Urban heat evolution in a tropical area utilizing Landsat imagery

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 167, Issue , 2016, Pages 175-182

  Amanollahi, Jamil ^a   Tzanis, Chris ^b   Ramli, Mohammad Firuz ^c   Abdullah, Ahmad Makmom ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KURDISTAN   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Digital number; GIS; Land cover; Land Surface Temperature; Land use

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LAND USE; PIXELS; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TROPICS; WIND;

DIGITAL NUMBERS; HIGHEST TEMPERATURE; LAND COVER; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; LAND USE AND LAND COVER; REMOTE SENSING DATA; TEMPERATURE MAPS; URBAN HEAT ISLAND;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

CLOUD COVER; GIS; LAND COVER; LAND SURFACE; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSAT; PIXEL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

MALAYSIA;

EID: 84941313078     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2015.07.019     Document Type: Article

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