An Empirical Case Study GeoAI Usage for Sustainability Scoring of University Campuses

Abstract

UI GreenMetric (GM) ranking system is a methodology to score and rank the university campuses in several categories. The campuses are measured according to their various sustainability indicators in this methodology. The base of this research to study on how we can use geoAI to calculate GM Setting & Infrastructure (SI) score. By this empirical case study to have ideas connected with the relation of score point and geospatial metrics by recognized of google map geotiff images of university campuses. To develop a geoIA methodology with KooMap cloud service in the purpose of sustainability scoring would provide a practical, accurate and pretty objective algorithm for a smart campus evaluation. In the way of transforming to smart city these applications and utilizations of geoAI are the digital trends of new era.

Keywords

• geoAI
• sustainability
• university campus
• greenmetric

Supporting Institution

I declare that this work is not funded.

Ethical Statement

I declare that this work is an original work.

Thanks

I thank to Cevat Kamer Dincer, Engineering Manager of KooMap for his appreciated expertise while processing campus geospatial data. I thank to Sevket Yurdacan, Director of HTRDC Integration Solution Development (ISD) Department for his support and motivation. And I acknowledge to Erhan Akturk, Project Manager and Engineering Manager for their expertise and review.

Ampirik Bir Vaka Çalışması: Üniversite Kampüslerinin Sürdürülebilirlik Puanlaması için GeoAI Kullanımı

Abstract

UI-GreenMetric (GM) sıralama sistemi, üniversite kampüslerini çeşitli kategorilerde puanlamak ve sıralamak için kullanılan bir metodolojidir. Bu metodolojide kampüsler çeşitli sürdürülebilirlik göstergelerine göre ölçülür. Bu araştırmanın temeli, GM Setting & Infrastructure (SI) puanını hesaplamak için geoAI'yi nasıl kullanabileceğimizi incelemektir. Bu uygulamalı örnek olay incelemesi ile üniversite kampüslerinin Google Map Geotiff görüntülerini tanıyarak puanlama ve jeo uzamsal metrikler ilişkisine ilişkin fikirlere sahip olunması amaçlanmaktadır. Sürdürülebilirlik puanlaması amacıyla KooMap bulut hizmeti ile bir jeoloji metodolojisi geliştirmek, akıllı bir kampüs değerlendirmesi için pratik, doğru ve oldukça objektif bir algoritma sağlayacaktır. Akıllı şehre dönüşüm yolunda bu uygulamalar ve geoAI kullanımı yeni çağın dijital trendleridir.

Keywords

• sürdürülebilirlik
• üniversite kampüsü
• greenmetric
• akıllı kampüs
• cografi yapay zeka

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