Thermal remote sensing for examining the relationship between urban Land surface Temperature and land use/cover in Tabriz city, Iran

Author

Feizizadeh, Bakhtiar ; Blaschke, Thomas

Author_Institution

Centre for Remote Sensing & GIS, Univ. of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran

fYear

2012

fDate

22-27 July 2012

Firstpage

2229

Lastpage

2232

Abstract

This study investigates the relationship between Land surface Temperature (LST) and land use/cover (LUC) in Tabriz city, Iran. LST were assessed based on ASTER thermal images. Results showed that LST was highly influenced by LUC and that LST is sensitive to vegetation and moisture. A minimum value of 8.57°C was observed for reflective water bodies, while a maximum of 30.34°C was observed for industrial areas. The relationship between the LUC and LST maps was analysed. LST was found to be positively correlated with impervious surface but negatively correlated with vegetated land.

Keywords

geophysical image processing; infrared imaging; land surface temperature; land use planning; terrain mapping; vegetation mapping; ASTER thermal images; Iran; LST maps; LUC maps; Tabriz city; industrial areas; land cover; land use; moisture; reflective water bodies; thermal remote sensing; urban land surface temperature; vegetated land; vegetation; Cities and towns; Land surface; Land surface temperature; Remote sensing; Satellites; Temperature sensors; Vegetation mapping; ASTER; Land surface temperature; Tabriz city; Thermal remote sensing; land use;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2012 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Munich

ISSN

2153-6996

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1160-1

Electronic_ISBN

2153-6996

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6351056

Filename

6351056