Spatio-temporal modeling of the urban heat island in the Phoenix metropolitan area: Land use change implications

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Wang, Chuyuan ^a   Myint, Soe W ^a   Wang, Zhihua ^b   Song, Jiyun ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Arizona State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Land surface temperature; Land use land cover change; Spatio temporal pattern; Urban heat island; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; HEAT FLUX; HOUSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LAND USE; LANDFORMS; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE PROPERTIES; THERMAL POLLUTION; VEGETATION;

LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; LAND USE LAND COVER CHANGE; SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERNS; URBAN HEAT ISLAND; URBANIZATION;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84962508872     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8030185     Document Type: Article

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