TY - JOUR
T1 - Remote sensing of the surface urban heat island and land architecture in Phoenix, Arizona
T2 - Combined effects of land composition and configuration and cadastral-demographic-economic factors
AU - Li, Xiaoxiao
AU - Li, WenWen
AU - Middel, A.
AU - Harlan, Sharon
AU - Brazel, A. J.
AU - Turner, Billie
N1 - Funding Information:
This project was supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. SES-0951366 , NSF DMS Grant No. 1419593 and USDA NIFA Grant No. 2015-67003-23508 ; Decision Center for a Desert City II: Urban Climate Adaptation and Gant No. BCS-1026865 , Central Arizona–Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research (CAP LTER) and undertaken through the Environmental Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics Lab (ERSG) of the CAP-LTER, the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability, and School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning. The authors thank the reviewers of earlier versions of this paper for their insights and comments, as well as input from John Rogan and Arthur Elmes.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2016/3/1
Y1 - 2016/3/1
N2 - This study seeks to determine the role of land architecture-the composition and configuration of land cover-as well as cadastral-demographic-economic factors on land surface temperature (LST) and the surface urban heat island effect of Phoenix, Arizona. It employs 1 m National Agricultural Imagery Program data of land-cover with 120 m Landsat-derived land surface temperature, decomposed to 30. m, a new measure of configuration, the normalized moment of inertia, and U.S. Census data to address the question for two randomly selected samples comprising 523 and 545 residential neighborhoods (census blocks) in the city. The results indicate that, contrary to most other studies, land configuration has a stronger influence on LST than land composition. In addition, both land configuration and architecture combined with cadastral, demographic, and economic variables, capture a significant amount of explained variance in LST. The results indicate that attention to land architecture in the development of or reshaping of neighborhoods may ameliorate the summer extremes in LST.
AB - This study seeks to determine the role of land architecture-the composition and configuration of land cover-as well as cadastral-demographic-economic factors on land surface temperature (LST) and the surface urban heat island effect of Phoenix, Arizona. It employs 1 m National Agricultural Imagery Program data of land-cover with 120 m Landsat-derived land surface temperature, decomposed to 30. m, a new measure of configuration, the normalized moment of inertia, and U.S. Census data to address the question for two randomly selected samples comprising 523 and 545 residential neighborhoods (census blocks) in the city. The results indicate that, contrary to most other studies, land configuration has a stronger influence on LST than land composition. In addition, both land configuration and architecture combined with cadastral, demographic, and economic variables, capture a significant amount of explained variance in LST. The results indicate that attention to land architecture in the development of or reshaping of neighborhoods may ameliorate the summer extremes in LST.
KW - Land architecture
KW - Land cover
KW - Land surface temperature
KW - Spatial pattern
KW - Surface urban heat island
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U2 - 10.1016/j.rse.2015.12.022
DO - 10.1016/j.rse.2015.12.022
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84951784308
SN - 0034-4257
VL - 174
SP - 233
EP - 243
JO - Remote Sensing of Environment
JF - Remote Sensing of Environment
ER -