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 …

Machine learning applications on air temperature prediction in the urban canopy layer: A critical review of 2011–2022

H Wang, J Yang, G Chen, C Ren, J Zhang - Urban Climate, 2023 - Elsevier
Air temperature within the urban canopy layer is one of the most critical variables that impact
the environmental sustainability of cities. With advantages in computational speed, machine …

Study of urban heat island effect in Hangzhou metropolitan area based on SW-TES algorithm and image dichotomous model

K Shang, L Xu, X Liu, Z Yin, Z Liu, X Li, L Yin… - Sage …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
In recent years, with economic development, urbanization has been accelerating. In the past
100 years, the global average temperature has increased by 0.5° C, and according to the …

The role of city size and urban form in the surface urban heat island

B Zhou, D Rybski, JP Kropp - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Urban climate is determined by a variety of factors, whose knowledge can help to attenuate
heat stress in the context of ongoing urbanization and climate change. We study the …

Generation of MODIS-like land surface temperatures under all-weather conditions based on a data fusion approach

D Long, L Yan, L Bai, C Zhang, X Li, H Lei… - Remote Sensing of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Land surface temperature (LST) is among the most important variables in monitoring land
surface processes. LST is often retrieved from thermal infrared remote sensing data, which …

[HTML][HTML] Global land surface temperature change (2003–2017) and its relationship with climate drivers: AIRS, MODIS, and ERA5-land based analysis

J Liu, DFT Hagan, Y Liu - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
Land surface temperature (LST) plays a critical role in the water cycle and energy balance at
global and regional scales. Large-scale LST estimates can be obtained from satellite …

Creating a seamless 1 km resolution daily land surface temperature dataset for urban and surrounding areas in the conterminous United States

X Li, Y Zhou, GR Asrar, Z Zhu - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2018 - Elsevier
High spatiotemporal land surface temperature (LST) datasets are increasingly needed in a
variety of fields such as ecology, hydrology, meteorology, epidemiology, and energy …

[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 …

An energy and mortality impact assessment of the urban heat island in the US

SA Lowe - Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 2016 - Elsevier
Increased summer energy use and increased summer heat related mortality are the two
most cited detrimental impacts of the urban heat island (UHI). An assessment of these …

Multi-temporal trajectory of the urban heat island centroid in Beijing, China based on a Gaussian volume model

J Quan, Y Chen, W Zhan, J Wang, J Voogt… - Remote Sensing of …, 2014 - Elsevier
The trajectory of the urban heat island (UHI) centroid in three dimensions indicates the
overall variation of the intensity and distribution of the UHI. This study applied the Gaussian …