A multi-scale approach to urban thermal analysis

An environmental consequence of urbanization is the urban heat island effect, a situation where urban areas are warmer than surrounding rural areas. The urban heat island phenomenon results from the replacement of natural landscapes with impervious surfaces such as concrete and asphalt and is linked to adverse economic and environmental impacts. In order to better understand the urban microclimate, a greater assessment of the overall urban thermal pattern, including an analysis of the thermal properties of individual land covers, is needed. This study examines the surface thermal pattern by means of thermal land cover response for the Salt Lake City, Utah, study area at two scales: 1) the community level, and 2) the regional or valleywide level. Airborne ATLAS (Advanced Thermal and Land Applications Sensor) data, a high spatial resolution (10-meter) dataset appropriate for an environment containing a concentration of diverse land covers, are used for both land cover and thermal analysis at the community level. The ATLAS data consist of 15 channels covering the visible, near-IR, mid-IR and thermal-IR wavelengths. At the regional level Landsat TM data are used for land cover analysis while the ATLAS channel 13 data are used for the thermal analysis.Results show that a ground-level heat island is evident at both the community and the valleywide level where there is an abundance of impervious surfaces. ATLAS data perform well in community level studies in terms of land cover and thermal exchanges, but other, more coarse-resolution data sets are more appropriate for large-area thermal studies. Thermal response per land cover is consistent at both levels, which suggests potential for comparison with more coarse spatial resolution studies.     

城市热岛效应地表通量空间分布研究

城市化进程的加快促使更多大中城市的产生以及城市面积的扩展,导致更加严重的城市热岛现象。为了更加深入理解城市热岛效应产生根源,以西安市城区为例采用美国陆地卫星遥感数据反演或估算地表温度、植被指数以及地表通量等变量,不仅采用传统的地表温度参数理解城市热岛现象,还着重分析城市建成区和郊区的地表通量空间分布格局及其与地表温度的关系。研究发现西安城市建成区与郊区之间热环境存在显著的差异,地表温度不仅与植被覆盖状况具有密切的关系,还与地表潜热通量和实际蒸散发变量存在显著的反相关关系。详细分析表明拥有众多工厂企业的西安市莲湖区热岛效应尤为显著,而位于市中心的新城区次之,具有较大面积郊区的灞桥区热岛效应并不明显。因此城市绿地不仅影响城市建成区的地表温度空间分布,还对地表通量以及实际蒸散发的空间格局产生重要的影响,在调节城市热岛效应方面具有重要的作用。
     

城市不透水面及其与城市热岛的关系研究-以泉州市区为例

利用Landsat TM卫星影像提取了泉州市1989到1996年的城市建成区不透水面,并研究了其与城市热岛之间的关系。根据Ridd(1995)提出的城市建成区不透水面与植被覆盖度有很强的负相关关系的思想,先利用归一化植被指数求出泉州市建成区的植被覆盖度,进而提取了泉州市建成区的不透水面。通过比较所提取的两个时相不透水面信息,可以看出泉州市区不透水面的面积在7年里有了明显的增加,并主要沿研究区东南部扩展。通过将所提取的不透水面信息与利用TM6波段反演的地表温度进行相关分析,可发现二者之间存在着明显的正相关关系。     

Exploring indicators for quantifying surface urban heat islands of European cities with MODIS land surface temperatures

The term urban heat island describes the phenomenon of altered temperatures in urban areas compared to their rural hinterlands. A surface urban heat island encompasses the patterns of land surface temperatures in urban areas. The classical indicator to describe a surface urban heat island is the difference between urban and rural surface temperatures. However, several other indicators for this purpose have been suggested in the literature. In this study, we compared the eleven different indicators for quantifying surface urban heat islands that were most frequently used in recent publications on remote sensing-based urban heat island assessments. The dataset used here consists of 263 European cities with monthly mean temperatures from MODIS data products for July 2002, January 2003 and July 2003. We found that (i) the indicators individually reveal diurnal and seasonal patterns but show rather low correlations over time, and (ii) for single points in time, the different indicators show only weak correlations, although they are supposed to quantify the same phenomenon. Differentiating cities according to thermal climate zones increased the relationships between the indicators. Thus, we can identify temporal aspects and indicator selection as important factors determining the estimation of urban heat islands. We conclude that research should take into account the differences and instabilities of the indicators chosen for quantifying surface urban heat islands and should use several indicators in parallel for describing the surface urban heat island of a city.     

