TY - BOOK AU - Mishra, Prakher (PG180709) AU - Gandhi , Shaily(Guide) AU - Bhatia, Udit (Guide) TI - Urban heat Island - a case study for the metro city Bangalore (Softcopy is also available) U1 - MG TH-0232 PY - 2020/// N1 - Contents Certificate of Original Authorship i Certificate of Dissertation - Advisor’s consent ii Certificate of Dissertation - Program Chair iv Acknowledgments v Abstract vi List of figures viii List of tables x 1. INTRODUCTION 11 1.1 Work Overview 11 1.2 Urban growth, climate change and urban heat islands 13 1.2.1 Rural to urban migration 13 1.2.2 Change in land use and heat islands 16 1.3 Green urban spaces and heat islands 17 1.3.1 Cooling effects of green spaces 17 1.3.2 Heat island as a threat to local ecosystem 18 2. Literature Survey 19 2.7 Summary of literature survey 31 2.7.1 The UHI phenomenon 31 2.7.2 Ways to measure the UHI effect 32 3 Study area 33 3.1 Economic contribution of Bangalore 33 3.2 Population growth and migration statistics 35 3.3 AIM 36 3.4 Objective 36 3.5 Data Used 36 3.6 Detailed Methodology 37 3.6.1 Data collection and processing 38 3.6.2 Land use land cover classification 42 3.6.3 Change detection matrix 44 3.6.4 Inter-class conversion analysis 45 3.6.5 Land use change 46 3.6.6 Land surface temperature estimation 47 3.6.7 Lst Quantization 51 3.6.8 Modelling 55 3.7 Conclusions 57 Key Advances 60 References 61 Plagiarism Report 62 ER -