ISSN 2070-7401 (Print), ISSN 2411-0280 (Online)
Sovremennye problemy distantsionnogo zondirovaniya Zemli iz kosmosa
CURRENT PROBLEMS IN REMOTE SENSING OF THE EARTH FROM SPACE

  

Sovremennye problemy distantsionnogo zondirovaniya Zemli iz kosmosa, 2017, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 51-66

Thermophysical properties of land surface in urban areas (by satellite remote sensing of Saint Petersburg and Kiev)

V.I. Gornyy 1 , S.G. Kritsuk 1 , I.Sh. Latypov 1 , A.A. Tronin 1 , A.V. Kiselev 1 , O.V. Brovkina 2 , V.E. Filippovich 3 , S.A. Stankevich 3 , N.S. Lubskii 3 
1 SRCES RAS, St. Petersburg, Russia
2 Global Change Research Institute (CzechGlobe), Brno, Czech Republic
3 Scientific Centre for Aerospace Research of the Earth NAS of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine
Accepted: 27.02.2017
DOI: 10.21046/2070-7401-2017-14-3-51-66
Thermophysical properties of land surface of urban areas determine the response to the continuous climate change. St. Petersburg and Kiev, two big cities with over a million of population were chosen to be objects of the study. These cities are differently structured and located in the different climate zones. The maps of thermophysical properties of land surface were compiled basing on the results of multispectral and infrared-thermal surveys carried out by remote sensing satellites Terra/Aqua (MODIS instrument) and Landsat 8. The regression approach was used to improve the spatial resolution of maps up to 90 m. It was found that particular functional zones of the city have specific thermophysical properties. That specificity is considered to be a fundamental basis to the remote monitoring of the situation at the various functional zones of residential areas as well as for the analysis of the overheating danger in the urban environment under the global warming impact. Thermophysical properties of the land surface in industrial zones and civic centres determine the increased response to a climate warming. The compiled maps of thermophysical properties can be used to predict the urbanized environment response to the climate change.
Keywords: urban area, satellite, remote sensing, mapping, thermophysical properties, specificity, Global warming, thermal response, the threat of overheating
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