Thermal and Optical Remote Sensing: Evaluating Urban Green Spaces and Urban Heat Islands in a Changing Climate

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2023
• Subjects: all-weather land surface temperature; ArborCam; bare soils; Biology, life sciences; buffer analysis; built-up; climate change; cool roofs; driving factors; Ecological science, the Biosphere; factor analysis; fractional vegetation cover; golf courses; Google Earth Engine; high-resolution airborne imagery; intensity analysis; Jinan; land surface temperate; land surface temperature; land surface temperatures; land-use efficiency; Landsat; Life sciences: general issues; local climate zone generator; local climate zones; Marrakesh; Mathematics and Science; mitigation; morphological spatial pattern analysis; multitemporal classification; neighborhood function; park cooling island; random forests; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Research and information: general; roof colour; SDG 11; spatiotemporal variations; step-by-step downscaling of LST; surface urban heat island; surface urban heat island frequency; surface urban heat island intensity; thermal environment; urban climate; urban growth; urban heat island; urban heat islands; urban spatial morphology; urban sprawl; urbanization; vegetation; vegetation change; vegetation structure; WUDAPT
• ISBN: 3036562753; 9783036562766; 3036562761; 9783036562759
• DOI: 10.3390/books978-3-0365-6276-6

This reprint focuses on the theoretical principles and practical adoption of remote sensing approaches and datasets in understanding the nexus between urbanization, natural landscapes, urban micro-climate, climate change and Urban Heat Islands. Urbanization, characterized by natural landscape transformation, influences thermodynamics, surface energy and micro- and macro climate perturbations. These changes result in environmental deterioration that in turn adversely affects bio-physical processes and quality of urban life. A major consequence of urbanization is the Urban Heat Island (UHI). It is anticipated that the increased UHIs, in concert with the increasing anthropogenic activities, will further increase the vulnerability of urban landscapes to climate-related disasters such as floods and heatwaves. Recent advances in optical and thermal remotely sensed datasets offer great potential in understanding the relationship between urban bio-physical characteristics and UHIs. Hence, this reprint provides a basis for understanding urban ecological and thermal patterns, which is critical for the management of urban physical, ecological and social processes within a remotely sensed data framework. This reprint should be of interest to both specialists and generalists interested in, among other fields, urban planning, ecological conservation, the urban micro-climate, and climate change.