Exploring the impact of urban growth on land surface temperature of Kathmandu Valley, Nepal

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Main Author: Thapa, Sushil
Publication Date: 2017
Format: Master thesis
Language: eng
Source: Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP)
Download full: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/34223
Summary: Dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Geospatial Technologies
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spelling Exploring the impact of urban growth on land surface temperature of Kathmandu Valley, NepalLand use land coverLand Surface TemperatureLandsatRegression analysisThermal Remote SensingUrban fragmentationUrban GrowthUrban Heat IslandDissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Geospatial TechnologiesKathmandu is experiencing rapid urban growth since last few decades. Cities are expanding across the countryside at the expense of productive land. Such urban sprawl has incurred adverse environmental consequences affecting quality of life of urban residents in the valley. Recently, Kathmandu has been identified to be on the verge of climate change, especially in the context of urban warming. Thus exploring the impact of urban growth on land surface temperature could be an effective means to unveil environmental issues caused by anthropogenic activities. This can be useful for the urban planners in urban planning and management as well as to raise public awareness regarding urban warming effect. Advancement in thermal Remote Sensing, GIS and statistical procedure has enabled monitoring land surface temperature and its correlation to land use and land cover. To analyze such relationship, we performed supervised classification and change detection to determine the spatial trend of land use and land cover change. After that we obtained the spatial pattern of LST using thermal band of Landsat images. Then we applied regression analysis to explore the relationship between surface temperature and land surface characteristics including both land use land cover types and land use and land cover indices. Based upon our analysis, we found that urban area has increased considerably by 259% during the period 1988-2014. The surface temperatures were found to be greater for bare soil and urban land use types. The regression analysis showed positive correlation between urban growth and LST. Finally we found LULC indices based approach better than LULC class for LST prediction.Pla Bañón, FilibertoCabral, Pedro da Costa BritoPebesma, EdzerRUNThapa, Sushil2018-04-10T14:41:06Z2017-03-032017-03-03T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesisapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10362/34223TID:201896419enginfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP)instname:FCCN, serviços digitais da FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologiainstacron:RCAAP2024-05-22T17:31:49Zoai:run.unl.pt:10362/34223Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireinfo@rcaap.ptopendoar:https://opendoar.ac.uk/repository/71602025-05-28T17:03:04.449110Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP) - FCCN, serviços digitais da FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologiafalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Exploring the impact of urban growth on land surface temperature of Kathmandu Valley, Nepal
title Exploring the impact of urban growth on land surface temperature of Kathmandu Valley, Nepal
spellingShingle Exploring the impact of urban growth on land surface temperature of Kathmandu Valley, Nepal
Thapa, Sushil
Land use land cover
Land Surface Temperature
Landsat
Regression analysis
Thermal Remote Sensing
Urban fragmentation
Urban Growth
Urban Heat Island
title_short Exploring the impact of urban growth on land surface temperature of Kathmandu Valley, Nepal
title_full Exploring the impact of urban growth on land surface temperature of Kathmandu Valley, Nepal
title_fullStr Exploring the impact of urban growth on land surface temperature of Kathmandu Valley, Nepal
title_full_unstemmed Exploring the impact of urban growth on land surface temperature of Kathmandu Valley, Nepal
title_sort Exploring the impact of urban growth on land surface temperature of Kathmandu Valley, Nepal
author Thapa, Sushil
author_facet Thapa, Sushil
author_role author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Pla Bañón, Filiberto
Cabral, Pedro da Costa Brito
Pebesma, Edzer
RUN
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Thapa, Sushil
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Land use land cover
Land Surface Temperature
Landsat
Regression analysis
Thermal Remote Sensing
Urban fragmentation
Urban Growth
Urban Heat Island
topic Land use land cover
Land Surface Temperature
Landsat
Regression analysis
Thermal Remote Sensing
Urban fragmentation
Urban Growth
Urban Heat Island
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