Urban heat island lesson

Geocarto International

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 473-483

  Baumann, Paul R ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Landsat; Remote sensing; Thermal IR; Urban geography; Urban heat island

Indexed keywords

HEAT ISLAND; LANDSAT; REMOTE SENSING; THERMAL INFRARED MULTISPECTRAL SCANNER; URBAN CLIMATE; URBAN GEOGRAPHY;

EID: 70450228492     PISSN: 10106049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10106040902781028     Document Type: Article

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