Understanding policy and technology responses in mitigating urban heat islands: A literature review and directions for future research

K Degirmenci, KC Desouza, W Fieuw… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Policy and technology responses to increased temperatures in urban heat islands (UHIs)
are discussed in a variety of research; however, their interaction is overlooked and …

[HTML][HTML] Synergistic control of urban heat island and urban pollution island effects using green infrastructure

Q Wu, Y Huang, P Irga, P Kumar, W Li, W Wei… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Urban heat island (UHI) and urban pollution island (UPI) effects are two major challenges
that affect the liveability and sustainability of cities under the circumstance of climate change …

Understanding the cooling capacity and its potential drivers in urban forests at the single tree and cluster scales

C Wang, Z Ren, X Chang, G Wang, X Hong… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Urban forests can mitigate the urban heat island effect by serving as cooling islands.
However, urban forest cooling potentials and their influencing factors at the single tree and …

Quantifying the impact of urban trees on land surface temperature in global cities

T He, Y Hu, A Guo, Y Chen, J Yang, M Li… - ISPRS Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Urban trees are not only a core component of natural infrastructure but also an effective way
to mitigate urban heat with nature-based solutions. Comprehensively revealing the cooling …

Impacts of tree and building shades on the urban heat island: Combining remote sensing, 3D digital city and spatial regression approaches

Y Park, JM Guldmann, D Liu - Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 2021 - Elsevier
The continued increase in average and extreme temperatures around the globe is expected
to strike urban communities more harshly because of the urban heat island (UHI). Devising …

Urban green space and albedo impacts on surface temperature across seven United States cities

IA Smith, MP Fabian, LR Hutyra - Science of The Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Extreme heat represents a growing threat to public health, especially across the densely
populated, developed landscape of cities. Climate adaptation strategies that aim to manage …

The auto arborist dataset: a large-scale benchmark for multiview urban forest monitoring under domain shift

S Beery, G Wu, T Edwards, F Pavetic… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Generalization to novel domains is a fundamental challenge for computer vision. Near-
perfect accuracy on benchmarks is common, but these models do not work as expected …

Quantifying the spatial pattern of urban heat islands and the associated cooling effect of blue–green landscapes using multisource remote sensing data

X Xue, T He, L Xu, C Tong, Y Ye, H Liu, D Xu… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Surface urban heat islands (SUHIs) are a global concern. Although their spatial pattern and
the cooling effect of blue-green landscapes have been documented, exploring more …

Quantifying the main and interactive effects of the dominant factors on the diurnal cycles of land surface temperature in typical urban functional zones

J Chen, K Wang, P Du, Y Zang, P Zhang, J **a… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2024 - Elsevier
The urban heat island (UHI) effect exists both during daytime and nighttime and varies with
urban characteristics, such as 2D/3D urban morphology and socio-economics. However …

Predicting Urban Heat Island severity on the census-tract level using Bayesian networks

G Assaf, X Hu, RH Assaad - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2023 - Elsevier
Urban development and population growth have resulted in several critical impacts on the
society, environment, and economy. One of the main impacts is the increase in temperature …