Relationships between landscape pattern metrics, vertical structure and surface urban Heat Island formation in a Colorado suburb

Urban Ecosystems

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 1229-1238

  Gage, Edward A ^a   Cooper, David J ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

FRAGSTATS; GIS; Land cover; Lidar; UHI

Indexed keywords

EID: 85018755114     PISSN: 10838155     EISSN: 15731642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11252-017-0675-0     Document Type: Article

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