The aerial thermography project launched by the
Urban Community of Cherbourg (CUC) aims to inform the inhabitants (92.000
inhab.) of the five municipalities of the CUC about thermal losses of their
houses (roofs).
Basically, two aerial photoflights were executed over the CUC
(69km²) during two cold winter nights in order to collect thermal responses of the roofs. After image processing and
cartography, the results comes out with maps showing the heating losses based
on a colored pixel classification (from dark blue to bright red) on cadastral
reference maps. Final objectives are increasing public awareness about energy
consumption and presenting to the inhabitants available housing isolation
subsidies launched by the French government.
Click on the links below for access to some French press articles on this project:
- La Presse de la Manche, 21/06/2010: "Votre maison est-elle bien isolée?"
- Ouest France, 19/06/2010: "Votre maison est-elle bien isolée?"