Understanding the relationship between urban land surface temperature, landscape heterogeneity and social structure

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 3933-3936

  Huang, Ganlin ^a   Zhou, Weiqi ^a   Cadenasso, M L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Census block group; Heterogeneity; Land cover; Land surface temperature; NDVI; Socioeconomic status; Urban heat island

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; LANDFORMS; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURVEYS; URBAN PLANNING;

BLOCK GROUP; HETEROGENEITY; LAND COVER; NDVI; SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS; URBAN HEAT ISLAND;

LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 78650858430     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2010.5649806     Document Type: Conference Paper

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