Investigations of the diurnal thermal behavior of Athens, Greece, by statistical downscaling of land surface temperature images and pattern analysis

Global Urban Monitoring and Assessment: Through Earth Observation

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 249-266

  Keramitsoglou, Iphigenia ^a  

^a NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LANDFORMS;

ATHENS , GREECE; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; PATTERN ANALYSIS; RADIATION ABSORPTION; STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING; THERMAL BEHAVIORS; URBAN AND RURAL AREAS; URBAN HEAT ISLAND;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

EID: 85028169684     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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