Remote sensing science to inform urban climate change mitigation strategies

Urban Climate

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-6

  Seto, Karen C ^a   Christensen, Peter ^a  

^a Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Remote sensing; Satellite data; Urban form and structure; Urban mitigation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878233407     PISSN: 22120955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.uclim.2013.03.001     Document Type: Article

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