Developing a wind turbine planning platform: Integration of “sound propagation model–GIS-game engine” triplet

Rafiee, Azarakhsh; Male, Pim van der; Dias, Eduardo; Scholten, H.J.

doi:10.1016/j.envsoft.2017.06.019

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“…Integration of GIS techniques and the standard protocols into the game engine enabled us to serve large geospatial data of the whole of the Netherlands from different resources into the interactive environment where optimized visualization and various interactions are its two key features (Rafiee et al, 2017).…”

Section: -Integration Of Gis Into a Game Enginementioning

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“…7). Once a wind turbine is added to the scene, different technical information of the turbine is presented to the user (Rafiee et al, 2017). Geometric information (e.g.…”

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“…The distance at which a shadow zone may appear can be predicted with the model described by Wagner et al (1996). The applied sound models of Falcon are explained in details in Rafiee et al, 2017). The different sound model components, namely, geometrical spreading, atmospheric absorption, vegetation effect, ground reflection, air turbulence, diffraction due to obstacles and refraction due to shadow zones are implemented in Falcon as separate noise modules which can be presented detachedly in Falcon.…”

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“…The different sound model components, namely, geometrical spreading, atmospheric absorption, vegetation effect, ground reflection, air turbulence, diffraction due to obstacles and refraction due to shadow zones are implemented in Falcon as separate noise modules which can be presented detachedly in Falcon. The total resulting sound from the turbine on the surrounding buildings, as the integration of all the aforementioned components, is implemented in Falcon geodesign tool (for a detailed explanation see (Rafiee et al, 2017)). Fig.…”

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“…This system, called "Falcon 3D Geodesign Tool" (will be called Falcon throughout the paper), is developed upon a game engine to conduct the fast interactions required for real-time feedbacks of the geodesign process. This system is an extension to the currently developed Falcon for wind turbine site planning, focusing on the noise (Rafiee et al, 2017) which is now further developed to a multidisciplinary geodesign platform. State-ofethe-art GIS techniques have been applied in this tool for serving and querying massive 2D/3D nationwide data.…”

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Interactive 3D geodesign tool for multidisciplinary wind turbine planning

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Wind turbine site planning is a multidisciplinary task comprising of several stakeholder groups from different domains and with different priorities. An information system capable of integrating the knowledge on the multiple aspects of a wind turbine plays a crucial role on providing a common picture to the involved groups. In this study, we have developed an interactive and intuitive 3D system (Falcon) for planning wind turbine locations. This system supports iterative design loops (wind turbine configurations), based on the emerging field of geodesign. The integration of GIS, game engine and the analytical models has resulted in an interactive platform with real-time feedback on the multiple wind turbine aspects which performs efficiently for different use cases and different environmental settings. The implementation of tiling techniques and open standard web services support flexible and on-the-fly loading and querying of different (massive) geospatial elements from different resources. This boosts data accessibility and interoperability that are of high importance in a multidisciplinary process. The incorporation of the analytical models in Falcon makes this system independent from external tools for different environmental impacts estimations and results in a unified platform for performing different environmental analysis in every stage of the scenario design. Game engine techniques, such as collision detection, are applied in Falcon for the real-time implementation of different environmental models (e.g. noise and visibility). The interactivity and real-time performance of Falcon in any location in the whole country assist the stakeholders in the seamless exploration of various scenarios and their resulting environmental effects and provides a scope for an interwoven discussion process. The flexible architecture of the system enables the effortless application of Falcon in other countries, conditional to input data availability. The embedded open web standards in Falcon results in a smooth integration of different input data which are increasingly available online and through standardized access mechanisms.

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Section: -Integration Of Gis Into a Game Enginementioning

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“…7). Once a wind turbine is added to the scene, different technical information of the turbine is presented to the user (Rafiee et al, 2017). Geometric information (e.g.…”

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International Encyclopedia of Geography

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Volunteered geographic information (VGI) refers to geographic information that is acquired and made available to others through the voluntary activities of either individuals or groups. The growth of VGI in the past 10 years is a result of several related technological advances and scientific practices, such as Web 2.0, Geoweb, mobile technologies, neogeography, citizen science, crowdsourcing, and open science. VGI often differs from conventionally produced forms of geographic information, including the types of information produced and the approaches used to acquire it, the methods and techniques for working with it, and the social processes that mediate its creation. As VGI is rapidly merging with the stream of big data, issues regarding its quality assurance, methodology of use, and legal/ethical implications have been raised. As an alternative data source that in many ways complements traditional sources such as those produced by national mapping agencies and cartographic corporations, VGI has been shown to be a valuable data source for a variety of applications, especially in low‐resource areas and time‐sensitive situations.

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Environmental stressors in city traffic are a relevant health threat to urban cyclists and pedestrians. These stressors are multifaceted and include noise pollution, heat, and air pollution such as particulate matter. In the present chapter, we describe the use of wearable sensors carried by volunteers to capture their exposure to environmental stressors on their everyday routes. These wearable sensors are becoming increasingly important to capture the spatial and temporal distribution of environmental factors in the city. They also offer the unique opportunity to provide individualized feedback to the person wearing the sensor as well as possibilities to visualize different stressors in their temporal and spatial distribution in a virtual reality environment. We used the option of providing individualized feedback on personal exposure levels in two randomized controlled field studies. In these experiments, we studied the psychological health-related outcomes of carrying a wearable sensor and receiving feedback on one’s individual exposure levels.

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Developing a wind turbine planning platform: Integration of “sound propagation model–GIS-game engine” triplet

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Interactive 3D geodesign tool for multidisciplinary wind turbine planning

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