Remotely sensing the cooling effects of city scale efforts to reduce urban heat island

Building and Environment

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 348-358

  Mackey, Christopher W ^a   Lee, Xuhui ^b   Smith, Ronald B ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

Albedo; Chicago; NDVI; Reflective roof; Urban heat island; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

AERIAL IMAGES; ALBEDO; CHICAGO; CITY SCALE; COOLING EFFECTS; GREEN ROOF; GREEN SPACES; HEAT ISLAND; LANDSAT; LANDSAT IMAGES; LARGE-SCALE APPLICATIONS; LINEAR CORRELATION; NDVI; REFLECTIVE SURFACES; SMALL-SCALE APPLICATIONS; STEEPER SLOPES; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; URBAN HEAT ISLAND;

COOLING; ROOFS; THERMAL POLLUTION; VEGETATION;

SOLAR RADIATION;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; ALBEDO; COOLING; HEAT ISLAND; LANDSAT; NDVI; PIXEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; URBAN CLIMATE;

CHICAGO; ILLINOIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 81255127262     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2011.08.004     Document Type: Article

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