Relationships between land cover and the surface urban heat island: Seasonal variability and effects of spatial and thematic resolution of land cover data on predicting land surface temperatures

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 153-167

  Zhou, Weiqi ^a   Qian, Yuguo ^a   Li, Xiaoma ^a   Li, Weifeng ^a   Han, Lijian ^a  

^a RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Impervious surface; Land use land cover; NDVI; NLCD; Spatial and thematic resolution; Tree canopy; Urban landscape

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; HEAT ISLAND; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; NDVI; RESOLUTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84893404415     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-013-9950-5     Document Type: Article

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