Dear Manar,

As you may know, LCZ is a climatic classification approach. So, If the city that you are talking about is not built completely, It means, vegetation is not there completely also (which is a key factor in climate studies).

If you have shp of master plan, including height of the buildings, so you can extract indexes like sky view factor and other parameters (which are needed to GIS based classification of LCZs). However, bear in mind, there are so many things you should consider.

Hi Manar, have a look on Ahmed Hazem Eldesoky and @nicola colaninno work on LCZ

Hi Manar, in this case I would go either for a manual sampling (based on visual interpretation and personal knowledge of the master plan) or a GIS-based approach. This will depend on how you intend to use the LCZ maps and for what reason. The GIS-based approach is generally preferred but it requires the availability of a digital topographic database, primarily including buildings and their heights (so that relevant indicators can be calculated, e.g. SVF and H/W ratios of representative street canyons) but also land use (to account for the different ground cover characteristics). For the GIS-based approaches, see, for example, the work of Lelovics et al. (https://doi.org/10.3354/cr01220) and the work of Geletič and Lehnert (https://doi.org/10.1515/mgr-2016-0012), where a full procedure for a applying a GIS mapping of LCZs is explained. Combined approaches, even if they are not directly applicable to your case, might be also a useful source of information for the GIS part. See, for example, the work of Gál et al. (shorturl.at/giDFS) or our work (http://dx.doi.org/10.5821/ctv.8663).

Lastly, have a look at these two recent publications, by Lehnert et al. (2021) and Jang et al. (2021) that comprehensively compare different mapping methods of LCZs and their application.

https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi10040260

https://osf.io/c2bez

Best,

Thanks Ahmed for getting back to Manar :) Ahmed Hazem Eldesoky Manar Talaleldin Mohammed