Eyes in the sky A PhD student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is using drones to record the surface temperatures of different types of urban buildings to help understand which forms of adaptation strategies can best be used to combat climate change, especially in the developing world. Norhan Bayomi is developing a computational tool that incorporates building performance, resource availability and population adaptive capacity to model heat risk in urban areas. The project was funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under grant number 1238722. She has also extended her research to include communities in the Bronx, New York.
A PhD student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is using drones to record the surface temperatures of different types of urban buildings to help understand which forms of adaptation strategies can best be used to combat climate change, especially in the developing world. Norhan Bayomi is developing a computational tool that incorporates building performance, resource availability and population adaptive capacity to model heat risk in urban areas. The project was funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under grant number 1238722. She has also extended her research to include communities in the Bronx, New York.