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Urban Heat Island Intensity (JJA)

Computes per-pixel Urban Heat Island (UHI) intensity for a given area and time period using Landsat 8/9 TIRS Band 10 Land Surface Temperature (LST) and ESA CCI land cover.

Algorithm:

  1. Load Landsat TIRS B10, convert to °C.
  2. Aggregate to JJA (June-August) mean across all years in the requested temporal extent.
  3. Load ESA CCI land cover; resample to LST grid.
  4. Separate urban (CCI=190) and rural pixels.
  5. Compute local rural mean LST with a moving-window kernel.
  6. UHI = LST_urban - local_rural_mean (urban pixels only).

Preview

    Preview of UHI Intensity in London

    Preview of UHI Intensity in London

Contact

  • Adriaan Keurhorst

    Author