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<div><font face="Lucida Grande,sans-serif">Interesting. I known that this kind of thing has been done using aerial photographs, among others by a research group at my University. I have cc-d one of its members (Sander Oude-elberink), he might be able to further
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<div><font face="Lucida Grande,sans-serif">Y</font><font face="Lucida Grande,sans-serif">ours,</font></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 1:25 PM, S.A. Mouti <span dir="ltr">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="Times" style="font-size:12px"><span style="background-color:white">I would like to develop an algorithm that uses remote geographic sensing data </span>to automatically identify, highlight, and
measure rooftops and buildings surfaces and contours using <span style="background-color:white">satellite imagery</span>. Our preference is to utilize the existing map providers such as Google Earth/maps or Bing . </font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="Times" style="font-size:12px"> My aim is to get the following outputs from the proposed model:<u></u><u></u><u></u><u></u></font></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="Times" style="font-size:12px"><font color="black">Accurately highlighted and identified rooftops on Google maps (using geo sensing data, elevation? and </font><u></u><u></u></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="Times" style="font-size:12px"><font color="black">Property Address or GPS coordinate.<u></u><u></u></font><u></u><u></u></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="Times" style="font-size:12px"><font color="black">Surface and square footage available for solar power generation including the position of the property(N-S or E-W). At the exact surface of the
south facing portion of the roof.<u></u><u></u></font><u></u><u></u></font> </li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="Times" style="font-size:12px"><font color="black">Integrate sun tool in google maps to calculate shading for each building.</font><u></u><u></u></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font color="black" face="Times" style="font-size:12px">Total surface/square footage of the roof. </font></li></ul>
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<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><font face="Times" style="font-size:12px">I would appreciate your guidance on the following:</font></div>
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<li><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Times">Any individual developers or companies active in this area who would be willing to undertake this challenge</span></li><li><font face="Calibri,sans-serif"><font face="Times"><span style="font-size:12px">View on technical do-ability of the </span></font><span style="font-size:12px">project </span></font></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><font face="Times" style="font-size:12px">What data is needed to build the model and who the providers are? (Google APIs?)</font></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><font face="Times" style="font-size:12px">An idea about the overall cost for such a model.</font></li></ul>
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<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><font face="Times" style="font-size:12px">Thank you</font></div>
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