A comparison of urban heat islands mapped using skin temperature, air temperature, and apparent temperature (Humidex), for the greater Vancouver area

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 544, Issue , 2016, Pages 929-938

  Ho, Hung Chak ^a   Knudby, Anders ^b   Xu, Yongming ^c   Hodul, Matus ^a   Aminipouri, Mehdi ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Apparent temperature; Environmental health; Landsat; MODIS; Remote sensing; Urban heat island

Indexed keywords

DECISION TREES; LANDFORMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING;

APPARENT TEMPERATURE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; LANDSAT; MODIS; URBAN HEAT ISLAND;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEALTH MONITORING; HEAT ISLAND; MODIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; URBAN CLIMATE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; APPARENT TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; CANADA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HEAT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM FOREST; RIVER; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMAL EXPOSURE; URBAN AREA; URBAN HEAT ISLAND; BRITISH COLUMBIA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMAN; PROCEDURES; REMOTE SENSING; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; VANCOUVER [BRITISH COLUMBIA];

BRITISH COLUMBIA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; SKIN TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84954124987     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.12.021     Document Type: Article

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