This study aims to investigate the alteration of land use land cover (LULC) change and its response to change in land surface temperature (LST) and heat island phenomena of a rural district of Farim in the north of Iran from 1990 to 2020 using multi-date Landsat data. The LULC result suggests that most land cover type changes are dedicated to bare land with a 24.83 km2 gain (+80.87%). The result demonstrates that the main changing factors of the bare land are population/precipitation and temperature/population.
Additionally, the effect of LULC change on seasonal LST and urban heat island (UHI) is also analyzed in this study. The result witnessed a significant rise of LST in both the summer and winter seasons of about 12.87 °C and 14.2 °C, respectively. The urban thermal field variance index (UTFVI) shows the strongest zone in the central area and no UTFVI zone in the surrounding region.
" authors: - family-names: Mahdavi Estalkhsari given-names: Bonin orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2951-5860" - family-names: Mohammad given-names: Pir orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0075-6372" title: "Data underlying the publication: Change Detection in a Rural Landscape: A case study of processes and main driving factors and its response to land surface temperature and heat island phenomenon in Farim, Iran" keywords: version: 1 identifiers: - type: doi value: 10.4121/19589734.v1 license: CC0 date-released: 2022-04-19