The urban heat island (UHI) effect is intensifying with increasing urbanization. As an
important representation of the UHI effect and the urban thermal environment, it is critical to …

Earth system models and many other applications require biogeophysical variables, and
remote sensing is the only means by which to estimate them at the appropriate spatial and …

The importance of land surface temperature (LST) retrieved from high to medium spatial
resolution remote sensing data for many environmental studies, particularly the applications …

Urbanization is taking place at an unprecedented rate around the world, particularly in
China in the past few decades. One of the key impacts of rapid urbanization on the …

This paper provides a summary of the current equations and rescaling factors for converting
calibrated Digital Numbers (DNs) to absolute units of at-sensor spectral radiance, Top-Of …

Thermal sensors onboard Landsat satellites have been underutilized due to the lack of
consistent and accurate methodologies for retrieving the land surface temperature (LST) at …

Remote sensing has proven a useful way of evaluating long-term trends in vegetation
“greenness” through the use of vegetation indices like Normalized Differences Vegetation …

Open Source GIS: A GRASS GIS Approach was written for experienced GIS users, who want
to learn GRASS, as well as for the Open Source software users who are GIS newcomers …

An atmospheric correction tool has been developed for public web site access for the
Landsat-5 and Landsat-7 thermal band. The Atmospheric Correction Parameter Calculator …

This study compared different measures of urban heat island (UHI) intensity, which were
calculated using both air temperature (T air) at a height of 1.5 m and Landsat land surface …