The impact of land use and land cover changes on land surface temperature in a rapidly urbanizing megacity

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 6337-6339

  Dewan, Ashraf M ^a   Corner, Robert J ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Geographic Information Systems; Remote Sensing; Urban areas

Indexed keywords

BANGLADESH; LAND COVER; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; LAND USE AND LAND COVER CHANGE; LAND-COVER TYPES; MEGACITIES; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; URBAN AREAS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GEOLOGY; LAND USE; REMOTE SENSING;

LANDFORMS;

EID: 84873144083     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6352709     Document Type: Conference Paper

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