Effects of rapid urbanisation on the urban thermal environment between 1990 and 2011 in Dhaka Megacity, Bangladesh

This study investigates the influence of land-use/land-cover (LULC) change on land surface temperature (LST) in Dhaka Megacity, Bangladesh during a period of rapid urbanisation. LST was derived from Landsat 5 TM scenes captured in 1990, 2000 and 2011 and compared to contemporaneous LULC maps. We com...

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Main Authors: Trotter, L., Dewan, A., Robinson, Todd
Format: Journal Article
Published: 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/53461