Study of the urban heat island (UHI) using remote sensing data/techniques: A systematic review

CR Almeida, AC Teodoro, A Gonçalves - Environments, 2021 - mdpi.com
Urban Heat Islands (UHI) consist of the occurrence of higher temperatures in urbanized
areas when compared to rural areas. During the warmer seasons, this effect can lead to …

Cities: The core of climate change mitigation

Z Mi, D Guan, Z Liu, J Liu, V Viguié, N Fromer… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2019 - Elsevier
Cities, the core of the global climate change mitigation and strategic low-carbon
development, are shelters to more than half of the world population and responsible for …

[HTML][HTML] Surface urban heat island intensity in five major cities of Bangladesh: Patterns, drivers and trends

A Dewan, G Kiselev, D Botje, GI Mahmud… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2021 - Elsevier
There is currently a lack of knowledge regarding the spatiotemporal variation of day and
night surface urban heat island intensity (SUHII) in the major cities of Bangladesh. These …

How do 2D/3D urban landscapes impact diurnal land surface temperature: Insights from block scale and machine learning algorithms

D Han, H An, H Cai, F Wang, X Xu, Z Qiao, K Jia… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Urban landscapes significantly affect land surface temperature (LST) and are considered
crucial factors affecting urban heat island (UHI). The impacts of urban landscapes on LST …

Understanding seasonal contributions of urban morphology to thermal environment based on boosted regression tree approach

D Han, H An, F Wang, X Xu, Z Qiao, M Wang… - Building and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Urban morphology significantly affects the urban thermal environment. Seasonal impacts of
two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) urban morphology on land surface …

Modeling the impact of 2D/3D urban indicators on the urban heat island over different seasons: A boosted regression tree approach

Y Hu, Z Dai, JM Guldmann - Journal of environmental management, 2020 - Elsevier
Understanding how complex urban factors affect the Urban Heat Island (UHI) is crucial for
assessing the impacts of urban planning and environmental management on the thermal …

Understanding the effects of 2D/3D urban morphology on land surface temperature based on local climate zones

L Zhou, B Yuan, F Hu, C Wei, X Dang, D Sun - Building and Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Summer increasingly gets hotter, which has become a common problem that threats human
settlement environment and hinders urban sustainable development. The impacts of urban …

Quantifying 3D building form effects on urban land surface temperature and modeling seasonal correlation patterns

H Li, Y Li, T Wang, Z Wang, M Gao, H Shen - Building and Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Multiple factors regulate urban land surface temperature (LST), including land cover,
climate, and urban form, among which urban form is now receiving more and more attention …

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 …

Multi-city assessments of human exposure to extreme heat during heat waves in the United States

J Hu, Y Zhou, Y Yang, G Chen, W Chen… - Remote Sensing of …, 2023 - Elsevier
There is a lack of understanding of the complex spatiotemporal patterns of heat exposure
during heat waves, and the impact of urbanization intensity and urban morphology on heat …