Satellite remote sensing of surface urban heat islands: Progress, challenges, and perspectives

D Zhou, J Xiao, S Bonafoni, C Berger, K Deilami… - Remote Sensing, 2018 - mdpi.com
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 …

Urban heat island and its regional impacts using remotely sensed thermal data—a review of recent developments and methodology

H Shi, G Xian, R Auch, K Gallo, Q Zhou - Land, 2021 - mdpi.com
Many novel research algorithms have been developed to analyze urban heat island (UHI)
and UHI regional impacts (UHIRIP) with remotely sensed thermal data tables. We present a …

Urbanization induced degradation of urban green space and its association to the land surface temperature in a medium-class city in India

T Basu, A Das - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2023 - Elsevier
A few recent studies revealed that the intensity of UHI is increasing in medium-class cities
due to the rapid degradation of natural vegetation covers. This study explores the patch …

Spatiotemporal patterns and characteristics of remotely sensed region heat islands during the rapid urbanization (1995–2015) of Southern China

Z Yu, Y Yao, G Yang, X Wang, H Vejre - Science of the Total Environment, 2019 - Elsevier
Urban agglomeration has become the most salient feature of global urbanization in recent
decades, while spatiotemporal patterns and evolution remain poorly understood in urban …

Spatiotemporal patterns of summer urban heat island in Beijing, China using an improved land surface temperature

X Liu, Y Zhou, W Yue, X Li, Y Liu, D Lu - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2020 - Elsevier
Urban heat island (UHI) is a major urban ecological environment issue, and it requires to be
comprehensively understood from the perspective of temporal changes. This study …

Driving forces of UHI changes in China's major cities from the perspective of land surface energy balance

H Hou, H Su, K Liu, X Li, S Chen, W Wang… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
As remarkable human-induced temperature anomalies on the land surface, variations of
urban heat island (UHI) and its driving factors have been investigated in numerous studies …

[HTML][HTML] Monitoring land surface temperature in Bahir Dar city and its surrounding using Landsat images

A Balew, T Korme - The Egyptian Journal of Remote Sensing and Space …, 2020 - Elsevier
Land surface temperature (LST) is the burning issue in the world since it affects climate and
environment at local, regional and global level. Mainly it resulted from urbanization and its …

[HTML][HTML] Generating daily 100 m resolution land surface temperature estimates continentally using an unbiased spatiotemporal fusion approach

Y Yu, LJ Renzullo, TR McVicar, BP Malone… - Remote Sensing of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Fine spatial resolution (ie,≤ 100 m) land surface temperature (LST) data are crucial to study
heterogeneous landscapes (eg, agricultural and urban). Some well-known spatiotemporal …

[HTML][HTML] Assessment of land use/land cover changes and their impacts on land surface temperature in Bangui (the capital of Central African Republic)

M Traore, MS Lee, A Rasul, A Balew - Environmental Challenges, 2021 - Elsevier
Extreme land-use and land-cover (LULC) as the result of rapid urbanization has been
raising land surface temperature of core city areas and its surrounding. Therefore …

Beyond intensity of urban heat island effect: A continental scale analysis on land surface temperature in major Chinese cities

T Ren, W Zhou, J Wang - Science of the Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Intensity of urban heat island (UHII) is a key indicator to quantify the magnitude of UHI effect.
Change in UHII, however, can be affected by change in urban or rural temperature, or both …