Satellite and ground-based sensors for the Urban Heat Island analysis in the city of Rome

Remote Sensing

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1400-1415

  Fabrizi, Roberto ^a   Bonafoni, Stefania ^a   Biondi, Riccardo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Air temperature; Satellite remote sensing; Urban Heat Island; Weather stations

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED-ALONG TRACK SCANNING RADIOMETERS; AIR TEMPERATURE; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; CANOPY LAYER; ENVISAT; GROUND BASED; GROUND BASED SENSORS; HEAT ISLAND; INFRA-RED SENSOR; POLAR-ORBITING SATELLITES; SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS; SUMMER MONTHS; URBAN HEAT ISLAND; WEATHER STATIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; LUMINANCE; REMOTE SENSING; THERMAL POLLUTION; WEATHER INFORMATION SERVICES;

GEODETIC SATELLITES;

EID: 84860389482     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs2051400     Document Type: Article

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