Seasonal variations of the surface urban heat Island in a semi-arid city

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Haashemi, Sirous ^a   Weng, Qihao ^b,c   Darvishi, Ali ^a   Alavipanah, Seyed Kazem ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Daytime and nighttime imaging; Seasonality; Semi arid city; Surface urban cool island; Surface urban heat island; Urban biophysical variables

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BIOPHYSICS; INFRARED DETECTORS; LAND USE; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; RURAL AREAS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOLAR RADIATION; SURFACE PROPERTIES; THERMAL POLLUTION; VEGETATION;

BIO-PHYSICAL VARIABLES; FRACTIONAL VEGETATION COVER; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; SEASONALITY; SEMI ARID; SURFACE URBAN HEAT ISLANDS; THERMAL INFRARED SENSORS;

LANDFORMS;

EID: 84971597170     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8040352     Document Type: Article

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