Land Cover Changes and Their Relationship with Land Surface Temperature Using Remote Sensing Technique.

Cover Page -- Halft Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Table -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Remote Sensing -- 3 UHI Effect -- 4 Study Area -- 5 Remotely Sensed Data -- 6 Methodology -- 6.1 Radiometric Calibration -- 6.2 Relative Radiometric Normalization Technique -- 6.3 LST Retrieval -- 6.4 NDVI Computation -- 6.5 Cloud Masking -- 6.6 Omission and Commission Error in Image Classification -- 7 Results -- 7.1 Relative Radiometric Normalization Technique of Imagery -- 7.2 NDVI Computation Based on the Relative Radiometric Normalization Technique -- 7.3 Relationship between LST and NDVI -- 7.4 Urbanization Impact on LST -- 8 Image Classification -- 9 Accuracy Assessment of Image Classification -- 9.1 Random Sample -- 9.2 Classification Error Matrices -- 9.3 Kappa Coefficient -- 10 Data Analysis of Image Classification -- 11 Land Cover Changes in Penang Island -- 11.1 From 1991 to 1999 -- 11.2 From 1991 to 2002 -- 11.3 From 1999 to 2007 -- 11.4 From 1991 to 2007 -- 12 Conclusion -- References -- The Authors -- Index.

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