Estimation of the relationship between urban park characteristics and park cool island intensity by remote sensing data and field measurement

Forests

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 868-886

  Ren, Zhibin ^a,b   He, Xingyuan ^a   Zheng, Haifeng ^a   Zhang, Dan ^a,b   Yu, Xingyang ^a,b   Shen, Guoqiang ^a   Guo, Ruichao ^a  

^a NORTHEAST INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND AGRICULTURAL ECOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Park cool island (PCI); SPOT image; TM image; Urban heat island (UHI); Urban park

Indexed keywords

PARK COOL ISLANDS; SPOT IMAGE; TM IMAGE; URBAN HEAT ISLAND; URBAN PARKS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

FORESTRY;

ESTIMATION METHOD; FIELD SURVEY; FOREST COVER; HEAT ISLAND; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; MEASUREMENT METHOD; OPTIMIZATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPOT; THEMATIC MAPPING; URBAN AREA; URBAN FORESTRY;

COOLING; FORESTRY; SATELLITES; TEMPERATURE;

CHANGCHUN; CHINA; JILIN;

EID: 84888777539     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/f4040868     Document Type: Article

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