Spatiotemporal Variation of Surface Urban Heat Islands in Relation to Land Cover Composition and Configuration: A Multi-Scale Case Study of Xi’an, China

Remote Sensing and Social Sensing Data Reveal Scale-Dependent and System-Specific Strengths of Urban Heat Island Determinants

(2020) Xiali Luan et al.   Remote Sensing

Dominant landscape indicators and their dominant areas influencing urban thermal environment based on structural equation model

(2020) Miaomiao Xie et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Numerical assessment of the urban green space scenarios on urban heat island and thermal comfort level in Tehran Metropolis

(2020) Somayeh Arghavani et al.   JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION

Effects of building density on land surface temperature in China: Spatial patterns and determinants

(2020) Jinchao Song et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Surface anthropogenic heat islands in six megacities: An assessment based on a triple-source surface energy balance model

(2020) Mohammad Karimi Firozjaei et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

A Methodology for Comparing the Surface Urban Heat Island in Selected Urban Agglomerations Around the World from Sentinel-3 SLSTR Data

(2020) José Antonio Sobrino et al.   Remote Sensing

Modeling outdoor thermal comfort using satellite imagery: A principle component analysis-based approach

(2020) Naeim Mijani et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Night and day: The influence and relative importance of urban characteristics on remotely sensed land surface temperature

(2020) T.M. Logan et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Outdoor thermal comfort of shaded spaces in an urban park in the cold region of China

(2019) Min Xu et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Assessment of urban environmental change using multi-source remote sensing time series (2000–2016): A comparative analysis in selected megacities in Eurasia

(2019) Linlin Lu et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Land use and land cover change effect on surface temperature over Eastern India

(2019) Partha Pratim Gogoi et al.   Scientific Reports

Spatial Analysis of Surface Urban Heat Islands in Four Rapidly Growing African Cities

(2019) Matamyo Simwanda et al.   Remote Sensing

The evolution of the ecological footprint and its relationship with the urban development of megacities in Western China: The case of Xi'an

(2019) Yi Yang et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Greenspace Pattern and the Surface Urban Heat Island: A Biophysically-Based Approach to Investigating the Effects of Urban Landscape Configuration

(2019) Elizabeth Jane Jane Wesley et al.   Remote Sensing

Towards large-scale mapping of local climate zones using multitemporal Sentinel 2 data and convolutional neural networks

(2019) Johannes Rosentreter et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Monitoring and forecasting heat island intensity through multi-temporal image analysis and cellular automata-Markov chain modelling: A case of Babol city, Iran

(2018) Mohammad Karimi Firozjaei et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

The urban heat island in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in the last 30 years using remote sensing data

(2018) Leonardo de Faria Peres et al.   International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Urban heat island effect: A systematic review of spatio-temporal factors, data, methods, and mitigation measures

(2018) Kaveh Deilami et al.   International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

The influence of spatial configuration of green areas on microclimate and thermal comfort

(2018) Sahar Sodoudi et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Assessing effects of urban vegetation height on land surface temperature in the City of Tampa, Florida, USA

(2018) Qiuyan Yu et al.   International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Statistical analysis of surface urban heat island intensity variations: A case study of Babol city, Iran

(2018) Qihao Weng et al.   GIScience & Remote Sensing

Guidance on and comparison of machine learning classifiers for Landsat-based land cover and land use mapping

(2018) Hsiao-chien Shih et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

Satellite Remote Sensing of Surface Urban Heat Islands: Progress, Challenges, and Perspectives

(2018) Decheng Zhou et al.   Remote Sensing

Quantifying and simulating landscape composition and pattern impacts on land surface temperature: A decadal study of the rapidly urbanizing city of Beijing, China

(2018) Lijia Guo et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Multi-city comparison of the relationships between spatial pattern and cooling effect of urban green spaces in four major Asian cities

(2018) Mahyar Masoudi et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Monitoring surface urban heat island formation in a tropical mountain city using Landsat data (1987–2015)

(2017) Ronald C. Estoque et al.   ISPRS JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING

The urban heat island effect, its causes, and mitigation, with reference to the thermal properties of asphalt concrete

(2017) Abbas Mohajerani et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Effects of the spatial configuration of trees on urban heat mitigation: A comparative study

(2017) Weiqi Zhou et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Effects of landscape composition and pattern on land surface temperature: An urban heat island study in the megacities of Southeast Asia

(2017) Ronald C. Estoque et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Impacts of urban surface characteristics on spatiotemporal pattern of land surface temperature in Kunming of China

