Comparison of impervious surface area and normalized difference vegetation index as indicators of surface urban heat island effects in Landsat imagery

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 375-386

  Yuan, Fei ^a   Bauer, Marvin E ^b  

^a MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY MANKATO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Impervious surface area; Land surface temperature; Landsat TM ETM+; Normalized difference vegetation index; Spectral mixture analysis; Surface urban heat island

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFRARED IMAGING; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; VEGETATION;

IMPERVIOUS SURFACE AREA; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; SPECTRAL MIXTURE ANALYSIS; SURFACE URBAN HEAT ISLAND;

GEOMORPHOLOGY;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEAT ISLAND; LAND SURFACE; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; METROPOLITAN AREA; NDVI; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

MINNEAPOLIS; MINNESOTA; NORTH AMERICA; SAINT PAUL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33846300967     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2006.09.003     Document Type: Article

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