The surface urban heat island (SUHI), which represents the difference of land surface
temperature (LST) in urban relativity to neighboring non-urban surfaces, is usually …

Scientific contributions from remote sensing over the last fifty years have significantly
advanced our understanding of urban areas. Key contributions of urban remote sensing …

Urban environments, regarded as “harbingers” of future global change, may exert positive or
negative impacts on urban vegetation growth. Because of limited ground-based …

Abstract Knowledge about the impacts of urban heat islands (UHI) and associated thermal
gradients on vegetation seasonality (ie phenology) is vital for understanding spatial patterns …

Urban heat island (UHI) is one major anthropogenic modification to the Earth system that
transcends its physical boundary. Using MODIS data from 2003 to 2012, we showed that the …

There are many studies focusing on spatial variations of surface urban heat islands (SUHIs)
in literature. In this study, MODIS land surface temperature (LST) data and China's Land …

Plants are finely tuned to the seasonality of their environment, and shifts in the timing of plant
activity (ie phenology) provide some of the most compelling evidence that species and …

Abstract In this study, Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer land cover, land
surface temperature (LST), and enhanced vegetation index (EVI) data were used to …

Although cities, towns and settlements cover only a tiny fraction (< 1%) of the world's surface,
urban areas are the nexus of human activity with more than 50% of the population and 70 …

Urban greening can enhance quality of life by generating ecosystem services and has been
proposed as a way of mitigating adverse consequences of global warming for human health …