Urban thermal micro-mapping using satellite imagery and ground-truth measurements: Kyiv city area case study

• Date: 2019
• Main Authors: Piestova, Iryna, Lubskyi, Mykola, Svideniuk, Mykhailo, Golubov, Stanislav, Laptiev, Oleksandr
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Scientific Centre for Aerospace Research of the Earth Institute of Geological Science National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine 2019
• Subjects: city thermal regime; land surface temperature; thermal radiation emissivity; time series
• Online Access: https://ujrs.org.ua/ujrs/article/view/149
• Journal Title: Ukrainian Journal of Remote Sensing of the Earth

The aim of this research is to enhance approaches existing for the assessment of cities thermal conditions under climate change impact by using multispectral satellite data for Kyiv city area. This paper describes the method and results of the Earth’s surface temperature (LST) and thermal emissivity...