A new technique for predicting the sky-view factor for urban heat Island assessment

Geographical Bulletin - Gamma Theta Upsilon

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 85-96

  Drezner, Taly Dawn ^a   Shaker, Richard R ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Geographic information system; Geographically weighted regression; Milwaukee; Sky view factor; Surface geometry; Urban heat island

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; GIS; HEAT ISLAND; MODELING; PHOTOGRAPHY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; URBAN CLIMATE;

MILWAUKEE; UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

EID: 77958174956     PISSN: 07313292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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