A Sensor Placement Strategy for Comprehensive Urban Heat Island Monitoring

Urban heat islands (UHIs) increase the energy consumption of cities and impact health its residents. In light correlation between UHI variations observed at a local level within canopy layer, satellite-derived land surface temperatures (LSTs) may be insufficient to provide comprehensive information about these deleterious effects. For both LST air collected in spatially representative continuous manner, for process affordable, on-ground temperature humidity sensors must strategically placed. This study proposes strategy placing that utilizes spatial variation measurable factors linked (i.e., seasonal LSTs, wind speed, direction, bareness, climate zones), allowing measurement layer. As city, Pune, India, was used demonstrate how distribute based on variability UHI-related variables. The proposed method helpful any city requiring local-level observations UHI, regardless zone. Further, we evaluate placement low-cost technology use LoRaWAN this purpose, order overcome problem high costs associated with traditional in-situ weather stations.