Forward and inverse modeling of land surface energy balance using surface temperature measurements

Land surface temperature measurements have been widely used to estimate surface energy balance. However, because land surface temperature and energy balance both depend on a complex suite of factors, precise estimation of surface energy exchanges using thermal remote sensing is difficult. In recent years, a variety of methods have been developed that overcome previous limitations and show substantial promise for robust estimation of surface fluxes from remote sensing. This paper reviews recent progress in this domain and describes a two-layer energy balance model designed for use with thermal remote sensing. An important aspect of the model is that it is specifically designed to account for the complex micrometeorology and thermal properties of land surfaces possessing a range of density in vegetation. Further, the physics underlying this model are complementary to the physics of land surface thermal remote sensing. Comparisons between field measurements and modeled fluxes show good agreement, which suggests that the model describes land surface energy balance processes with good realism. More importantly, these results reinforce the conclusions of other recent studies that have demonstrated the compatibility of two-layer energy balance models with remote sensing observations and, by extension, the viability of using thermal remote sensing to model surface energy balance.     

一带一路沿海超大城市热岛时空特征遥感分析

城市热岛不仅影响城市局地及区域气候,而且对城市空气质量、能源消耗、居民健康等有显著的负面作用。利用长时序遥感数据,系统地分析各超大城市热岛的时空特征,能够为城市热岛效应减缓政策的制定提供参考,对带路城市可持续发展具有重要意义。基于2001~2017年MODIS地表温度产品和Landsat土地利用分类数据,以城市热岛强度（Surface Urban Heat Island Intensity, SUHII）作为指标,从季节和年际的角度分析一带一路沿海超大城市2001~2017年热岛效应时空格局的变化。研究结果表明：①2001~2017年期间各超大城市的核心区存在扩张趋势,高强度热岛主要分布在人口活动密集的城市核心区;②年均城市热岛强度最大的城市是卡拉奇,多年SUHII平均值为3.02 ℃,热岛强度显著上升的是金奈（0.07 ℃/a,P<0.1）;③各城市热岛强度存在季节性差异,其中夏季城市热岛强度最大的城市是伊斯坦布尔,SUHII平均值为2.88 ℃,冬季城市热岛强度最大的城市是卡拉奇,SUHII平均值为4.45 ℃。     

21世纪以来西安城乡梯度土地覆盖变化及对城市热岛影响时空特征

城市快速扩张导致城乡梯度土地覆盖发生显著的变化,引发不透水地表的增加,植被覆盖的减少,从而加剧了城市热岛强度。研究城乡梯度土地覆盖变化引起的城市热岛效应,并揭示城市热岛的时空特征及强度的变化,对城市规划建设、人居环境改善及提升城市生态系统服务功能具有重要的意义。基于Landsat系列4期影像,利用单窗算法反演西安市地表温度,计算热场变异指数得到热力场强度图并对其进行等级划分,结合土地利用/覆盖类型数据分析城乡梯度土地覆盖变化对城市热岛强度的影响。结果表明：①2000年西安市极强热岛效应区占研究区面积的10.58%,逐渐增加到2011年极强热岛效应区域的面积占比达到16.14%,而后到2015年降低为9.00%,整体上西安市城市热岛效应呈现出了先增长后降低的趋势;②2000年到2015年城乡建设用地面积增加了412.76 km2,极强热岛强度的范围随城市建成区的扩张逐年向外扩展;③无热岛效应区约70%位于耕地和林地,水域在无热岛效应中的占比也在逐年增多,从31%增加到了47%。不透水地表面积占比与地表温度有显著相关性,城乡梯度植被和水体面积的增加可以有效地缓解城市热岛强度。     

Spatiotemporal Pattern of Urban-rural Aradient Land Cover Changes and Their Impact on Urban Heat Island in Xi′an City Since the 21st Century

Rapid urban expansion had a significant impact in land use/cover change along urban-rural gradient, and the increase of impervious construction land and the reduction of vegetation cover had induced and aggravated the urban heat island effect. Studying the impact of urban-rural gradient land cover change on urban heat island effect was significant for urban planning and construction, improving the comfort of human settlements and enhancing the function of urban ecological services. The surface temperature of Xi'an city was retrieved by mono-window algorithm based on Landsat images, and the thermal field intensity map was obtained by calculating the thermal field variation index, and the gradient land cover changes in urban and rural areas were analyzed with land use data. The results showed that: ①The urban heat island effect in Xi'an showed a trend of first increasing and then decreasing from 2000 to 2015. In 2000, the extremely strong heat island effect area accounted for 10.58% of the research area, and gradually increased to 16.14% in 2011, and then decreased to 9.00% in 2015. ②From 2000 to 2015, the area of construction land increased 412.76 km² and the intensity of extremely strong heat island expanded year by year with the expansion of urban built-up areas. ③About 70% of the non-heat island effect areas were located on farmland and forest land, and the proportion of water area in the non-heat island effect was increasing year by year from 31% to 47%, which showed that the increase of vegetation and water area could effectively alleviate the urban heat island effect.     

