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NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
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NSW Urban Heat Island to Modified Mesh Block 2016

The Urban Heat Island (UHI) dataset measures the effects of urbanisation on land surface temperatures across Sydney Greater Metropolitan Area for the Summer of 2015-2016.
UHI shows the variation of temperature to a non-urban vegetated reference, such as heavily wooded areas or national parks around Sydney.
Derived from the analysis of thermal and infrared data from Landsat satellite, the dataset has been combined with the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Mesh Block polygon dataset to provide a mean UHI temperature that enables multi-scale spatial analysis of the relationship of heat to green cover.

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Language English
Edition 1
Purpose urban environmental planning, green infrastructure
Frequency of change Not planned
Keywords HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT-Urban-Design,HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT-Livability,HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT-Planning,CLIMATE-AND-WEATHER-Extreme-weather-events,CLIMATE-AND-WEATHER-Temperature,CLIMATE-AND-WEATHER-Climate-change,HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT-Structures-and-Facilities
Field of Research (optional) Urban and Regional Planning not elsewhere classified,Urban Policy,Urban Design
Metadata Date 2019-08-03
Date of Asset Creation 2018-07-01
Date of Asset Publication 2019-03-04
License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
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Record 1
Object type
Surface
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Geospatial Topic Environment
NSW Place Name Sydney Greater Metropolitan Area, Greater Sydney Region
Extent

Dataset extent
Temporal Coverage From 2015-01-10 - 2016-04-30
Datum GDA94 Geographic (Lat\Long)
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Attribution NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water asserts the right to be attributed as author of the original material in the following manner: "© State Government of NSW and NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water 2019"