Urban Heat Island Cool Roofs Remote Sensing

The cooling benefits of chicago s green and cool roof initiatives have in fact.

Urban heat island cool roofs remote sensing. The objective of this research is to review the state of knowledge and current research to quantify surface urban heat islands suhi and surface urban cool islands suci. Dear colleagues one of the classic topics of thermal infrared remote sensing for urban climate studies is the analysis of the urban heat island uhi effect known since the publication of luke howard s the climate of london published in 1820. Meenal surawar rajashree kotharkar abstract. Researchers often use remote sensing an indirect measurement tech nique to estimate surface.

Using ground based and satellite remote sensing data we present a method to quantify the spatial pattern and diurnal and seasonal variations in canopy layer heat islands clhis in china s 32 major cities during 2009 and investigate their relationships with built up intensity bi nighttime lights vegetation activity surface albedo and. Remote sensing of the urban heat island effect across biomes in the continental usa marc l. Communities and epa s heat island reduction program. Wolfea lahouari bounouaa a hydrospheric and biospheric science laboratory nasa s goddard space flight center greenbelt md 20771 usa b earth resource technology inc annapolis junction md 20701 usa article info abstract.

Urban heat island impacts on energy consumption environmental quality and human health. Evaluating chicago s urban heat island policy with remote sensing chris mackey yale university ron smith yale university and xuhui lee yale university since the great chicago heat wave of 1995 the city government has enacted a large number of policies under the pretense that it is combating its urban heat island. Positvenergy provided support in preparing the trees and vegetation cool roofs and uhi activities chapters under contract po 2w 0361 satx. To study the uhi effect in the indian context the nagpur urban area has been explored in this paper using landsat 7 etm satellite images through remote sensing and gis techniques.

Epa urban heat island pilot project akbari et al 2003 green and cool roofs are excellent choices for mitigating uhi effects as rooftops account for 20 25 of land cover 25 of land cover in chicago s case. Remote sensing of the urban heat island effect across biomes in the continental usa marc imhoff nasa earth resource technology et al we find that ecological context significantly influences the amplitude of summer daytime uhi urban rural temperature difference the largest 8 c average observed for cities built in biomes dominated by. Imhoffa ping zhanga b robert e.