基于MODIS 数据的南京市夏季城市热岛分析

城市热岛效应是当前城市环境与气候主要研究内容之一。地表温度与气温之间有紧密的联系, 通过遥感反演地表温度已成为研究城市热岛的有效手段。利用MODIS 数据, 获取地表比辐射率与大气透过率2 个基本参数, 运用劈窗算法反演南京市夏季地表温度。基于不同时相的MODIS数据, 对4 幅南京市地表温度反演图像作对比分析, 较好地显示了南京市城市热岛的空间分布、热岛范围和城市热岛强度, 结果表明南京市夏季热岛问题较为严重。     

长春市城市扩张及其微气候响应

针对目前城市化和热岛效应研究多为单一定性评价和半定量化研究,缺乏耦合分析的问题,提出了一种可行的定量耦合分析方法。分析了长春市建设用地扩张和热岛效应的时空演变特征及其关系。首先收集遥感数据,采用归一化差分复合指数阈值分类法提取建设用地,之后采用辐射传输法反演地表温度,以此为基础计算扩张强度、热岛强度等指数,进而将城市扩张与微气候变化进行相关性分析。结果表明,长春市建设用地1990—2016年间增加了608.85km2,2000年后陡增,扩张模式由面状扩张变为沿道路辐射状扩张、飞地式扩张。城市扩张初期,相对热岛效应显著,随着建设用地的扩大,热岛面积增大,但是强度下降。相关性分析表明,单位格网内城市用地所占面积高于40%时地表温度上升明显。     

COSMO雷达数据在多云多雾地区土地变化监测研究

近年来新型成像雷达遥感(极化、干涉)及数据处理技术的发展,SAR遥感影像上获得的地表信息越来越多,如何利用雷达信息探测土地变化成为研究的新课题。但是雷达影像不同于光学影像,目前雷达数据解译仍存在着一些困难。本文主要针对多云多雾地区雷达数据土地变化监测,以四川成都地区COSMO数据为例,利用雷达相干影像,后向散射强度,强度比值影像,提出一种新的雷达处理手段,减少了雷达数据土地变化监测的工作量,提高工作效率。     

城市群热岛时空特征与地表生物物理参数的关系研究

以长株潭城市群区域为例,利用2005年3个不同季节的TERRA/MODIS数据提取的地表温度、归一化植被指数(NDVI)和归一化建筑指数(NDBI),分析了城市热岛效应及其随季节的变化,采用归一化植被指数(NDVI)和归一化建筑指数(NDBI)作为反映地表生物物理特征的参数,分析了城市热岛时空特征与地表生物物理参数的关系。研究结果表明,研究区域城市热岛效应的季相变化明显,一年中夏季与春季的城市热岛效应相对显著,城市地表温度高出周边的郊区达8~10℃;而冬季城市热岛效应相对不太明显,城市地表温度高出周边的郊区4℃。地表温度与归一化植被指数(NDVI)的相关性随季节变化较为明显,说明通常将归一化植被指数(NDVI)作为城市地表温度或城市热岛的代用指标是不适宜的;然而,地表温度与归一化建筑指数(NDBI)在不同季节都呈显著的线性关系,而且地表温度与NDBI线性关系的斜率和截距能够很好地指示不同季节城市热岛的强度,这就为定量分析不同季节城市地表温度的变化提供了物理指数,也为利用遥感研究城市热岛效应提供了新的方法与途径。     

