Urban expansion is a dynamic and complex phenomenon, often involving adverse changes
in land use and land cover (LULC). This paper uses satellite imagery from Landsat-5 TM …

Green infrastructure (GI) is increasingly addressed in urban planning and research to
enhance urban sustainability and resilience through the provisioning of ecosystem services …

The present study is aimed at investigating the spatio‐temporal structure of land surface
temperature (LST) and its interrelationship with physical and biophysical land surface …

Research about urban local climate and urban heat island often relies on land surface
temperature (LST) data to characterize the distribution of temperature near the surface …

Urban landscape has important effects on urban climate, and the local climate zone (LCZ)
framework has been widely applied in related studies. However, few studies have compared …

Surface temperature influences human health directly and alters the biodiversity and
productivity of the environment. While previous research has identified that the composition …

The natural diversity of Georgia is outstanding in the world. This is particularly true with the
subtropical and moderate belts of the country presenting over seventy natural landscapes …

Under the context of climate change, the urban heat island (UHI) is a challenging problem in
Philadelphia as the number of days with extreme heat every year keeps increasing. Taking …