Assessing the impact of urban expansion to the state of thermal environment of peri-urban areas using indices

Urban Climate

Volumn 14, Issue , 2015, Pages 166-175

  Polydoros, Anastasios ^a   Cartalis, Constantinos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Remote sensing; Urban expansion; Urban thermal environment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948169170     PISSN: 22120955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.uclim.2015.10.004     Document Type: Article

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