Characterizing spatial and temporal trends of surface urban heat island effect in an urban main built-up area: A 12-year case study in Beijing, China

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 204, Issue , 2018, Pages 826-837

  Meng, Qingyan ^a,c   Zhang, Linlin ^a,b,c   Sun, Zhenhui ^a,b,c   Meng, Fei ^d   Wang, Liang ^a,b,c   Sun, Yunxiao ^a,b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c Key Laboratory of the Earth Observation of Hainan Province   (China)

^d SHANDONG JIANZHU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Impervious surface distribution density; Remote sensing; Urban heat island intensity level; Urban main built up area

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; REMOTE SENSING; URBAN GROWTH;

BUILT-UP AREAS; CLASSIFICATION METHODS; IMPERVIOUS SURFACE; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL TRENDS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL CHANGES; SURFACE URBAN HEAT ISLANDS; SUSTAINABLE URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN HEAT ISLAND INTENSITIES;

LANDFORMS;

HEAT ISLAND; LAND COVER; LANDSAT; MODIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TREND ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA; URBAN DEVELOPMENT;

BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA;

EID: 85030466309     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2017.09.019     Document Type: Article

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