Spatiotemporal Analysis of Land Use/Land Cover and Its Effects on Surface Urban Heat Island Using Landsat Data: A Case Study of Metropolitan City Tehran (1988–2018)

Spatiotemporal Analysis of Land Use/Land Cover and Its Effects on Surface Urban Heat Island Using Landsat Data: A Case Study of Metropolitan City Tehran (1988–2018)

This article summarized the spatiotemporal pattern of land use/land cover (LU/LC) and urban heat island (UHI) dynamics in the Metropolitan city of Tehran between 1988 and 2018. The study showed dynamics of each LU/LC class and their role in influencing the UHI. The impervious surface area expanded b...

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Main Authors: Iman Rousta, Md Omar Sarif, Rajan Dev Gupta, Haraldur Olafsson, Manjula Ranagalage, Yuji Murayama, Hao Zhang, Terence Darlington Mushore
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-11-01
Series:Sustainability
Subjects:
LU/LC dynamics
SUHI
LST
NDVI
NDBI
Tehran
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/10/12/4433

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