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Technical Document - Using EnviroAtlas to Identify Locations for Urban Heat Island Abatement
Citation:
Panlasigui, S. Technical Document - Using EnviroAtlas to Identify Locations for Urban Heat Island Abatement. U.S. EPA Office of Research and Development, Washington, DC, 2017.
Impact/Purpose:
Objective of Use Case: For Multnomah County, Oregon, this use case demonstrates how city planners could use EnviroAtlas data with a map of UHI to select candidate areas that might benefit from UHI mitigation through the installation of green infrastructure. Street trees are one option, but other solutions include rooftop gardens and other green roofs. Using remote sensing and geospatial analysis, we calculate differences in land surface temperature (LST) that we attribute to UHI.
Description:
EnviroAtlas Use CaseEnviroAtlas contains ecological, economic and demographic datasets for two spatial extents—the contiguous U.S. and featured communities. This use case demonstrates how EnviroAtlas data can be used along with other data sources to explore one solution for minimizing the negative impacts of excessive summer heat due to urbanization. The analysis was conducted for Portland, Oregon and the surrounding area, and can be applied to any other location.