(2017) Xu Chen et al.   Sustainable Cities and Society

Green and cool roofs to mitigate urban heat island effects in the Chicago metropolitan area: evaluation with a regional climate model

(2016) A Sharma et al.   Environmental Research Letters

A hierarchical analysis of the relationship between urban impervious surfaces and land surface temperatures: spatial scale dependence, temporal variations, and bioclimatic modulation

(2016) Qun Ma et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Urban thermal environment dynamics and associated landscape pattern factors: A case study in the Beijing metropolitan region

(2016) Jian Peng et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Consistent land surface temperature data generation from irregularly spaced Landsat imagery

(2016) Peng Fu et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Impacts of urban biophysical composition on land surface temperature in urban heat island clusters

(2015) Guanhua Guo et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Evaluation of Three MODIS-Derived Vegetation Index Time Series for Dryland Vegetation Dynamics Monitoring

(2015) Linlin Lu et al.   Remote Sensing

MODIS-Derived Spatiotemporal Changes of Major Lake Surface Areas in Arid Xinjiang, China, 2000–2014

(2015) Qingting Li et al.   Water

The relationships between landscape compositions and land surface temperature: Quantifying their resolution sensitivity with spatial regression models

(2014) Juer Song et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Strong contributions of local background climate to urban heat islands

(2014) Lei Zhao et al.   NATURE

Surface urban heat island in China's 32 major cities: Spatial patterns and drivers

(2014) Decheng Zhou et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Good practices for estimating area and assessing accuracy of land change

(2014) Pontus Olofsson et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Assessing the effect of green cover spatial patterns on urban land surface temperature using landscape metrics approach

(2014) Ali Asgarian et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Scaling of Thermal Images at Different Spatial Resolution: The Mixed Pixel Problem

(2014) Hamlyn Jones et al.   Agronomy-Basel

Scaling Effect on the Relationship between Landscape Pattern and Land Surface Temperature

(2013) Hua Liu et al.   PHOTOGRAMMETRIC ENGINEERING AND REMOTE SENSING

Analysis of Impervious Surface and its Impact on Urban Heat Environment using the Normalized Difference Impervious Surface Index (NDISI)

(2013) Hanqiu Xu   PHOTOGRAMMETRIC ENGINEERING AND REMOTE SENSING

Accuracy assessment of NLCD 2006 land cover and impervious surface

(2013) James D. Wickham et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Local Climate Zones for Urban Temperature Studies

(2012) I. D. Stewart et al.   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

Relationship of land surface and air temperatures and its implications for quantifying urban heat island indicators—An application for the city of Leipzig (Germany)

(2012) Nina Schwarz et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Landscape configuration and urban heat island effects: assessing the relationship between landscape characteristics and land surface temperature in Phoenix, Arizona

(2012) John Patrick Connors et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Spatial pattern of greenspace affects land surface temperature: evidence from the heavily urbanized Beijing metropolitan area, China

(2012) Xiaoma Li et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

The relationship between land surface temperature and land use/land cover in Guangzhou, China

(2011) Qinqin Sun et al.   Environmental Earth Sciences

Surface Urban Heat Island Across 419 Global Big Cities

(2011) Shushi Peng et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Modeling Urban Heat Islands and Their Relationship With Impervious Surface and Vegetation Abundance by Using ASTER Images

(2011) Qihao Weng et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING

Impacts of landscape structure on surface urban heat islands: A case study of Shanghai, China

(2011) Junxiang Li et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Exploring indicators for quantifying surface urban heat islands of European cities with MODIS land surface temperatures

(2011) Nina Schwarz et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Combined Effects of Impervious Surface and Vegetation Cover on Air Temperature Variations in a Rapidly Expanding Desert City

(2010) Soe W. Myint et al.   GIScience & Remote Sensing

A systematic review and scientific critique of methodology in modern urban heat island literature

(2010) I. D. Stewart   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Urban greening to cool towns and cities: A systematic review of the empirical evidence

(2010) Diana E. Bowler et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Thermal infrared remote sensing for urban climate and environmental studies: Methods, applications, and trends

(2009) Qihao Weng   ISPRS JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING

Spatial–temporal dynamics of land surface temperature in relation to fractional vegetation cover and land use/cover in the Tabriz urban area, Iran

(2009) Reza Amiri et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Remote sensing of the urban heat island effect across biomes in the continental USA

(2009) Marc L. Imhoff et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Land Surface Emissivity Retrieval From Different VNIR and TIR Sensors

(2008) J.A. Sobrino et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING

Global Change and the Ecology of Cities

(2008) N. B. Grimm et al.   SCIENCE