Assessment and synergy analysis of outdoor thermal comfort and thermal infrared remote sensing for urban heat island studies

The aim of this research is to explore the potentialities and limits integration remote sensing biophysical data (land surface temperature) in outdoor thermal comfort studies. Accordingly, by examining correlations between land temperature air temperature, using respectively satellite MODIS different weather stations archives alongside questionnaire surveys. Currently, parameters indices are usually calculated from one, or few permanent portable ground-based stations. Due lack adequate distribution stations, those calculations generally do not accurately represent alteration comfort, through time space. Nevertheless, it has been essentially proved that despite strong tendencies in-situ measured remotely sensed ones, various elements need be studied (e.g., location, type, vegetation, elevation). Finally, preliminary results confirm proposed linear approaches providing considerable promising performance suitable for future specific situations studies purposes.