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Temporal change and its spatial variety on land surface temperature and land use changes in the Red River Delta, Vietnam, using MODIS time-series imagery

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Temporal changes in the land surface temperature (LST) in urbanization areas are important for studying an urban heat island (UHI) and regional climate change. This study examined the LST trends under different land use categories in the Red River Delta, Vietnam, using the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) LST product (MOD11A2) and land cover type product (MCD12Q1) for 11 years (2002–2012). Smoothened time-series MODIS LST data were reconstructed by the Harmonic Analysis of Time Series (HANTS) algorithm. The reconstructed LST (maximum and minimum temperatures) was assessed using the hourly air temperature dataset in two land-based meteorological stations provided by the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). Significant correlation was obtained between MODIS LST and the air temperature for the daytime (R 2 = 0.73, root mean square error [RMSE] = 1.66 °C) and night time (R 2 = 0.84, RMSE = 1.79 °C). Statistical analysis also showed that LST trends vary strongly depending on the land cover type. Forest, wetland, and cropland had a slight tendency to decline, whereas cropland and urban had sharper increases. In urbanized areas, these increasing trends are even more obvious. This is undeniable evidence of the negative impact of urbanization on a surface urban heat island (SUHI) and global warming.

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This work was partially supported by the Japanese Grant Aid for Human Resource Development Scholarship (JDS), Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), for financial support to the first author (Nguyen Van On) for the field survey in Hanoi, Vietnam.

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  1. Graduate School for International Development and Cooperation, Hiroshima University, 1-5-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, 739-8529, Hiroshima, Japan

    On Van Nguyen, Kensuke Kawamura, Dung Phan Trong & Zhe Gong

  2. Education and Training Center of Banten Province, Banten, Indonesia

    Endan Suwandana

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Van Nguyen, O., Kawamura, K., Trong, D.P. et al. Temporal change and its spatial variety on land surface temperature and land use changes in the Red River Delta, Vietnam, using MODIS time-series imagery. Environ Monit Assess 187, 464 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-015-4691-3

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