morphological and surface cover parameters used in the suite of DoE Chemical and Biological Nonproliferation Program (CBNP) urban dispersion models. The HARLS-CS enables the University of Arkansas researchers to collect high resolution topographic and multispectral data that greatly enhance these research efforts. Moreover, the increased capabilities for high resolution 3D urban dataset collection significantly improves the opportunities for the University of Arkansas to partner with the national laboratories in high-fidelity urban dispersion modeling applications, the U.S. EPA in neighborhood scale urban air quality studies, and the NASA in urban climate and meteorology modification studies; all areas of current collaboration or discussion.
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