Remote Sensing of Urban Microclimate Change in L’Aquila City (Italy) after Post-Earthquake Depopulation in an Open Source GIS Environment

Remote Sensing of Urban Microclimate Change in L’Aquila City (Italy) after Post-Earthquake Depopulation in an Open Source GIS Environment

This work reports a first attempt to use Landsat satellite imagery to identify possible urban microclimate changes in a city center after a seismic event that affected L’Aquila City (Abruzzo Region, Italy), on 6 April 2009. After the main seismic event, the collapse of part of the buildings, and the...

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Main Authors: Valerio Baiocchi, Fabio Zottele, Donatella Dominici
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2017-02-01
Series:Sensors
Subjects:
Landsat
L’Aquila
thermal correction
urban heating
open source
earthquake
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/17/2/404

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