Speaking of the Marin effort, Mr. Marcus said: "If these things can be shown to work and either get cheaper or greener power, then P.G. & E.'s shareholders are in worse position in terms of building new generating plants.
"A satellite photo can show you how much of the land is open, how much is wooded, the position of buildings with respect to the roads and what other kind of properties are next door," Mr. King said.
The resolution, which has yet to pass a committee vote before going to the full Assembly, is meant to encourage planning agencies, building departments and design review boards to provide for the use of feng shui principles, which often touch on the placement of doors and staircases, the position of buildings and the alignment of objects in rooms.
The shadows can be used to recognize and track object in video surveillance and estimate the height and/or position of buildings.
In addition to openings, the dimension ratio and position of buildings play a significant role to obtain a uniform indoor air velocity distribution.
In Freiburg, the principles of energy savings and solar optimization are early considered in the planning phase of housing development, e.g., by defining the orientation and position of buildings or by obligatory low-energy construction requirements [4].
The results reveal that the physical characteristics of the urban shape, such as construction density, the existence of open spaces, and the shape and physical position of buildings exert a significant influence on environmental noise.
The spatial distribution of this kind of pollution is linked to various elements which make up the urban form, such as construction density, the existence of open spaces and the shape and physical position of buildings.
It's not building a sense-and-avoid object detection system — rather it's licensing data pertaining to the position of buildings, people and cars in urban environments, as well as weather conditions, and feeding that into its risk assessment platform.
In a group of 20 elderly (mean age 62.1 years) right-handed individuals, we applied transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS; 20 minutes, 1 mA) over the right temporoparietal cortex, while subjects acquired the correct position of buildings on a street map using an associative learning paradigm.
