Remote sensing of the urban heat island effect across biomes in the continental USA

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 504-513

  Imhoff, Marc L ^a   Zhang, Ping ^a,b   Wolfe, Robert E ^a   Bounoua, Lahouari ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b Earth Resources Technology Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomes; Impervious surface area; Land surface temperature; Landsat; MODIS; Remote sensing; Urban heat island

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL CYCLE; DATA SETS; ECOLOGICAL SETTINGS; HORIZONTAL GRADIENTS; IMPERVIOUS SURFACE AREA; INTERCOMPARISONS; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; LANDSAT; LANDSAT TM; MIXED FORESTS; RESIDENTIAL ENERGY CONSUMPTION; SEMI-ARID CLIMATE; SKIN TEMPERATURES; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCES; TOTAL VARIANCE; U-SHAPED; URBAN AREAS; URBAN CORE; URBAN GROWTH; URBAN HEAT ISLAND; URBAN-RURAL;

ATMOSPHERICS; ECOLOGY; HEAT FLUX; LANDFORMS; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; RURAL AREAS; SPACE TIME ADAPTIVE PROCESSING; SPECTROMETERS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE PROPERTIES; THERMAL POLLUTION; URBAN PLANNING;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

BIOME; ENERGY USE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HEAT ISLAND; LAND SURFACE; LANDSAT; MODIS; NDVI; REMOTE SENSING; RURAL AREA; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; URBAN AREA;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 74149084261     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2009.10.008     Document Type: Article

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