Urban Expansion and Heat Island Dynamics in the Quanzhou Region, China

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 74-79

  Xu, Hanqiu ^a   Wen, Xiaole ^a   Ding, Feng ^b  

^a FUZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FUJIAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Index based built up index (IBI); land surface temperature; remote sensing; urban expansion; urban heat island ratio index (URI)

Indexed keywords

HEAT ISLAND; INDEX-BASED BUILT-UP INDEX (IBI); LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; LAND-COVER CHANGE; LANDSAT TM IMAGES; MULTI-TEMPORAL; MULTI-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; SOUTHEASTERN CHINA; SPATIAL EXPANSION; URBAN AREAS; URBAN EXPANSION; URBAN-HEAT-ISLAND RATIO INDEX (URI);

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; EXPANSION; HEAT FLUX; REMOTE SENSING; SPACE TIME ADAPTIVE PROCESSING; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

LANDFORMS;

HEAT ISLAND; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; URBAN AREA; URBAN PLANNING; URBANIZATION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; FUJIAN; QUANZHOU;

EID: 70349237146     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2009.2023088     Document Type: Article

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