Rooftop surface temperature analysis in an Urban residential environment

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 12135-12159

  Zhao, Qunshan ^a   Myint, Soe W ^a   Wentz, Elizabeth A ^a   Fan, Chao ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

GIS; LIDAR; MASTER; OLS regression analysis; Rooftop; UHI; Urban environment

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HOUSES; HOUSING; LAND USE; OPTICAL RADAR; POPULATION STATISTICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOLAR RADIATION; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TRACKING (POSITION); URBAN GROWTH; URBAN PLANNING;

LIDAR (LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING); MASTER; OPTICAL SATELLITE IMAGERY; QUICKBIRD SATELLITE IMAGERY; ROOFTOP; SPATIAL RESOLUTION IMAGERY; UHI; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84942531978     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70912135     Document Type: Article

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