"Urban
Heat Island Project" - NASA and the EPA
Review of the collaborative effort of NASA and the EPA to study
the urban-heat-island effect. Click on links on the sidebar menu
to learn how the urban-heat-island effect impacts human health,
to read relevant news articles, examine technology used to study
urban-heat-islands, and much more.
"High
Spatial Resolution Airborne Multispectral Thermal Infrared Data
to Support Analysis and Modeling Tasks in EOS IDS Project ATLANTA",
by D.A. Quattrochi and J.C. Luvall
Technical article goes in-depth into the study of the urban-heat-island
effect in Atlanta. Examines the problem and the methods that are
being taken to study it.
"Baton
Rouge Shines with Urban Heat" - NASA
Contains a thermal data image of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
"Sacramento
Glows with Urban Heat" - NASA
Contains a thermal data image of Sacremento, California.
"Salt
Lake City Shows Hot and Cold Spots" - NASA
Contains a thermal data image of Salt Lake City, Utah. Interesting
to see how the nearby mountains provide a reprieve from the urban-heat-island
effect for the city.
Heat
Island Group homepage - Lawerence Berkeley National Laboratory,
Environmental Energy Technologies Division
Click on a title to learn how air quality, high temperatures,
cool roofs, vegetation, energy use, and cool pavements are related
to the urban-heat-island effect. This site contains a lot of excellent
general information as well as many excellent color graphics.
