Appraisal of Urban Heat Island and Its Impacts on Environment Using Landsat TM in Peshawar, Pakistan - Advances in Remote Sensing

ARS > Vol.6 No.3, September 2017

Appraisal of Urban Heat Island and Its Impacts on Environment Using Landsat TM in Peshawar, Pakistan ()

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DOI: 10.4236/ars.2017.63014 1,429 Downloads 3,402 Views Citations

Author(s)

Rashid Mehmood¹, Muhammad Atif Butt¹, Syed Amer Mahmood¹, Farhan Ali²

Affiliation(s)

¹Department of Space Sciences, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan.
²College of Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan.

ABSTRACT

Last couple of decades witnessed a rapid escalation in urban temperature of Peshawar city and its neighboring localities. This alarming condition gave birth to climatic term Urban Heat Island (UHI) created drastic alteration in surface temperatures. In this study, thermal infrared remote sensing data has been employed to map out and monitor such micro-climatic variation in temperatures in land use/land cover exposed surface to the environment. To assess these outcomes resulting from human activities, Landsat TM data band 6 was subjected through ERDAS Imagine 2013. For further processing, ARC GIS helped a lot in making maps to pinpoint the heat island in and around the city. Moreover, a relationship of land surface temperature with urban sprawl, environmental and industrialization was established. This study has shown a substantial upsurge in temperature about 1 to 3 degrees. Urban sprawl and industrialization at the edges are accounting for these conditions. Urban and industrial data has also reinforced the fact being drawn from remotely sensed data. Hence, evaluation of Land surface temperature data captured through remote satellite has proven to be effective tool not only for monitoring and analyzing temperature but also for assessing its adverse impacts on the environment and climate.

KEYWORDS

Land Surface Temperature, Urban Heat Island, Thermal Infrared, Landsat TM

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Mehmood, R. , Atif Butt, M. , Mahmood, S. and Ali, F. (2017) Appraisal of Urban Heat Island and Its Impacts on Environment Using Landsat TM in Peshawar, Pakistan. Advances in Remote Sensing, 6, 192-200. doi: 10.4236/ars.2017.63014.

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