Study of the urban heat island (UHI) using remote sensing data/techniques: A systematic review

CR Almeida, AC Teodoro, A Gonçalves - Environments, 2021 - mdpi.com
Urban Heat Islands (UHI) consist of the occurrence of higher temperatures in urbanized
areas when compared to rural areas. During the warmer seasons, this effect can lead to …

Planning, designing, and managing green roofs and green walls for public health–an ecosystem services approach

Å Ode Sang, P Thorpert, AM Fransson - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Installing green roofs and green walls in urban areas is suggested to supply multiple
ecosystem services of benefit to human health and well-being. In a three-step literature …

Quantifying 3D building form effects on urban land surface temperature and modeling seasonal correlation patterns

H Li, Y Li, T Wang, Z Wang, M Gao, H Shen - Building and Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Multiple factors regulate urban land surface temperature (LST), including land cover,
climate, and urban form, among which urban form is now receiving more and more attention …

Generating gapless land surface temperature with a high spatio-temporal resolution by fusing multi-source satellite-observed and model-simulated data

J Ma, H Shen, P Wu, J Wu, M Gao, C Meng - Remote Sensing of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Land surface temperature (LST) is a key parameter when monitoring land surface
processes. However, cloud contamination and the tradeoff between the spatial and temporal …

Modeling the urban heat island mitigation effect of cool coatings in realistic urban morphology

N Liu, L Morawska - Journal of cleaner production, 2020 - Elsevier
There are currently more than 400 cities that are subject to the urban heat island (UHI) effect,
whose summer temperature can be over 15° C above the human thermal comfort zone. As …

A simulation-based assessment of technologies to reduce heat emissions from buildings

M Ferrando, T Hong, F Causone - Building and Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Heat emissions from buildings are part of anthropogenic heat leading to urban overheating.
This paper aims to assess how technologies (ie, energy conservation measures-ECMs) …

Evaluating the cooling performance of green roofs under extreme heat conditions

Y Feng, J Wang, W Zhou, X Li, X Yu - Frontiers in Environmental …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The local rise in urban temperature is increasingly exacerbated due to the combined effect
of urban heat islands and global climate change. Numerous studies have shown that green …

Institutional heat wave analysis by building energy modeling fleet and meter data

DL Villa - Energy and Buildings, 2021 - Elsevier
Heat waves increase electric demand from buildings which can cause power outages.
Modeling can help planners quantify the risk of such events. This study shows how Building …

Simulating the response of the surface urban heat environment to land use and land cover changes: A case study of Wuhan, China

M Gao, Z Li, Z Tan, Q Liu, H Shen - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
With the rapid process of urbanization, the urban heat island (UHI), the phenomenon where
urban regions become hotter than their surroundings, is increasingly aggravated. The UHI is …

Developing an annual building volume dataset at 1-km resolution from 2001 to 2019 in China

W Yan, J Wu, C Zhang, X Chen, J Ren… - … Journal of Digital …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Urban vertical features are crucial for understanding urban morphology. However, long-term
information on three-dimensional buildings, which are important fundamental data for …