Urban energy exchanges monitoring from space.

ABSTRACT: One important challenge facing the urbanization and global environmental change community is to understand the relation between urban form, energy use and carbon emissions. Missing from the current literature are scientific assessments that evaluate the impacts of different urban spatial units on energy fluxes; yet, this type of analysis is needed by urban planners, who recognize that local scale zoning affects energy consumption and local climate. Satellite-based estimation of urban energy fluxes at neighbourhood scale is still a challenge. Here we show the potential of the current satellite missions to retrieve urban energy budget fluxes, supported by meteorological observations and evaluated by direct flux measurements. We found an agreement within 5% between satellite and in-situ deriv

SUBMITTER: Chrysoulakis N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6068159 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature