Remote sensing based analysis of urban heat islands with vegetation cover in Colombo city, Sri Lanka using Landsat-7 ETM+ data

Urban Climate

Volumn 5, Issue , 2013, Pages 19-35

  Senanayake, I P ^a   Welivitiya, W D D P ^a   Nadeeka, P M ^a  

^a Arthur C Clarke Institute for Modern Technologies ^*  (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Albedo; Emissivity; Land surface temperature (LST); NDVI; Thematic mapping; Urban heat islands (UHI)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885324631     PISSN: 22120955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.uclim.2013.07.004     Document Type: Article

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