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Land surface thermal feature change monitoring in urban and non-urban interface from 1985 to present (ver. 5.0, December 2023)

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
1985
End Date
2020
Revision
2020-08-20
Revision
2021-05-20
Revision
2022-01-20
Last Revision
2023-12-11

Citation

Xian, G.Z., Shi, H., Mueller, C.W., Hussain, R.A., Arab, S., Sayler, K.L., and Howard, D., 2019, Land surface thermal feature change monitoring in urban and non-urban interface from 1985 to present (ver. 5.0, December 2023): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9H6E1FZ.

Summary

Surface Urban Heat Island (SUHI) extent, intensity, and hotspots data of land surface temperature (LST) are provided across 50 regions throughout the Continental U.S. The annual land surface temperature (LST) were derived from Landsat U.S. Analysis Ready Data (ARD). The time series land surface Temperature (LST) and land cover change products were used to produce SUHI intensity and hotspots products. The data ranges from 1985-present, and covers data within 5 km of each city. SUHI Intensity data is intended to quantify the difference between urban surface temperatures and the surrounding non-urban environment. The calculation takes the difference between a specific urban pixel’s land surface temperature (LST) and the mean of the cities [...]

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Contacts

Point of Contact :
George Z Xian
Originator :
George Z Xian, Hua Shi, Chase (Contractor) W Mueller, Reza A Hussain (CTR), Saeed (Contractor) Arab, Kristi L Sayler, Danny Howard
Metadata Contact :
George Z Xian
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
SDC Data Owner :
Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center
USGS Mission Area :
Core Science Systems
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase

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SUHI_USA_main_FGDC 5.0.xml
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SUHI_version_history 5.0.txt 7.42 KB text/plain
USA_50_IATA_5_bf_SB.jpg thumbnail 2.55 MB image/jpeg

Purpose

Landsat surface temperature data is an important geophysical variable for understanding the thermal, hydrological, and societal impacts of urbanization. However, due to Landsat’s limited temporal frequency and the additional impacts of cloud cover, significant processing of the data is required to begin leveraging Landsat’s resolution and historical record. This dataset aims to eliminate the processing step and provide analysis ready data for evaluating the surface urban heat island.
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Revision 5.0 by Hua Shi on December 11, 2023. To review the changes that were made, see “SUHI_version_history 5.0.txt” in the attached files section.

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