• Crowdsourced air temperatures contrast satellite measures of the urban heat island and its mechanisms 

      Venter, Zander; Chakraborty, Tirthankar; Lee, Xuhui (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      The ubiquitous nature of satellite data has led to an explosion of studies on the surface urban heat island (SUHI). Relatively few have simultaneously used air temperature measurements to compare SUHI with the canopy UHI ...
    • Global 10 m Land Use Land Cover Datasets: A Comparison of Dynamic World, World Cover and Esri Land Cover 

      Venter, Zander; Barton, David Nicholas; Chakraborty, Tirthankar; Simensen, Trond; Singh, Geethen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      The European Space Agency’s Sentinel satellites have laid the foundation for global land use land cover (LULC) mapping with unprecedented detail at 10 m resolution. We present a cross-comparison and accuracy assessment of ...
    • Lower Urban Humidity Moderates Outdoor Heat Stress 

      Chakraborty, Tirthankar; Venter, Zander; Qian, Y.; Lee, X. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Surface temperature is often used to examine heat exposure in multi-city studies and for informing urban heat mitigation efforts due to scarcity of urban air temperature measurements. Cities also have lower relative humidity, ...