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http://dx.doi.org/10.17820/eri.2016.3.4.315

Effect of Land Use on Urban Thermal Environments in Incheon, Korea  

Kong, Hak-Yang (National Institute of Environmental Research)
Kim, Seog Hyun (Clemson University)
Cho, Hyungjin (ECOnGEO)
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Ecology and Resilient Infrastructure / v.3, no.4, 2016 , pp. 315-321 More about this Journal
Abstract
To identify the relationship between land use and thermal environment in an urban area, the air temperature was measured at different places of land use, and the changes of land use and air temperature were traced for 40 years in Incheon City. The relationship between land use and temperature was also investigated using satellite image data. The results of temperature measurements on a forest, a cropland (rice paddy), a bareland (school ground), and an urban area (asphalt road) from 19 to 21 August 2014 showed that air temperature was the highest on a pavement road. The temperature increased by about $1.4^{\circ}C$ ($0.035^{\circ}C/year$) for 40 years from 1975 to 2014 in Incheon. The changes in land use patterns of Incheon for the past 40 years showed that urban dry land, bareland and grassland have increased and cultivated land, wetland and forest land have decreased gradually. The land surface temperature (LST) was correlated with the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) and normalized difference built-up index (NDBI) extracted from Landsat satellite image. The land surface temperature was lower at higher NDVI, and higher at higher NDBI. Therefore, it is important to conserve and restore the land use of greenery, wetlands, and agricultural land in order to mitigate the heat island effect and improve the thermal environment in an urban area.
Keywords
Heat island; Land surface temperature; Remote Sensing; Urban environment;
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