Article: A QGIS Tool for Automatically Identifying Asbestos Roofing
ISPRS international journal of geo-information. 2019 Mar. 06, v. 8, no. 3
2019
Abstract: Exposure to asbestos fibers implies a long-term risk for human health; therefore, the development of information systems that are able to detect the extent and status of asbestos over a certain territory has become a priority. This work presents a tool ( ... ...
| Abstract | Exposure to asbestos fibers implies a long-term risk for human health; therefore, the development of information systems that are able to detect the extent and status of asbestos over a certain territory has become a priority. This work presents a tool (based on the geographic information system open source software, QGIS) that is conceived for automatically identifying buildings with asbestos roofing. The area under investigation is the metropolitan area around Prato (Italy). The performance analysis of this system was carried out by classifying images that were acquired by the WorldView-3 sensor. These images are available at a low cost when compared with those obtained by means of aerial surveys, and they provide adequate resolution levels for roofing classification. The tool, a QGIS plugin, has shown fairly good performance in identifying asbestos roofing, with some false negatives and some false positives when applying a per-pixel classification. A performance improvement is obtainable when considering the percentage of asbestos pixels that are contained in each roof of the analyzed image. This value is also available with the plugin. In the future, this tool should make it possible to monitor the asbestos roof removal process over time in the area of interest, in accordance with other image data that give evidence of such removals. |
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| Keywords | aerial surveys ; asbestos ; buildings ; computer software ; geographic information systems ; health effects assessments ; human health ; information systems ; metropolitan areas ; Italy |
| Language | English |
| Dates of publication | 2019-0306 |
| Publishing place | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute |
| Document type | Article |
| ZDB-ID | 2655790-3 |
| ISSN | 2220-9964 |
| ISSN | 2220-9964 |
| DOI | 10.3390/ijgi8030131 |
| Database | NAL-Catalogue (AGRICOLA) |
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