The widespread use of low-cost environmental monitoring systems, together with recent developments in the design Internet Things architectures and protocols, has given new impetus to smart city applications. Such progress should, particular, considerably improve fine characterization a wide range physical quantities within our cities. Indeed, cost-effectiveness these emerging sensors combined t...

Urban planning exerts influences on environmental, social and economic system related with the city. Processes of land transformation and city growth determine radical changes in urban landscape morphology and as a consequence they affect air temperature and energy exchange. The urbanization can bear on local climate more intensively than the global warming does. This is due to the rapidity of ...

An increase in global temperature will likely result more intense and frequent heatwaves that would last longer. Simultaneously, the growth of urban population requires areas land incorporated into urbanization, because most people are expected to live cities, which intensity duration heat islands. However, extent link between warming induced urbanization caused islands is barely understood. Un...

Urban parks have been shown to form park cool islands (PCIs), which can effectively alleviate the negative influences of urban heat islands (UHI). However, few studies have examined the detailed characteristics of PCIs, the effect of urban park features on their individual temperatures, and monthly variation in PCIs. Land surface temperature (LST) retrieved from Landsat 8 TIR images between May...

“In the planning and designing of new communities, housing projects, and urban renewal, the planners, both public and private, need to give explicit consideration to the kind of world that is being created for the children who will be growing up in these settings. Particular attention should be given to the opportunities which the environment presents or precludes for involvement of children wi...

Cities are experiencing rapid population growth and consequently extensive urbanization. Land-use/land-cover change is one of the important elements worldwide, which significantly affect the environment. This study aims to describe the emergence of urban heat and cool islands as a result of changes in land-use/land-cover. Land surface temperature over a 32-year period in Isfahan city, Iran was ...