M9. COLOURING LEBANON - colouring-cities/manual GitHub Wiki
Colouring Beirut was the first platform to reproduce Colouring London code. The site is temporarily inactivate owing to wider issues affecting Lebanon as a whole. Relaunch and expansion is planned for 2023.
Academic institution/department or academic consortium
The American University of Beirut. Urban Lab
Host link
National research institution verification link
To be completed
City/Cities selected for initial testing
Beirut
Platform link
Awaiting relaunch post discussion at the Women in Data Science Conference, AUB, Beirut April 2023
Social media links
To be completed
Relevant articles, publications and events links
Please also add publications/events to the group page here
Krayem, Alaa, Aram Yeretzian, Ghaleb Faour, and Sara Najem. ‘Machine Learning for Buildings’ Characterization and Power-Law Recovery of Urban Metrics.’ PLOS ONE 16, no. 1 (January 28, 2021): e0246096.
CCRP membership start date
Involvement in Colouring London from 2019
Anticipated launch date
- Demonstration model: Launched 2019 but currently paused owing to resource shortages in Beirut
- National rollout: Not known
Academic Team
(Please also record all significant contributions from Colouring Cities alumni with from/to dates so all team members are credited)
- Principal Investigator: Dr Sara Najem
Multidisciplinary expertise
Urban analytics, machine learning, urban infrastructure risk and resilience analysis, mathematics of cities, physics
Key Collaborators
National Center for Remote Sensing (CNRS) of the Conseil National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS-Lebanon)
Additional partners, advisors and consultees
To be completed
Funding
Grant 1: Date (from/to)
- Amount:
- Funder: American University of Beirut
- Purpose:
Open building footprint source
Description of footprint source, any restrictions, plans for updating, level of accuracy, issues arising etc To be completed
Primary research interest/s in reproduction of platform code
To be completed
Secondary research interest/s for reproduction of platform code
To be completed
What are the most useful aspects of the Colouring Cities Research Programme for you?
To be completed
What are the greatest challenges you anticipate during platform set up e.g. open footprint access, engineering support funding etc?
To be completed
What could we add/do that would be of use? (e.g add features, new data categories, joint papers, joint funding applications etc.
To be completed
Key Advisors and consultees
To be completed
Colouring Lebanon/Beirut citations, articles etc.
To be completed
Plan of action 2022
To be completed
Updates
To be completed