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Spatio-temporal dynamic land cover changes and their impacts on the urban thermal environment in the Chittagong metropolitan area, Bangladesh

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The rapid urbanization and industrialization along with the expansion of cities in developing countries like Bangladesh converting vegetation and bare land into built-up area that remarkably boost up the land surface temperature (LST). This study has been conducted for correlating and monitoring the changes of landuse–landcover change (LULC) and LST of rapidly expanding Chittagong metropolitan area from 1989 to 2018 utilizing four Landsat satellite images (TM, ETM+, OLI, and TIRS). The Present study combines the techniques of remote sensing and geographic information system (GIS) to find out the spatial variation of LST and identify its relationship with LULC. Supervised classification technique has been employed in ERDAS IMAGINE 14.0 software to retrieve LULC data. The images of the study area were categorized into four different classes namely vegetation, urban structures, bared lands and water bodies. LSTs were estimated using the single thermal infrared band of Landsat TM, ETM+, and the band 10 and 11 of the TIRS sensor’s image for the split-window algorithm method. Concerning the relationship between LULC and LST, it has been found that vegetation and water bodies shows lowest LST while bared lands and urban structures indicates highest LST. LULC analysis shows a dramatic increase in urban structures (from 20.83 to 58.93%), decrease in vegetation (from 56.54 to 20.24%) and bared lands (from 16.67 to 11.90%) and a further small increase in water bodies after the 80s, because of digging new ponds. LST in the study area has been increasing as high-temperature LU types have increased and low temperature LU types have decreased. Consequently, the mean annual temperature showed 6.5 °C increase, the minimum and maximum LST increased by 9 °C and 4 °C throughout the study period. The highest maximum and lowest minimum LST has found 40 °C during the years of 2010 to 2018 and 15 °C in the year of 1989, respectively. The study will assist the decision-maker to understand the impacts of unplanned urbanization for future city planning and urban management.

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We acknowledged the USGS archives authority for providing the satellite images with free of cost. We are thankful to the Department of Geology, University of Dhaka for providing the research facilities to conduct the study. Authors are also very to the unanimous reviewers for their valuable comments to scrutinize our manuscript.

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  3. Department of Geography and Environment, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, 1000, Bangladesh

    Md. Mahin Uddin

  4. Department of Geology, Kent State University, Kent, USA

    F. M. Arifur Rahman

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Gazi, M.Y., Rahman, M.Z., Uddin, M.M. et al. Spatio-temporal dynamic land cover changes and their impacts on the urban thermal environment in the Chittagong metropolitan area, Bangladesh. GeoJournal 86, 2119–2134 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-020-10178-4

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