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<p>This article is a quantitative study of the urban expansion of Beijing in the past two decades and its impact on the city’s heat island effect. The overall idea of this paper is a ‘basic fact description to phenomenon and law reveal-basic cause analysis-mechanism analysis-model simulation’. In this paper, the effects of urbanisation on warming in Beijing are deduced by nonlinear fitting method. Based on Google Earth Engine remote sensing image data within Beijing Inner Sixth Ring Road and using ArcGIS to retrieve Beijing’s surface temperature, the heat island effect intensity index is calculated. This paper quantitatively analyses the temporal and spatial distribution characteristics and development trends of Beijing’s urban heat island effect, combined with land use cover change (LUCC), Land Surface Temperature (LST), Normalised difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Normalised difference Building Index (NDBI), which can explore the impact of surface vegetation distribution and building density on the urban heat island effect.</p>
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This article is a quantitative study of the urban expansion of Beijing in the past two decades and its impact on the city’s heat island effect. The overall idea of this paper is a ‘basic fact description to phenomenon and law reveal-basic cause analysis-mechanism analysis-model simulation’. In this paper, the effects of urbanisation on warming in Beijing are deduced by nonlinear fitting method. Based on Google Earth Engine remote sensing image data within Beijing Inner Sixth Ring Road and using ArcGIS to retrieve Beijing’s surface temperature, the heat island effect intensity index is calculated. This paper quantitatively analyses the temporal and spatial distribution characteristics and development trends of Beijing’s urban heat island effect, combined with land use cover change (LUCC), Land Surface Temperature (LST), Normalised difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Normalised difference Building Index (NDBI), which can explore the impact of surface vegetation distribution and building density on the urban heat island effect.

The impact of urban expansion in Beijing and Metropolitan Area urban heat Island from 1999 to 2019

Department of Information Technology, Faculty of Computing and Information Technology

Applied Mathematics and Nonlinear Sciences

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

This article is a quantitative study of the urban expansion of Beijing in the past two decades and its impact on the city’s heat island effect. The overall...

The impact of urban expansion in Beijing and Metropolitan Area urban heat Island from 1999 to 2019

Published Online: Nov 22, 2021

Page range: 581 - 600

Received: Jun 06, 2021

Accepted: Sep 24, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/amns.2021.1.00104

Keywords
simulation model, remote sensing image, NDVI, NDBI

© 2021 Jinpei Yang et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

The impact of urban expansion in Beijing and Metropolitan Area urban heat Island from 1999 to 2019

Published Online: Nov 22, 2021

Page range: 581 - 600

Received: Jun 06, 2021

Accepted: Sep 24, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/amns.2021.1.00104

Keywordssimulation model, remote sensing image, NDVI, NDBI

© 2021 Jinpei Yang et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Keywords
simulation model, remote sensing image, NDVI, NDBI