Evaluation of satellite-derived products for the characterization of the urban thermal environment

Journal of Applied Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Keramitsoglou, Iphigenia ^a   Daglis, Ioannis A ^a   Amiridis, Vassilis ^a   Chrysoulakis, Nektarios ^b   Ceriola, Giulio ^c   Manunta, Paolo ^c   Maiheu, Bino ^d   De Ridder, Koen ^d   Lauwaet, Dirk ^d   Paganini, Marc ^e  

^a NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^c Planetek Italia   (Italy)

^d FLEMISH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH VITO   (Belgium)

^e ESA ESRIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

European cities; urban environment; Urban heat island

Indexed keywords

LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; LANDFORMS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EUROPEAN CITIES; EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY; HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL VARIATION; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; URBAN HEAT ISLAND; URBAN THERMAL ENVIRONMENT;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84884357629     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19313195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JRS.6.061704     Document Type: Article

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