Urban heat island effect across biomes in the continental USA

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1920-1923

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

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b Earth Resources Technology Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

GIS; Image region analysis; Remote sensing; Temperature measurement; Urban areas

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; LANDFORMS; REMOTE SENSING; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

ECOLOGICAL SETTINGS; HORIZONTAL GRADIENTS; IMAGE REGION ANALYSIS; IMPERVIOUS SURFACE AREA; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; URBAN AREAS; URBAN HEAT ISLAND; URBAN HEAT ISLAND EFFECTS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

EID: 78650911656     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2010.5653907     Document Type: Conference Paper

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