Map** 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 …

Map** local climate zones and its applications at the global scale: A systematic review of the last decade of progress and trend

R Wang, M Wang, C Ren, G Chen, G Mills, J Ching - Urban Climate, 2024 - Elsevier
The concept of local climate zone (LCZ) was proposed in 2012 to meet the needs of
refinement and standardization of urban climate research. As an important contribution of …

Optimal allocation of local climate zones based on heat vulnerability perspective

R Zhang, J Yang, X Ma, X ** using an explicable sub-pixel map** network based on learnable spatial correlation
D He, Q Shi, J Xue, PM Atkinson, X Liu - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Sub-pixel map** is the prevailing approach for dealing with the mixed pixel effect in urban
land use/land cover classification, by reconstructing the sub-pixel-scale distribution inside …

3D-GloBFP: The first global three-dimensional building footprint dataset

Y Che, X Li, X Liu, Y Wang, W Liao… - Earth System …, 2024 - essd.copernicus.org
Understanding urban vertical structures, particularly building heights, is essential for
examining the intricate interaction between humans and their environment. Such datasets …

Land surface and air temperature dynamics: The role of urban form and seasonality

M Naserikia, MA Hart, N Nazarian, B Bechtel… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Due to the scarcity of air temperature (T a) observations, urban heat studies often rely on
satellite-derived Land Surface Temperature (LST) to characterise the near-surface thermal …

Global distinct variations of surface urban heat islands in inter-and intra-cities revealed by local climate zones and seamless daily land surface temperature data

B Yuan, X Li, L Zhou, T Bai, T Hu, J Huang, D Liu… - ISPRS Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The continuous dynamic of surface urban heat island (SUHI) effect is highly needed in urban
climate studies. However, temporal variations of SUHI intensity (SUHII) have been …

Which street is hotter? Street morphology may hold clues-thermal environment map** based on street view imagery

Y Hu, F Qian, H Yan, A Middel, R Wu, M Zhu… - Building and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Understanding the heat distribution in street canyons is vital for effective urban planning.
The complex spatiotemporal patterns of urban heat are significantly influenced by urban …

Large disagreements in estimates of urban land across scales and their implications

TC Chakraborty, ZS Venter, M Demuzere… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Improvements in high-resolution satellite remote sensing and computational advancements
have sped up the development of global datasets that delineate urban land, crucial for …