Spectral mixture analysis of ASTER images for examining the relationship between urban thermal features and biophysical descriptors in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

D Lu, Q Weng - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2006 - Elsevier
Mapping urban biophysical and thermal conditions has attracted increasing interest.
However, the relationship between them has not been fully understood. This paper explores …

Modeling urban heat islands and their relationship with impervious surface and vegetation abundance by using ASTER images

Q Weng, U Rajasekar, X Hu - IEEE Transactions on Geoscience …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An important issue in urban thermal remote sensing is how to use pixel-based
measurements of land surface temperature (LST) to characterize and quantify the urban …

Urban surface biophysical descriptors and land surface temperature variations

Q Weng, D Lu, B Liang - Photogrammetric Engineering & …, 2006 - ingentaconnect.com
In remote sensing studies of land surface temperatures (LST), thematic land-use and land-
cover (LULC) data are frequently-employed for simple correlation analyses between LULC …

A sub-pixel analysis of urbanization effect on land surface temperature and its interplay with impervious surface and vegetation coverage in Indianapolis, United …

Q Weng, D Lu - International journal of applied earth observation and …, 2008 - Elsevier
This study developed an analytical procedure based upon a spectral unmixing model for
characterizing and quantifying urban landscape changes in Indianapolis, Indiana, the …

Assessing the effects of land use and land cover patterns on thermal conditions using landscape metrics in city of Indianapolis, United States

Q Weng, H Liu, D Lu - Urban ecosystems, 2007 - Springer
Direct applications of remote sensing thermal infrared (TIR) data in landscape ecological
research are rare due to limitations in the sensors, calibration, and difficulty in interpretation …

Examining urban heat island relations to land use and air pollution: Multiple endmember spectral mixture analysis for thermal remote sensing

B Feizizadeh, T Blaschke - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes an integration of Spectral Mixture Analysis and Endmember Remote
Sensing Indices to derive land surface temperature (LST), to identify urban heat islands …

Estimating impervious surfaces using linear spectral mixture analysis with multitemporal ASTER images

Q Weng, X Hu, H Liu - International Journal of Remote Sensing, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
Impervious surface is a key indicator of urban environmental quality and degree of
urbanization. Therefore, estimation and mapping of impervious surfaces by using remote …

Modeling urban heat islands in heterogeneous land surface and its correlation with impervious surface area by using night-time ASTER satellite data in highly …

J Mallick, A Rahman, CK Singh - Advances in Space Research, 2013 - Elsevier
The present study is an assessment and identification of urban heat island (UHI) in the
environment of one of the fastest urbanizing city of India, Delhi Metropolis, employing …

Coupling urbanization analyses for studying urban thermal environment and its interplay with biophysical parameters based on TM/ETM+ imagery

Y Ma, Y Kuang, N Huang - … Journal of Applied Earth Observation and …, 2010 - Elsevier
Studies of urbanization and urban thermal environment are now attracting wide interests
among scientists all over the world. This study investigated the influences of urbanization on …

An analysis of urban thermal characteristics and associated land cover in Tampa Bay and Las Vegas using Landsat satellite data

G Xian, M Crane - Remote Sensing of environment, 2006 - Elsevier
Remote sensing data from both Landsat 5 and Landsat 7 systems were utilized to assess
urban area thermal characteristics in Tampa Bay watershed of west-central Florida, and the …