Measuring the spatial arrangement of urban vegetation and its impacts on seasonal surface temperatures

Progress in Physical Geography

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 199-219

  Fan, Chao ^a   Myint, Soe W ^a   Zheng, Baojuan ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

remote sensing; scale; Spatial arrangement; spatial autocorrelation; vegetation

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; URBAN ECOSYSTEM; URBAN FORESTRY; VEGETATION COVER;

ARIZONA; PHOENIX; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84926339836     PISSN: 03091333     EISSN: 14770296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0309133314567583     Document Type: Article

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