Lucid Sky View Factor

Large scale high quality sky view factor calculation

High Performance

Proprietary HPC (High Performance Computing) technology
Supports huge datasets (hundreds of gigabytes)
60X faster than state-of-the-art competing alternatives
Out-of-core algorithm

High Quality

Large scale very high resolution DEMs
No downsampling needed
Global model
1000+ light source directions

Applications

Urban Planning and Analysis at Municipal Scale
Solar Energy and Climate
Coverage Maps in Communication
Landslide Activity

Benchmark Results

LiDAR-based 0.5m resolution DEM
6800x6800 pixels, 3000 light sources
Xeon server, 40 cores: 3.2 seconds
Laptop, 4 cores: 16.5 seconds