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Bi-Temporal Analysis of Vegetation Index on Land Surface Temperature in Kottayam, Kerala

Vijayakumar Anitha1 , Marimuthu Prashanthi Devi2 and Duraisamy Prabha1 *

1 Department of Environmental Sciences, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu India

2 Department of Environmental Science and Management, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu India

Corresponding author Email: prabha.ens@buc.edu.in

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12944/CWE.18.3.13

The impact of NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) on the LST (Land Surface Temperature) as well as on the genesis of surface heat islands in urban areas during two different time periods was assessed in Kottayam district, Kerala, India. Landsat TM, Landsat OLI and TIRS imagery from the years 1988 and 2020 were employed to scrutinize the relationship between NDVI and LST. The area covered under different NDVI classes were quantified. The finding indicated that NDVI of the research region decreased from 0.77 in 1988 to 0.59 in 2020, resulting in an increase in LSTmax from 34.46 °C in 1988 to 40.63 °C in 2020. Decrease in NDVI resulted in an increase in the high UHI class from 20.83 km2 in 1988 to 660.59 km2 and from 7.26 km2 to 181.35km2 in the very high UHI class. An inverse relationship was observed between NDVI and LST, with Pearson coefficients of 0.5737 and 0.5199 for 1988 and 2020, respectively, which indicates that NDVI could serve as a crucial metric for evaluating LST and UHI effects. Future research will explore the effect of seasonal variability in LULCC on LST, day and night time UHI and their impacts on human health and energy consumption.

Land Surface Temperature; Landsat OLI and TIRS; Landsat TM; Normalized Difference Vegetation Index; Urban Heat Island

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Anitha V, Devi M. P, Prabha D. Bi-Temporal Analysis of Vegetation Index on Land Surface Temperature in Kottayam, Kerala. Curr World Environ 2023;18(3). DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.12944/CWE.18.3.13

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