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The environmental and social consequences of predicted climate change are expected to be magnified in urban regions due to the elevated temperatures, which are due to the continuous manmade processes. A research work was carried out by utilizing remote sensing and geographic information systems to explore the interactions between land surface temperatures (LST) and normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) in an urban area and in a basin area. Increase in vegetative cover can provide microclimate formation through the process of evapotranspiration by increasing the amount of urban vegetation. This might prove to be a highly effective solution in reducing the effect of temperature toward urbanization. The results were presented based on the observations carried out using Landsat 8/Sentinel 2 satellite imageries and from the field by deriving land-use data as input and by comparing the temperature variations, normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), normalized differential build-up index (NDBI), and normalized differential water index (NDWI) derived from satellite imageries (2004–18) in an urban limit (Chennai City, India) and a subbasin (Noyyal River, India). The correlation revealed that both the spatial and temporal variation in vegetation sprawl and surface temperature affect the local climatic temperature. It has been suggested that future modeling studies should account for anthropogenic heating in the case of urban planning for better climatic control characteristics.
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Brema, J., Alsalmi, A.K., Mayilswami, C., Thinakaran, J. (2023). Effect of Urbanism on Land Surface Temperature (LST) in a River Basin and an Urban Agglomeration. In: Pande, C.B., Moharir, K.N., Singh, S.K., Pham, Q.B., Elbeltagi, A. (eds) Climate Change Impacts on Natural Resources, Ecosystems and Agricultural Systems. Springer Climate. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19059-9_13
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