Land cover change effects on land surface temperature trends in an African urbanizing dryland region

Land use-land cover (LULC) association with land surface temperature (LST) is well known. Knowledge about land change effects on LST in urbanizing African drylands is very limited. We examined LST and vegetation variations in semi-arid Gaborone (Botswana's capital) using MODIS daytime and night...

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Main Authors: Felicia O. Akinyemi, Mphoentle Ikanyeng, Javier Muro
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-12-01
Series:City and Environment Interactions
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590252020300106