Urban Heat Island Cool Roofs Remote Sensing

The objective of this research is to review the state of knowledge and current research to quantify surface urban heat islands suhi and surface urban cool islands suci.

Urban heat island cool roofs remote sensing.

Urban heat island uhi is found more pronounced as a prominent urban environmental concern in developing cities. Evaluating chicago s urban heat island policy with remote sensing chris mackey yale university ron smith yale university and xuhui lee yale university since the great chicago heat wave of 1995 the city government has enacted a large number of policies under the pretense that it is combating its urban heat island. Albedo increases from 1995 to 2008 are strongly correlated to temperature 0 33. Chicago s albedo increased by 0 016 from 1995 to 2008 while ndvi increased by 0 007.

Albedo increases were more effective at. The variation between land surface temperature lst within a city and its surrounding area is a result of variations in surface cover thermal capacity and three dimensional geometry. Remote sensing of the urban heat island effect across biomes in the continental usa marc imhoff nasa earth resource technology et al we find that ecological context significantly influences the amplitude of summer daytime uhi urban rural temperature difference the largest 8 c average observed for cities built in biomes dominated by temperate broadleaf and mixed forest. Highlights chicago increased its albedo and ndvi from 1995 to 2008 to combat its urban heat island.

To study the uhi effect in the indian context the nagpur urban area has been explored in this paper using landsat 7 etm satellite images through remote sensing and gis techniques. One of the classic topics of thermal infrared remote sensing for urban climate studies is the analysis of the urban heat island uhi effect known since the publication of luke howard s the climate of london published in 1820. Using ground based and satellite remote sensing data we present a method to quantify the spatial pattern and diurnal and seasonal variations in canopy layer heat islands clhis in china s 32 major cities during 2009 and investigate their relationships with built up intensity bi nighttime lights vegetation activity surface albedo and surface urban heat island intensity suhii.