It's About Time/AGI

• "Urban Heat Island Project" - NASA and the EPA
  Review of the collaborative effort of NASA and the EPA to study the urban-heat-island effect. Click on links on the sidebar menu to learn how the urban-heat-island effect impacts human health, to read relevant news articles, examine technology used to study urban-heat-islands, and much more.
• "High Spatial Resolution Airborne Multispectral Thermal Infrared Data to Support Analysis and Modeling Tasks in EOS IDS Project ATLANTA", by D.A. Quattrochi and J.C. Luvall
  Technical article goes in-depth into the study of the urban-heat-island effect in Atlanta. Examines the problem and the methods that are being taken to study it.
• "Baton Rouge Shines with Urban Heat" - NASA
  Contains a thermal data image of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
• "Sacramento Glows with Urban Heat" - NASA
  Contains a thermal data image of Sacremento, California.
• "Salt Lake City Shows Hot and Cold Spots" - NASA
  Contains a thermal data image of Salt Lake City, Utah. Interesting to see how the nearby mountains provide a reprieve from the urban-heat-island effect for the city.
• Heat Island Group homepage - Lawerence Berkeley National Laboratory, Environmental Energy Technologies Division
  Click on a title to learn how air quality, high temperatures, cool roofs, vegetation, energy use, and cool pavements are related to the urban-heat-island effect. This site contains a lot of excellent general information as well as many excellent color graphics.

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