Analysis of the Urban Heat Island Effect in Shijiazhuang, China Using Satellite and Airborne Data

Analysis of the Urban Heat Island Effect in Shijiazhuang, China Using Satellite and Airborne Data
– Kai Liu, Hongbo Su, Lifu Zhang, Hang Yang, Renhua Zhang and Xueke Li
Abstract: The urban heat island (UHI) effect resulting from rapid urbanization generally has a negative impact on urban residents. Shijiazhuang, the capital of Hebei Province in China, was selected to assess surface thermal patterns and its correlation with Land Cover Types (LCTs). This study was conducted using Landsat TM images on the mesoscale level and airborne hyperspectral thermal images on the microscale level.

Keywords: urban heat island (UHI); land cover types (LCTs); impervious surface area (ISA); thermal airborne spectrographic imager (TASI)
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