Mapping local climate zones for cities: A large review

F Huang, S Jiang, W Zhan, B Bechtel, Z Liu… - Remote Sensing of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The local climate zone (LCZ) system provides a universal classification mechanism for
urban and natural landscapes and plays an increasingly important role in urban climate …

Advances of local climate zone mapping and its practice using object-based image analysis

L Ma, X Zhu, C Qiu, T Blaschke, M Li - Atmosphere, 2021 - mdpi.com
In the context of climate change and urban heat islands, the concept of local climate zones
(LCZ) aims for consistent and comparable mapping of urban surface structure and cover …

GIS-based mapping of Local Climate Zone in the high-density city of Hong Kong

Y Zheng, C Ren, Y Xu, R Wang, J Ho, K Lau, E Ng - Urban climate, 2018 - Elsevier
This study aims to develop a Local Climate Zone (LCZ) classification map and establish the
associated urban morphology database as a cross-discipline information platform for climate …

The effect of spatial heterogeneity in urban morphology on surface urban heat islands

W Liao, T Hong, Y Heo - Energy and Buildings, 2021 - Elsevier
The effects of urban morphology on urban climates have been investigated mainly in terms
of average urban spatial characteristics represented by the mean values of urban spatial …

Evaluating the local climate zone classification in high-density heterogeneous urban environment using mobile measurement

Y Shi, KKL Lau, C Ren, E Ng - Urban Climate, 2018 - Elsevier
Urban heat island (UHI) has been identified as a threat to urban living quality in the context
of climate change. As awareness of the impacts of urban expansion on local climate …

LCZ scheme for assessing Urban Heat Island intensity in a complex urban area (Beirut, Lebanon)

N Badaro-Saliba, J Adjizian-Gerard, R Zaarour… - Urban Climate, 2021 - Elsevier
Thermal remote sensing has become widely used to monitor and study Urban Heat Island
(UHI) by the use of satellite Land Surface Temperature (LST) data, and the Local Climate …

Modelling the fine-scale spatiotemporal pattern of urban heat island effect using land use regression approach in a megacity

Y Shi, L Katzschner, E Ng - Science of the Total Environment, 2018 - Elsevier
Urban heat island (UHI) effect significantly raises the health burden and building energy
consumption in the high-density urban environment of Hong Kong. A better understanding of …

Mapping and analyzing the local climate zones in China's 32 major cities using Landsat imagery based on a novel convolutional neural network

X Huang, A Liu, J Li - Geo-spatial Information Science, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The Local Climate Zone (LCZ) scheme provides researchers with a standard
method to monitor the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect and conduct temperature studies. How …

Downscaling mapping method for local climate zones from the perspective of deep learning

W Yu, J Yang, F Wu, B He, H Yu, J Ren, X Xiao, JC Xia - Urban Climate, 2023 - Elsevier
Increased attention has been paid to refining Local Climate Zone (LCZ) maps. However, the
mapping process is difficult because of image resolution limitations and the lack of detailed …

Impacts of two-dimensional and three-dimensional urban morphology on urban thermal environments in high-density cities: A case study of Hong Kong

Y Xu, J Yang, Y Zheng, W Li - Building and Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
Urban morphology has a major effect on urban thermal environments, particularly in high-
density cities, which are prone to urban environmental problems such as urban heat islands …