Urban Thermal Environments

Urban Thermal Environment Analysis

Using Remote Sensing big data

Temperature-Vegetation Index Feature Space

Temperature-ISA% Feature Space

Flowchart of the proposed Spectral Unmixing and Thermal Mixing (SUTM) approach

(A) Actual Surface Temperature retrieved from satellite image, (B) estimated surface temperature using SUTM, (C) and (D) estimation using NDVI and ISA%, respectively

Urban Heat Island in NYC