Mapping local climate zones for cities: A large review

F Huang, S Jiang, W Zhan, B Bechtel, Z Liu… - Remote Sensing of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The local climate zone (LCZ) system provides a universal classification mechanism for
urban and natural landscapes and plays an increasingly important role in urban climate …

Mapping local climate zones and their applications in European urban environments: A systematic literature review and future development trends

M Lehnert, S Savić, D Milošević, J Dunjić… - … International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
In the light of climate change and burgeoning urbanization, heat loads in urban areas have
emerged as serious issues, affecting the well-being of the population and the environment …

Exploring the relationship between urban form, land surface temperature and vegetation indices in a subtropical megacity

LS Ferreira, DHS Duarte - Urban Climate, 2019 - Elsevier
Understanding the influence of different urban forms in the local microclimate can inform
architects and urban planners towards a climate-sensitive design approach. Land surface …

[HTML][HTML] Local climate zone-based urban land cover classification from multi-seasonal Sentinel-2 images with a recurrent residual network

C Qiu, L Mou, M Schmitt, XX Zhu - ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and …, 2019 - Elsevier
The local climate zone (LCZ) scheme was originally proposed to provide an interdisciplinary
taxonomy for urban heat island (UHI) studies. In recent years, the scheme has also become …

So2Sat LCZ42: A benchmark data set for the classification of global local climate zones [Software and Data Sets]

XX Zhu, J Hu, C Qiu, Y Shi, J Kang… - … and Remote Sensing …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Gaining access to labeled reference data is one of the great challenges in supervised
machine-learning endeavors. This is especially true for an automated analysis of remote …

[PDF][PDF] Intra and inter local climate zone variability of air temperature as observed by crowdsourced citizen weather stations in Berlin, Germany

D Fenner, F Meier, B Bechtel, M Otto… - Meteorologische …, 2017 - pure.mpg.de
A one-year data set for the year 2015 of near-surface air temperature (T), crowdsourced from
'Netatmo'citizen weather stations (CWS) in Berlin, Germany, and surroundings was …

LCZ scheme for assessing Urban Heat Island intensity in a complex urban area (Beirut, Lebanon)

N Badaro-Saliba, J Adjizian-Gerard, R Zaarour… - Urban Climate, 2021 - Elsevier
Thermal remote sensing has become widely used to monitor and study Urban Heat Island
(UHI) by the use of satellite Land Surface Temperature (LST) data, and the Local Climate …

Land surface temperature and human thermal comfort responses to land use dynamics in Chittagong city of Bangladesh

HM Imran, A Hossain, MI Shammas… - … , Natural Hazards and …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Intense urbanization alters the microclimate and ecology of cities by converting naturally
vegetated and permeable surfaces into impervious built-up surfaces. These artificial …

Multilevel feature fusion-based CNN for local climate zone classification from sentinel-2 images: Benchmark results on the So2Sat LCZ42 dataset

C Qiu, X Tong, M Schmitt, B Bechtel… - IEEE Journal of …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As a unique classification scheme for urban forms and functions, the local climate zone
(LCZ) system provides essential general information for any studies related to urban …

Mapping and analyzing the local climate zones in China's 32 major cities using Landsat imagery based on a novel convolutional neural network

X Huang, A Liu, J Li - Geo-spatial Information Science, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The Local Climate Zone (LCZ) scheme provides researchers with a standard
method to monitor the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect and conduct temperature studies. How …