Last update: August 2026

Papers

2026

Rahmawati, A., Gao, W., León Sánchez, C., Giannelli, D., Agugiaro, G., 2026,
Scenario-based energy simulation of tree planting strategies to reduce the heating and cooling demand of buildings under 2050 climate.
ISPRS Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.,.


2025

León Sánchez, C., Agugiaro, G., Stoter, J. 2025,
Lessons learnt from the integration of open data and semantic 3D city models for urban building energy modelling in the Netherlands.
ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, X-4/W7-2025, 89-96.
🏆 Best Young Researcher Award at the 9th International Smart Data and Smart Cities conference 2025.

Gao, W., Agugiaro, G., León Sánchez, C. 2025,
Data-Driven Energy Simulations To Evaluate Positive Energy District Potential In Rotterdam.
ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, X-4/W7-2025, 25-32.

Tsai, B.-S., Agugiaro, G., León Sánchez, C., Nagel, C., Yao, Z. 2025,
Introducing server-side support for 3DCityDB 5.0 to the 3DCityDB-Tools plug-in for QGIS.
ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences. X-4/W6-2025, 193-200.


León Sánchez, C., Giannelli, D., Agugiaro, G., Stoter, J., 2025,
Comparative Analysis of Geospatial Tools for Solar Simulation.
Transactions in GIS. Volume 29, Issue 1 February 2025. Wiley.


2024

León-Rueda, W., Gómez-Caro, S., Mendoza-Vargas, L., León Sánchez, C., Ramírez-Gil, J. 2024,
Linking the Laboratory and the Field in Potato Early Dying Detection: From Spectral Signatures to Vegetation Indices Obtained with Multispectral Cameras Coupled to Drones.
Agronomy 14, no. 7: 1569. MDPI.

Xu, L., León Sánchez, C., Agugiaro, G., Stoter, J. 2024,
High resolution solar potential computation in large scale urban areas by means of semantic 3D city models.
Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., XLVIII-4/W11-2024, 167–174.

Bachert, C., León Sánchez, C., Kutzner, T., Agugiaro, G., 2024,
Mapping the CityGML Energy ADE to CityGML 3.0 using a model-driven approach..
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 2024; 13 , no. 4: 121. MDPI.

2023

Agugiaro, G., Pantelios, K., León Sánchez, C., Yao, Z., Nagel, C. 2024,
Introducing the 3DCityDB-Tools Plug-In for QGIS.
Recent Advances in 3D Geoinformation Science. 3DGeoInfo 2023. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer, Cham.

Xu, L., León Sánchez, C., Agugiaro, G., Stoter, J. 2024,
Shadowing Calculation on Urban Areas from Semantic 3D City Models.
Recent Advances in 3D Geoinformation Science. 3DGeoInfo 2023. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer, Cham.

2022

León Sánchez, C., Agugiaro, G., and Stoter, J. 2022,
Creation of a CityGML-based 3D city model testbed for energy-related applications.
ISPRS Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, XLVIII-4/W5-2022, pp. 97–103

Agugiaro, G., Zwamborn, A., Tigchelaar, C., Matthijssen, E., León Sánchez, C., Van der Molen, F., Stoter, J. 2022,
On the influence of party walls for Urban Energy Modelling.
ISPRS Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, XLVIII-4/W5-2022, pp. 9-16

Tufan Ö., Arroyo Ohori K., León Sánchez, C., Agugiaro G., Stoter J. 2022,
Development and testing of the CityJSON energy extension for space heating demand calculation.
ISPRS Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, XLVIII-4/W4-2022, pp. 169–176

Montilla, Y. M., León Sánchez, C., Lizarazo Salcedo I. 2022,
Creation, implementation and evaluation of an indoor navigation system for users with disabilities.
ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, X-4/W2-2022, pp. 201–208

Giannelli, D., León Sánchez, C., Agugiaro G. 2022,
Comparison and evaluation of different GIS software tools to estimate solar irradiation.
ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, V-4-2022, pp. 275-282


Mora Castañeda, D., León Sánchez, C., Lizarazo, I. 2022,
Optimization of urban land-cover classification workflow based on geographic-object analysis using very-high-resolution imagery.
DYNA, V-89-220, pp. 43-53


2021

León-Rueda, W. A., León Sánchez, C., Gómez-Caro, S., Ramírez-Gil, J. G. 2021,
Identification of diseases and physiological disorders in potato via multispectral drone imagery using machine learning tools.
Tropical Plant Pathology, Vol. 47, pp 152-167

León Sánchez, C., Giannelli, D., Agugiaro, G., and Stoter, J. 2021,
Testing the new 3D bag dataset for energy demand estimation of residential buildings.
ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, XLVI-4/W1-2021, pp. 69–76

Doan, T. Q., León Sánchez, C., Peters R., Agugiaro G. and Stoter, J. 2021,
Volume comparison of automatically reconstructed multi-lod building models for urban planning applications.
ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, V-4-2021, pp. 169–176

Ruiz Orejuela, L. Lizarazo, I., León Sánchez, C., 2021,
Nuevo enfoque al problema de la localización óptima para equipamientos de justicia.
Revista Internacional de Tecnología, Conocimiento y Sociedad,
Volume: 9 Issue: 2, pp. 169–176

2020

Montilla, Y. M., León Sánchez, C., 2020,
3D modelling of a building oriented to indoor navigation system for users with different mobility conditions.
ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, VI-4/W2-2020, pp. 103–109

Theses

PhD

León Sánchez, C., 2025,
Enhancing urban energy applications through semantic 3D city models and open data. The case of the Netherlands.
Doctoral Thesis. Section Urban Data Science, Department of Urbanism. Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology

MSc

León Sánchez, C., 2015,
Evaluation of digital techniques for coffee crops identification from multispectral imagery.
MSc. in Information Sciences and Communications, Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas

León Sánchez, C., 2013,
Estimation of Electric Energy Demand using 3D City Models.
MSc in Geodesy and Geoinformation Sciences, Technische Univerität Berlin.