Publications

Zoran, M; Savastru, D; Tautan, MN; Baschir, L (2019). Use of satellite data for land surface radiative parameters retrieval of Bucharest metropolitan zone. JOURNAL OF OPTOELECTRONICS AND ADVANCED MATERIALS, 21(8-Jul), 470-483.

Abstract
This paper aims to investigate the influences of urban growth and green land cover decrease on land surface radiative properties and metropolitan climate of Bucharest in Romania. Landsat TM/ETM+/8 OLI and time series MODIS Terra/Aqua and NOAA AVHRR satellite data have been used to assess urban land cover-thermal environment over 2000-2018 years. As the city climate system is very sensitive to air and land surface temperature, land surface albedo, NDVI/EVI vegetation index, latent heat flux, these variables could have a significantly feedback to the projected climate change. The results show that the satellite-inferred radiative parameters agree well with the field-observations.

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1454-4164