Applications
- 9.4.1 Surface Temperature Mapping — Measuring land surface temperature across an entire city at sub-100m resolution to map urban heat islands, identify thermal hotspots, and track seasonal and diurnal heat stress.
- 9.4.2 Cool Roof Verification — Using thermal infrared satellite imagery to independently verify whether cool-roof coatings and reflective surfaces deliver their promised heat-reduction performance at city scale.
- 9.4.3 Tree Cover Cooling Analytics — Quantifying the cooling effect of urban tree canopy at parcel and street level to guide planting investment and verify climate adaptation outcomes.
- 9.4.4 Heat Vulnerability Indices — Combining satellite-derived land surface temperature with census and infrastructure data to score neighbourhood-level population vulnerability to lethal heat events.
- 9.4.5 Microclimate Mapping — Combining thermal infrared, multispectral and LiDAR-derived surface data to resolve street-block-scale temperature differentials that city-wide heat maps cannot see.