Mapping of local climate zones of Moscow city

Cartography

UDC:

528.94

DOI:

10.22389/0016-7126-2018-936-6-14-25

1 Samsonov T.E.

2 Trigub K.S.

Year:

2018

№:

936

Pages:

14-25

Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU)

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Abstract:

Local climatic zones are areas with a uniform land cover, structure, materials and a specific character of human activity, which have a special type of interaction with the surface layer of the atmosphere. Allocating climatic zones in cities provides possibility to reduce various combinations of built-up and land cover to a limited number of classes that can be used to unify the places of observing urban heat island, and to facilitate detailed climatic and meteorological modeling. The article presents the experience of mapping the local climatic zones of Moscow based on the Landsat 8 space imagery within the framework of the WUDAPT (World Urban Database Project) project. Evaluation of quality of space imagery interpretation was carried out by the method of cross-validation of the training samples. The analysis of the derived zones distribution is presented, estimation of their content is made on the basis of OpenStreetMap data, the availability of meteorological stations in different zone types is calculated, and prospects of further research are outlined.

Keywords:

interpretation of space imagery, local climatic zones, OpenStreetMap, thematic mapping, urban climate, WUDAPT

The study was carried out with the financial support of grants from RGO-RFBR No. 12/2015 (implementation of the LCZ technology for Moscow) and RFBR No. 15-05-03911-a (development of the LCZ verification technology based on OpenStreetMap data)

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Citation:

Samsonov T.E.,

Trigub K.S.,

(2018) Mapping of local climate zones of Moscow city. Geodesy and cartography = Geodezia i Kartografia, 79(6), pp. 14-25. (In Russian). DOI: 10.22389/0016-7126-2018-936-6-14-25