Comparative analysis of urban reflectance and surface temperature

Urban environmental conditions are strongly dependent on the biophysical properties and radiant thermal field of the land cover elements in the urban mosaic. Observations of urban reflectance and surface temperature provide valuable constraints on the physical properties that are determinants of mass and energy fluxes in the urban environment. Consistencies in the covariation of surface temperature with reflectance properties can be parameterized to represent characteristics of the surface energy flux associated with different land covers and physical conditions. Linear mixture models can accurately represent Landsat ETM+ reflectances as fractions of generic spectral endmembers that correspond to land surface materials with distinct physical properties. Modeling heterogeneous land cover as mixtures of rock and/or soil Substrate, Vegetation and non-reflective Dark surface (SVD) generic endmembers makes it possible to quantify the dependence of aggregate surface temperature on the relative abundance of each physical component of the land cover, thereby distinguishing the effects of vegetation abundance, soil exposure, albedo and shadowing. Comparing these covariations in a wide variety of urban settings and physical environments provides a more robust indication of the global variability in these parameter spaces than could be inferred from a single study area. A comparative analysis of 24 urban areas and their non-urban peripheries illustrates the variability in the urban thermal fields and its dependence on biophysical land surface components. Contrary to expectation, moderate resolution intra-urban variations in surface temperature are generally as large as regional surface heat island signatures in these urban areas. Many of the non-temperate urban areas did not have surface heat island signatures at all. However, the multivariate distributions of surface temperature and generic endmember fractions reveal consistent patterns of thermal fraction covariation resulting from land cover characteristics. The Thermal-Vegetation (TV) fraction space illustrates the considerable variability in the well-known inverse correlation between surface temperature and vegetation fraction at moderate (< 100 m) spatial resolutions. The Thermal-Substrate (TS) fraction space reveals energetic thresholds where competing effects of albedo, illumination and soil moisture determine the covariation of maximum and minimum temperature with illuminated substrate fraction. The dark surface endmember fraction represents a fundamental ambiguity in the radiance signal because it can correspond to either absorptive (e.g. low albedo asphalt), transmissive (e.g. deep clear water) or shadowed (e.g. tree canopy shadow) surfaces. However, in areas where dark surface composition can be inferred from spatial context, the different responses of these surfaces may still allow them to be distinguished in the thermal fraction space.     

Ground and top of canopy layer urban heat island partitioning on an airborne image

Analyzing the urban heat island from remote sensing thermal images does not distinguish between the various urban levels, i.e., between ground and the top of the urban canopy layer (roofs surfaces). Applying image processing techniques for roofs/ground partitioning and analyzing these levels separately by DISTCORMAT spatial technique reveals that the heat island centers do not coincide. The distance between these centers on a nocturnal image of Johannesburg (South Africa) may reach more than 300 m.     

不同地表参数变化的上海市热岛效应时空分析

研究地表参数变化与热岛效应的关系对优化城市功能分区以及城市可持续发展具有重要意义。采用上海市2000、2005、2009年3个时期的Landsat ETM+卫星遥感影像,使用归一化不透水面指数(NDISI)、基于指数的植被指数(IVI)、归一化差异水体指数(MNDWI)分别从遥感影像中提取不透水面、植被和水体;然后从时间、空间角度并采用回归分析方法分析了上海市地表参数在这9 a中发生的变化及其对城市热环境造成的影响。结果表明:9 a中城市不透水面面积大幅增加,不透水面增加的代价是植被和水体大范围减少,形成了城市的热岛。上海市整体热岛强度是先增强后缓慢减弱的趋势,且热岛分布从集中型向分散型发展。     

Synergistic use of optical and InSAR data for urban impervious surface mapping: a case study in Hong Kong

A wide range of urban ecosystem studies, including urban hydrology, urban climate, land use planning and watershed resource management, require accurate and up‐to‐date geospatial data of urban impervious surfaces. In this study, the potential of the synergistic use of optical and InSAR data in urban impervious surface mapping at the sub‐pixel level was investigated. A case study in Hong Kong was conducted for this purpose by applying a classification and regression tree (CART) algorithm to SPOT 5 multispectral imagery and ERS‐2 SAR data. Validated by reference data derived from high‐resolution colour‐infrared (CIR) aerial photographs, our results show that the addition of InSAR feature information can improve the estimation of impervious surface percentage (ISP) in comparison with using SPOT imagery alone. The improvement is especially notable in separating urban impervious surface from the vacant land/bare ground, which has been a difficult task in ISP modelling with optical remote sensing data. In addition, the results demonstrate the potential to map urban impervious surface by using InSAR data alone. This allows frequent monitoring of world's cities located in cloud‐prone and rainy areas.     

