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Urban Heat Island Intensity Changes in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area of China Revealed by Downscaling MODIS LST with Deep Learning

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  • Fan Deng

    (Key Laboratory of Urban Land Resources Monitoring and Simulation, Ministry of Natural Resources, Shenzhen 518040, China
    School of Geosciences, Yangtze University, Wuhan 430100, China)

  • Ying Yang

    (Key Laboratory of Urban Land Resources Monitoring and Simulation, Ministry of Natural Resources, Shenzhen 518040, China
    Shenzhen Planning and Natural Resources Data Management Center, Shenzhen 518040, China)

  • Enling Zhao

    (School of Geosciences, Yangtze University, Wuhan 430100, China)

  • Nuo Xu

    (Big Data Technology Research Center, Nanhu Laboratory, Jiaxing 314000, China)

  • Zhiyuan Li

    (School of Geosciences, Yangtze University, Wuhan 430100, China)

  • Peixin Zheng

    (School of Geosciences, Yangtze University, Wuhan 430100, China)

  • Yang Han

    (School of Geosciences, Yangtze University, Wuhan 430100, China)

  • Jie Gong

    (Institute of Geological Survey, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China)

Abstract

The urban heat island (UHI) effect caused by urbanization negatively impacts the ecological environment and human health. It is crucial for urban planning and social development to monitor the urban heat island effect and study its mechanism. Due to spatial and temporal resolution limitations, existing land surface temperature (LST) data obtained from remote sensing data is challenging to meet the long-term fine-scale surface temperature mapping requirement. Given the above situation, this paper introduced the ResNet-based surface temperature downscaling method to make up for the data deficiency and applied it to the study of thermal environment change in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) from 2000 to 2020. The results showed (1) the ResNet-based surface temperature downscaling method achieves high accuracy (R 2 above 0.85) and is suitable for generating 30 m-resolution surface temperature data from 1 km data; (2) the area of severe heat islands in the GBA continued to increase, increasing by 7.13 times within 20 years; and (3) except for Hong Kong and Macau, the heat island intensity of most cities showed an apparent upward trend, especially the cities with rapid urban expansion such as Guangzhou, Zhongshan, and Foshan. In general, the evolution of the heat island in the GBA diverges from the central urban area to the surrounding areas, with a phenomenon of local aggregation and the area of the intense heat island in the Guangzhou-Foshan metropolitan area is the largest. This study can enrich the downscaling research methods of surface temperature products in complex areas with surface heterogeneity and provide a reference for urban spatial planning in the GBA.

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  • Fan Deng & Ying Yang & Enling Zhao & Nuo Xu & Zhiyuan Li & Peixin Zheng & Yang Han & Jie Gong, 2022. "Urban Heat Island Intensity Changes in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area of China Revealed by Downscaling MODIS LST with Deep Learning," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(24), pages 1-19, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:19:y:2022:i:24:p:17001-:d:1007015
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    1. Qifeng Huang & Longhuan Wang & Binghao Jia & Xin Lai & Qing Peng, 2023. "Impact of Climate Change on the Spatio-Temporal Variation in Groundwater Storage in the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(14), pages 1-18, July.

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