Abstract
The problem of illegal buildings (IBs) is becoming dramatic in developing countries due to the population explosion, but, at the same time, it is still an unsolved issue also in several states usually called advanced (e.g., Italy). To protect the environment and, hence, people, authorities must respond to the challenge of IBs by demolishing them. However, in countries where the phenomenon is extended, it is indispensable provide land managers with IT tools that guide them in defining an order of intervention towards demolition. Through remote sensing methods, we can identify suspicious buildings with a good approximation, but they are all ex-aequo. The research described in this work proposes three metrics to rank the IBs located close to rivers. The ranking may be used as the IBs demolition order.
Research supported by an internal grant of the University of L’Aquila.
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The elevation of point Q is its height above the sea level; while the elevation variation of building \(b_i\) (described by its centroid) with respect to a river (described by the point, belonging to the river geometry, most close to \(b_i\)) is the value, taken with sign, of the difference given by the equation:
$$\begin{aligned} {\varDelta }h_{b_i} = h_{b_i} - h_{r_j}.\qquad \qquad \qquad \qquad \qquad \qquad (4) \end{aligned}$$
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Di Felice, P. (2019). Metrics to Rank Illegal Buildings. In: Misra, S., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2019. ICCSA 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11620. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24296-1_4
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