{ "culture": "en-US", "name": "", "guid": "", "catalogPath": "", "snippet": "", "description": "This polygon dataset has been produced to monitor areas of urban heat island effect (UHI) for the Significant Urban Area of the Sydney Greater Metropolitan Area for the summer season of 2015-2016. UHI measures the deviation of temperature to a non-urban vegetated reference within the study area to reveal the effects of urbanisation on land surface temperature. A non-urban vegetated reference would be the average temperature for heavily wooded areas of national parks around Sydney. UHI data has been derived from the analysis of land surface temperature (LST) data from Landsat 8 satellite imagery and the thermal and infrared bands with a 25m resolution. This has been integrated with Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Mesh Block polygon dataset to enable spatial analysis to support local policy and decision making.", "summary": "", "title": "Urban Heat Island", "tags": [], "type": "", "typeKeywords": [], "thumbnail": "", "url": "", "minScale": 0, "maxScale": 0, "spatialReference": "", "accessInformation": "Climate Research Team, Climate and Atmospheric Science Branch, Science Division, New South Wales Office of Environment and Heritage (Australia)", "licenseInfo": "" }