Yujia Zhang

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a framework to identify the best locations and configuration of new green space with respect to cooling benefits in order to mitigate the effect of urban heat island effects.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors applied intensity analysis to quantify the annual intensity of the changes at three levels: time interval, category, and transition, and found that overall land transformation is accelerating across the three time intervals.

TL;DR: This study uses an object-based approach to create a 1 m land-cover classification map of the expansive Phoenix metropolitan area through the use of high spatial resolution aerial photography from National Agricultural Imagery Program that employs an expert knowledge decision rule set and incorporates the cadastral GIS vector layer as auxiliary data.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the first biometeorological observations of solar reflective coating to investigate its thermal performance from a pedestrian perspective and demonstrate the benefits and disadvantages of reflective pavement with respect to various thermal performance metrics.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared and integrated spherical land cover fractions derived from Google Street View (GSV) with the conventional planar land-cover fractions in estimating daytime and nighttime LST variations in the Phoenix metropolitan area, AZ.