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Durgapur Municipal Corporation is the considerable urban agglomeration centre of West Bengal in India. Rapid urbanization of the Durgapur city has an impact on urban landscape and accelerates the high rise of surface temperature throughout the years. This study attempts to evaluates the trend of surface temperature of DMC over the periods by scrutinize the changing scenario of vegetation cover and built up areas with the help of NDVI, NDBI and other indices. LANDSAT 4–5 TM & LANDSAT 8 OLI/TIRS data have been used in this study to calculate the relevant indices. Maps and diagrams are made by using GIS Software and excel software. By analyzing all relevant data, maps and diagrams, it is clearly observed that due to dynamic urbanization, growing industrialization and cutting of trees rigorously the amount of dense vegetation cover has decreased almost 2.34 percentages of its total area. And the built up area has been increased by 1.37 percentages in the core industrial region, but in peripheral zone the increasing trend is not so high. As a result, the industrial area being a heat absorber has a maximum surface temperature of 33 °C and comparatively the fringe area has a range of 18–21 °C surface temperature. Hence, mean temperature has been increased almost 4 °C within the study period. Considering all the major environmental problems, a sustainably planned urbanization process, remotely sensed data analysis and GIS based monitoring should change the devastated face of the city and will control excessive land surface temperature of the city.
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Tah, S., Roy, S.K., Mondal, C. (2023). Assessment of Land Surface Temperature Using Landsat Images: A Case Study on Durgapur Municipal Corporation, West Bengal, India. In: Chatterjee, U., Antipova, A., Ghosh, S., Majumdar, S., Setiawati, M.D. (eds) Urban Environment and Smart Cities in Asian Countries. Human Dynamics in Smart Cities. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25914-2_9
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