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Analysis of the Land Surface Temperature by the Anthropogenic Heat in the Urban Area of Seoul: An Example in Application of Satellite Images  

Bhang, Kon-Joon (Environmental Science and Engineering, Ewha Womans University)
Park, Seok-Soon (Environmental Science and Engineering, Ewha Womans University)
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Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment / v.19, no.4, 2010 , pp. 397-407 More about this Journal
Abstract
The increase of the solar reradiation from urban areas relative to suburban due to urbanization heats up the air temperature in urban areas and this is called the urban heat island (UHI) effect. This UHI effect has a positive relationship with the degree of urbanization. Through the studies on UHI using the satellite imagery, the effect of the surface heat radiation was observed by verifying the relationship between the air temperature and the land cover types (surface materials such as urban, vegetation, etc.). In this study, however, the surface temperature distribution was studied in terms of land use types for Seoul. Using land use types, the surface temperature in urban areas such as residential, industrial, and commercial areas in Yeongdeungpo, highly packed with industrial and residential buildings, was maximum $6^{\circ}C$ higher than in the bare ground, which indicated that the surface temperature reflected the pattern of the human-consumed energy on the areas and showed that one of the important causes influencing the air temperature except the surface heat reradiation by the sun is the anthropogenic heat. Also, the effect due to the restoration of the Chunggae stream on UHI was investigated. The average surface temperature for the Chunggae stream was reduced about $0.4^{\circ}C$ after restoration. Considering that each satellite image pixel includes mixture of several materials such as concrete and asphalt, the average surface temperature might be much lower locally reducing UHI near the stream.
Keywords
surface temperature distribution; land use; land cover; anthropogenic heat; remote sensing;
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