TY  - JOUR
TI  - LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES IN RESPONSE TO CHANGES IN FOREST COVER
AB  - Land cover/use changes specially the forest cover changes affect the local surface temperature (LST) of theearth. In this study, a combination of remote sensing and GIS techniques was used to scrutinize the interactions betweenLST anomalies and deforestation in Sardasht County, NW Iran. The land cover/use change layers of the study area wereextracted from Landsat satellite imagery based on Binary Encoding classification and change detection technique. Theradiometric correction analysis were done for each Landsat image to derive LST map layers. According to the results, adescending trend in forest cover with a total 2560 ha decline in area and an ascending trend of about 4 degrees rise insurface temperature values on both forest and non-forest areas were detected in the study area from 1984 to 2017. Thetemporal and spatial analysis yielded high rates of reverse temporal correlation (-0.81) between forest areas and LSTanomalies while the correlation value of 0.76 was found for non-forest areas and LST. The regression analysis of the valuesconfirmed the correlation results to be trustable at 99 percent. It was also found that the deforested areas of the study areacorrelate with the LST rise spatially with a very high correlation (0.98) from which a tangible interaction of the parameterscan be inferred.
AU  - NAJAR, Mohamed
AU  - GÜNDÜZ, ORHAN
AU  - KHORRAMI, Behnam
AU  - GHOUZLANE, Souad
AU  - PATEL, Nilanchal
DO  - 10.26833/ijeg.549944
PY  - 2019
JO  - International Journal of Engineering and Geosciences
VL  - 4
IS  - 3
SN  - 2548-0960
SP  - 149
EP  - 156
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/334172
ER  -