Quantifying Spatial-Temporal Pattern of Urban Heat Island in Beijing: An Improved Assessment Using Land Surface Temperature (LST) Time Series Observations from LANDSAT, MODIS, and Chinese New Satellite GaoFen-1

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 2028-2042

  Liu, Kai ^a,b   Su, Hongbo ^c   Li, Xueke ^d   Wang, Weimin ^e   Yang, Lijun ^e   Liang, Hong ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c Florida Atlantic University   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^e Shenzhen Environmental Monitoring Center   (China)

Author keywords

GF 1; LANDSAT; landscape analysis; MODIS; spatial and temporal adaptive reflectance fusion model (STARFM); surface urban heat island (SUHI)

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RESOLUTION; LANDFORMS; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TIME SERIES;

HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; IMPERVIOUS SURFACE; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; SURFACE URBAN HEAT ISLANDS; TEMPORAL DYNAMICS; URBAN THERMAL ENVIRONMENT; VEGETATION COVERAGE;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

HEAT ISLAND; LAND COVER; LAND SURFACE; LANDSAT; LANDSCAPE; MODIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; URBAN CLIMATE;

BEIJING [BEIJING (ADS)]; BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA;

EID: 84961339834     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2015.2513598     Document Type: Article

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