Urban Green Space Growth Impact on Surface Temperature Distribution

There is no author summary for this article yet. Authors can add summaries to their articles on ScienceOpen to make them more accessible to a non-specialist audience.

Abstract

Trees and vegetation play a vital role to mitigate urban heat island (UHI) effects. Land use, vegetation growth detection and land surface temperature (LST) maps of two different dates are generated from Landsat 5 TM (1991 and 2009) in the city of Shah Alam. The conversion of natural green areas into residential and commercial development significantly increases the LST. The result reveals that mature trees in urban green space help to mitigate the effects of UHI as well as to sustain the urban development.

Related collections

Author and article information

Journal

Title: Asian Journal of Environment-Behaviour Studies

Abbreviated Title: ajE-Bs

Publisher: e-IPH Ltd.

ISSN (Electronic): 2514-751X

Publication date Created: August 23 2018

Publication date (Electronic): August 24 2018

Volume: 3

Issue: 10

Page: 198

Article

DOI: 10.21834/aje-bs.v3i10.327

SO-VID: 47023936-36e3-4df7-ba6c-0686fbc45664

License:

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/