Urban areas cause several transformations in the landscape through the replacement of vegetation and permeable soils for buildings and waterproofing of surfaces. Such changes result in a different energy balance according ...

© 2022 Elsevier B.V.Surface urban heat islands (SUHIs) are an important socio-environmental problem associated with large cities, such as the Santiago Metropolitan Area (SMA), in Chile. Here, we analyze daytime and nighttime ...

Expansion and uncontrolled urban development have greatly altered the structure of land cover on a global scale. Drastic change of land use causes important secondary effects in the processes of energy balance on the ...

Land surface transformations associated to the urbanization has impacted local climates and terrestrial surface energy processes. The occurrence of higher temperatures in urbanized areas when compared to rural and natural ...

Arica is a coastal city located in northern Chile, in the Atacama Desert. The behavior of surface temperatures in the city between 1985 and 2019 was studied using Landsat satellite images, leading to the identification of ...

In this work, land surface temperature (LST) from moderate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensor was used for the estimation data for 2001 to 2016 period. Forecasting of LST and identification of surface urban ...