Calculating cooling extents of green parks using remote sensing: Method and test

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 134, Issue , 2015, Pages 66-75

  Lin, Wenqi ^a   Yu, Ting ^b   Chang, Xiangqi ^a   Wu, Weijia ^a   Zhang, Yue ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Beijing Tsinghua Urban Planning and Design Institute   (China)

Author keywords

Calculation method; Cooling extents; Green parks; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COOLING; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

COOLING EFFECTS; LANDSAT TM; ON-SITE OBSERVATIONS; URBAN HEAT ISLAND EFFECTS;

REMOTE SENSING;

CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; COOLING; GREENSPACE; HEAT ISLAND; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LANDSAT; REMOTE SENSING; TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA;

EID: 84908691436     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2014.10.012     Document Type: Article

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