Change detection of urban heat islands and some related parameters using multi-temporal Landsat images; a case study for Cairo city, Egypt

Urban Climate

Volumn 10, Issue P1, 2014, Pages 171-188

  Effat, Hala Adel ^a   Hassan, Ossman Abdel Kader ^a  

^a National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Cairo; Land surface temperature; Landsat; Multi temporal; Thermal infra red (TIR); Urban heat island (UHI)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84927939706     PISSN: 22120955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.uclim.2014.10.011     Document Type: Article

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