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Urban heat island explored by co-relationship between land surface temperature vs multiple vegetation indices

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Abstract

Land surface temperature (LST), land use/land cover (LU/LC) and vegetation parameters are a substantial factor in worldwide climate change studies framework. This study of investigating urban heat islands based on thermal remote sensing data. Thermal infrared remote sensing proved its capability in monitoring temperature and affecting microclimate in urban areas. In the present study have relationships among the multiple vegetation indices, land use/land cover and LST using remote sensing techniques in the Saranda forest state of Jharkhand. Normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), Soil-adjusted vegetation index (SAVI), Ratio vegetation index (RVI) and Normalized difference built-up index (NDBI) are used in this study. The study work has been done on the correlation of the association among the different vegetation indices, land use/land cover, and land surface temperature. The result shows that the external temperature an impact on surfaces of self-heating (hot spots) areas. The relationship between LST and NDVI result shows the negative correlation. The NDVI proposes that the green land can deteriorate the effect on mining, urban heat island while we apparent the positive relationship between LST and NDBI. This study demonstrates that the growth of the active mining, the industrial area significantly decreases the vegetation areas, hence grow the surface temperature. This study also shows that the external temperature has an impact on surfaces of self-heating (hot spots) areas. Finally, the accuracy of proposed multiple indexes is evaluated by using DGPS field survey points over the study area. This analysis demonstrates the potential applicability of the methodology for climate modeling framework.

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Acknowledgments

The authors are thankful to SAIL and DFO of Saranda forest for their financial support and providing necessary data. The authors would like to thank Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur and Vidyasagar University for its constant support and providing wonderful platform for research.

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  1. Department of Remote Sensing and GIS, Vidyasagar University, Midnapore, India

    Narayan Kayet & Abhisek Chakrabarty

  2. Department of Mining Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India

    Khanindra Pathak

  3. School of Water Resources, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India

    Satiprasad Sahoo

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Kayet, N., Pathak, K., Chakrabarty, A. et al. Urban heat island explored by co-relationship between land surface temperature vs multiple vegetation indices. Spat. Inf. Res. 24, 515–529 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41324-016-0049-3

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