Spatiotemporal pattern of urban heat island in Lanzhou of Northwest China based on fractal net evolution approach and spectral mixture analysis

Chinese Journal of Ecology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 178-185

  Pan, Jing Hu ^a   Yang, Wang Ming ^b  

^a NORTHWEST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Fractal net evolution approach; Impervious surface; Spectral mixture analysis; Urban heat island

Indexed keywords

HEAT ISLAND; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; LOW TEMPERATURE; REMOTE SENSING; SEGMENTATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE AREA; VEGETATION COVER;

CHINA; GANSU; LANZHOU;

EID: 84878277195     PISSN: 10004890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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