Mitigating surface urban heat island by a tree protection policy: A case study of The Woodland, Texas, USA

Urban Forestry and Urban Greening

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 474-480

  Sung, Chan Yong ^a  

^a Keimyung University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Land surface temperature; Object based image segmentation; Support vector machine; The Woodlands Township; Thermal remote sensing

Indexed keywords

HEAT ISLAND; LAND SURFACE; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; URBAN AREA; URBAN POLICY; VECTOR;

TEXAS; THE WOODLANDS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84888033612     PISSN: 16188667     EISSN: 16108167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ufug.2013.05.009     Document Type: Article

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