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Colloquium | Understanding Urban Heat Islands Using Low-Cost Sensors

Title	Understanding Urban Heat Islands Using Low-Cost Sensors
Speaker	Prasad Pathak, Associate Professor, FLAME University Prasad Pathak is a physical geographer with specialization in Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems. Using these techniques Prasad studies various environmental phenomena. For his doctoral work, Prasad studied glacial lakes in arctic Alaska for changes in their trophic structure and its links with surrounding landscapes. He completed his doctoral degree from University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG), NC, USA. Prasad is currently a faculty at the FLAME University.
Date & Time	Saturday, 21 September 2019 \| 14:00-15:30
Venue	Kelkar Lab, CMS, SPPU
Abstract	Ever-increasing urbanization is resulting into Urban Heat Islands (UHI). Traditionally, thermal remote sensing data has been used to study the nature and extent of it. The literature showed that many studies have been diverted a bit from its initial definition and showed inverted UHI for urban areas in India. Apart from that, this approach also does not reveal local variations of UHI. In recent times,meteorological stations (government owned and privately owned) are being referred to supplement the remotely sensed data. Paucity of the weather stations, however, limit these kinds of studies. In this research, use of open source based low-cost sensors is examined to characterize various urban surfaces for surface emperature, and air temperature, which can be taken as indicator of the two sub-types of UHI. It was observed that low-cost sensors are useful in characterizing the surfaces and capturing the required local UHI variations. Further experimentation is required to meaningfully use these low-cost sensors for UHI studies at city scale.
Organizer/Host	Pranav Kulkarni / Mayur Pandya

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