Relationship between land cover and micro-climate at weather observation point in Japan

This paper is based on research of effect of land cover change to city climate, using remote sensing data. Two periods data with fifteen years interval were analyzed. Land cover classification about 600m by 600m size was analyzed at 225 weather observation points. At 145 points of the 225 points, there was no change about land cover. At 22 points, land cover tended widely to urbanize. At non-changed points, the average inclination of temperature was 0.052 degrees Celsius per year, and at urbanized points, the average inclination of temperature was 0.067 degrees Celsius per year. The relation between temperature inclination and urbanized index UI and normalized vegetation index NDVI was also analyzed. There is correlation with temperature inclination and UI and NDVI.