Temporal variation of Urban Heat Island using landsat data: A case study of Ahmedabad, India

33rd Asian Conference on Remote Sensing 2012, ACRS 2012

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 797-804

  Bajaj, Divya N ^a   Inamdar, Arun B ^a   Vaibhav, Vineet ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

Land cover; Land surface temperature; Thermal remote sensing; Urban Heat Island (UHI)

Indexed keywords

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; LAND COVER; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD CLASSIFIERS; SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION; THERMAL INFRARED IMAGERY; THERMAL REMOTE SENSING; URBAN HEAT ISLAND;

REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE PROPERTIES; THERMAL POLLUTION;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84879998587     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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