Urban Thermal Environment & Reflectance Characteristics

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Comparative analysis of Landsat 7 surface temperature and spectral endmember fractions

for 24 cities shows consistent relationships between surface temperature and vegetation

fraction and bidirectional variation of surface temperature with substrate fractions.  Details in:

Small, C. Comparative Analysis of Urban Reflectance and Surface Temperature, Remote Sensing of Environment, In Press 2006.