一种基于指数的新型遥感建筑用地指数及其生态环境意义

城市建筑用地是一种复杂的土地利用类型,在电磁波反射光谱上表现出明显的异质性。因此,很难用简单的方法将其从遥感影像中准确地提取出来。在详细研究了城市建筑用地的光谱特征以后,创建了一种不直接采用影像的原始波段,而是采用由它们衍生的3个指数波段来构成新型建筑用地指数(IBI)。通过对ASTER和Landsat ETM+两种多光谱影像进行的实验表明,新指数除了能够有效地增强影像中的建筑用地信息外,还能和植被指数、水体指数一样,用于进行数值运算,从而实现了建筑用地对城市生态环境影响的定量研究。对厦门、福州两城市的实例分析表明,新的建筑指数与地表温度呈正相关关系,而与植被指数、水体指数呈负相关关系。研究进一步发现,建筑指数与地表温度的关系不是简单的线性关系,而是一种指数函数关系,说明高建筑用地比例地区的升温效应要明显高于低建筑用地比例地区,因此,对城市热岛的形成起着更大的作用。     

HJ-1B卫星遥感数据在重庆市城市热环境监测的应用分析

本文以MODIS反演大气透射率,以HJ-1B/CCD分类结果反演地表比辐射率,并基于单窗算法,利用HJ-1B/IRS4数据反演地表温度.在此基础上,提取研究区的热场变异指数来分析重庆热岛空间分布特征,并就NDVI与NDBI对热岛效应的影响进行了分析.其结果如下:1)重庆城市热岛大致位于中梁山、铜锣山之间,呈东北、西南走向分布;2)热岛中心不在市中心,而是集中在大渡口工业园区、江北机场这些能耗大、人口密集区域,热岛强度范围在5?C-10?C之间;3)接近长江、嘉陵江水域的建筑用地密集区域,其热岛效应并不明显;4)NDVI与热岛强度呈负相关关系,NDBI与热岛强度呈现较为明显的正相关关系,二者对热岛都有重要影响,而NDBI的影响更大.因此,利用HJ-1B数据监测城市热环境,能较好地揭示重庆城市热岛空间分布特征,为城市环境监测与改善提供参考.     

Airborne video thermal radiometry as a tool for monitoring microscale structures of the urban heat island

An advance thermal video radiometer (TVR) was mounted onboard a helicopter and used to collect data over Tel-Aviv, Israel, from an altitude of 7000 feet. The sensor, sensitive to the 3-12 mu m spectral region, consisted of an onboard calibration device and a 1.8 mRad instantaneous field of view (IFOV), which enabled direct assessment of surface radiometric temperature patterns in very high spatial and thermal resolutions. The TVR capability was examined by studying the microscale structures of the urban heat island (UHI) of Tel-Aviv, Israel, during a stable calm night on 28 February 1995. The TVR data were found to be of high quality in terms of signal to noise ratio, reproducibility, stability, thermal sensitivity and spatial resolution capabilities. The radiometric data were analysed against air temperature acquired during the flight time by four mobile traverses that crossed the city from north to south. A significant heat island was identified over the inner city areas, which was found to be 5 C warmer than the rural areas located 4 km to the south-east. Throughout the city, asphalt was found to be the major heat source whereas vegetation was found to be the most cooling element. A linear regression analysis between the air and radiometric temperatures showed that in general, good agreement exists between the two temperatures. Along the western routes (A and B) the correlation was relatively higher than that along the eastern routes (C and D) and was significantly different in the linear regression slope a . We assume that differences in atmospheric conditions, especially in the water vapour variation throughout the city, caused these inconsistencies. We concluded that the examined TVR is a very promising, low-cost remote sensing sensor, which can rapidly and quantitatively monitor the UHI in very high spatial and thermal resolutions from a high altitude. Based on these results we strongly recommend that the TVR be further examined in other remote sensing applications.     

Effects of Landscape Pattern on Annual Variation of Thermal Environment in Hangzhou

Taking the Hangzhou city as an example,this paper retrieves the urban land surface temperature (LST) using 4 Landsat ETM+/OLI_TIRS images and investigates the effects of landscape pattern on the urban thermal environment change.The hot spot analysis was used to identify both the urban heat island and cold island.Landscape pattern indices were adopted to analyze the relationship between the change of the thermal environment and the landscape pattern.Analysis results show that：(1) The proportions of area in urban heat island and cold island in Hangzhou increase first and then decrease with the alternating four seasons;The urban heat island of Hangzhou is the most significant in summer,and the urban cold island effect is more dominant in autumn;(2) Throughout the year,all kinds of landscape has the highest average land surface temperature in summer and the lowest in winter;As for a variety of landscapes,the construction land has the highest average land surface temperature,while,the water body and forest have the relatively low average land surface temperature;(3)On the landscape level,the selected landscape pattern indices are significantly correlated with average land surface temperature in four seasons,the strength of correlation fluctuates with alternating four seasons and the enlargement of analysis window;On the class level,landscape pattern indices of construction land,water body and forest are significantly and highly correlated with average land surface temperature in different seasons.The research in our paper could help to lay out construction land rationally and execute planning and design on urban green space and waters to effectively alleviate the urban heat island effect of Hangzhou.