Effects of Two Urban Development Strategies on Changes in the Land Surface Temperature: Infill versus Suburban New Town Development

Trees and vegetation play a vital role to mitigate urban heat island (UHI) effects. Land use, vegetation growth detection and land surface temperature (LST) maps of two different dates are generated from Landsat 5 TM (1991 and 2009) in the city of Shah Alam. The conversion of natural green areas into residential and commercial development significantly increases the LST. The result reveals that mature trees in urban green space help to mitigate the effects of UHI as well as to sustain the urban development. Keywords: trees; land surface temperature (LST); urban; development. eISSN 2514-751X © 2018. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open-access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/aje-bs.v3i10.327

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Effects of Urban Development and Environmental Characteristics on Land Surface Temperature

Korea Real Estate Policy Association ◽

10.54091/krepa.2021.22.1.7 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 22 (1) ◽

pp. 112-129

Author(s):

Su-In Jin ◽

Young-Eun Gong ◽

Eun Jung Kim

Keyword(s):

Urban Development ◽

Surface Temperature ◽

Land Surface Temperature ◽

Land Surface ◽

Environmental Characteristics

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Impact of Urban Development and Vegetation on Land Surface Temperature of Dhaka City

Lecture Notes in Computer Science - Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2013 ◽

10.1007/978-3-642-39646-5_26 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 351-367

Author(s):

Debasish Roy Raja ◽

Meher Nigar Neema

Keyword(s):

Urban Development ◽

Surface Temperature ◽

Land Surface Temperature ◽

Land Surface ◽

Dhaka City

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Spatial Hotspot Analysis of Bucharest’s Urban Heat Island (UHI) Using Modis Data

Annals of Valahia University of Targoviste Geographical Series ◽

10.2478/avutgs-2018-0002 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 18 (1) ◽

pp. 14-22 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Georgiana Grigoraș ◽

Bogdan Urițescu

Keyword(s):

Surface Temperature ◽

Air Temperature ◽

Land Surface Temperature ◽

Hot Spots ◽

Land Surface ◽

Hot Spot ◽

Monitoring Network ◽

Residential Areas ◽

Hotspot Analysis ◽

The City

Abstract The aim of the study is to find the relationship between the land surface temperature and air temperature and to determine the hot spots in the urban area of Bucharest, the capital of Romania. The analysis was based on images from both moderate-resolution imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS), located on both Terra and Aqua platforms, as well as on data recorded by the four automatic weather stations existing in the endowment of The National Air Quality Monitoring Network, from the summer of 2017. Correlation coefficients between land surface temperature and air temperature were higher at night (0.8-0.87) and slightly lower during the day (0.71-0.77). After the validation of satellite data with in-situ temperature measurements, the hot spots in the metropolitan area of Bucharest were identified using Getis-Ord spatial statistics analysis. It has been achieved that the “very hot” areas are grouped in the center of the city and along the main traffic streets and dense residential areas. During the day the "very hot spots” represent 33.2% of the city's surface, and during the night 31.6%. The area where the mentioned spots persist, falls into the "very hot spot" category both day and night, it represents 27.1% of the city’s surface and it is mainly represented by the city center.

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