Climate and water sensitive urban design
ENV-526
TARGET - input data and resources
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Description
Here you find the paper by Broadbent et al. (2019): https://gmd.copernicus.org/articles/12/785/2019/
TARGET can be downloaded/cloned here: https://mothlight.github.io/target_model/
TARGET troubleshooting
Install Visual studio code and the extension WSL or Install Ubunto. Installing TARGET from there would be easier than installing from Windows system. The reason is some codes and symbols TARGET use are in Linux.
1. Install Visual studio code and the extension WSL
2. Connect to WSL on Visual Studio Code (click the left-bottom corner) and enter the Target directory on WSL terminal
3. Make sure you also have python available in WSL. It is available in the extension
4. Then you should be able to install TARGET following the manual without major error
Some possible minor error after step 4:
# sympy not found, numpy not found
pip install sympy numpy
# pip not found
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python3-pip OR sudo apt-get install python-pip
# “javac” not found
sudo apt install openjdk-11-jdk-headless
Additional resources
You can calculate the height of buildings using data from "swissSURFACE3D Raster" minus "swissALTI3D":
swissSURFACE3D Raster: https://www.swisstopo.admin.ch/en/height-model-swisssurface3d-raster
Hint: this can be used to calculate the canyon aspect ratio (H/W) and the sky view factor (which can provide an estimate of the urban heat island intensity - see slides).