Identifying Urban Heat Island Effects due to Urban Land Use Change

  • Shin Dong-hoon (Graduate Student, Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Sungkyunkwan Univ.) ;
  • Lee Kyoo-seock (Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Sungkyunkwan Univ.)
  • Published : 2004.10.01

Abstract

The land use has changed rapidly since 1960s in accordance with urbanization in Seoul Metropolitan Region. As a result, the urban microclimate has undergone changes as well. This study aims to recognize trend of the urban heat island change which is caused by land use change during urbanization in large city. Thermal data of Landsat TM images in 1987 and 1999 were for land surface temperature change detection in the study.

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