Scaling of impervious surface area and vegetation as indicators to urban land surface temperature using satellite data

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 841-859

  Zhang, X ^a,b   Zhong, T ^b   Wang, K ^a   Cheng, Z ^c  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION TREES; IMAGE RESOLUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE PROPERTIES; VEGETATION;

CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ENHANCED THEMATIC MAPPER PLUS (ETM+); IMPERVIOUS SURFACE AREA; LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE BUILDING INDICES; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; PERCENT IMPERVIOUS SURFACES; URBAN LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

IKONOS; LAND COVER; LAND SURFACE; NDVI; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; THEMATIC MAPPING; URBAN AREA; VEGETATION;

EID: 67650669290     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160802395219     Document Type: Article

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