Relationships between land use types and urban heat island intensity in Hulu Langat district, Selangor, Malaysia

Ecological Processes

Research

Muhammad Rendana¹  Wan Mohd Razi Idris²  Sahibin Abdul Rahim³  Hussein Almohamad⁴  Ahmed Abdullah Al Dughairi⁴  Motrih Al-Mutiry⁵  Hazem Ghassan Abdo⁶ 

[1] Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Sriwijaya, 30662, Indralaya, South Sumatra, Indonesia;Department of Earth Sciences and Environment, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600, Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia;Department of Environmental Science, Faculty of Science and Natural Resources, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, 88400, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia;Department of Geography, College of Arabic Language and Social Studies, Qassim University, 51452, Buraydah, Saudi Arabia;Department of Geography, College of Arts, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, 11671, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia;Geography Department, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Tartous University, Tartous, Syria;

关键词: Geospatial technology;    Urban heat island;    Land contribution index;    Land surface temperature;    Environment;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s13717-023-00446-9

 received in 2023-01-09, accepted in 2023-07-10,  发布年份 2023

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundUrban heat island (UHI) is an urban climate phenomenon that primarily responds to urban conditions and land use change. The extent of hard surfaces significantly influences the thermal properties of the land. To address this issue, a novel approach quantifying the association between land use and UHI is developed. This study offers a new technique for effectively estimating the effect of land use on the UHI intensity using the combination of urban heat intensity index (UHII) and land contribution index (LCI) derived from Landsat 8 OLI images. The time-series thermal effect of land use on the UHI intensity can be determined according to the ratio in mean temperature between specific land use and the whole study site. The study was conducted in the Hulu Langat district, Malaysia during 2014–2021.ResultsThe UHI intensity rose from 0.19 in 2014 to 0.70 in 2021. The negative value of LCI for vegetation areas and water bodies obtained its negative contribution to the urban heat island, while the positive value of LCI for bare areas and built-up areas showed its positive effect on the urban heat island. The LCI value for urban areas showed a significant increase in the 7 years such as 0.51, 0.66, 0.69, and 0.75 for periods 2014, 2016, 2018, and 2021, respectively. The change in LCI from 2014 to 2021 for the transformation of bare area and forest was recorded to be 0.23 and − 0.02, respectively. Thus, the conversion of forests into urban areas had a negative effect on the increment of UHI intensity. ConclusionsOverall, these findings are useful for policy-making agency in developing an effective policy for reducing high UHI intensity and planning long-term land use management.

【 授权许可】

CC BY   
© The Author(s) 2023

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