Assessing the long-term urban heat island in San Antonio, Texas based on moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer/Aqua data

Journal of Applied Remote Sensing

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Xie, Hongjie ^a   Chang, Ni Bin ^b   Daranpob, Ammarin ^b   Prado, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Heat island; Land surface temperature; MODIS

Indexed keywords

LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; LAND USE; LANDFORMS; RADIOMETERS; RURAL AREAS; SPECTROMETERS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; HEAT ISLAND; LAND USE AND LAND COVER; METEOROLOGICAL STATION; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; MODIS; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; TEMPERATURE CLIMATOLOGIES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

EID: 80053592569     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19313195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3335611     Document Type: Article

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