Study of UHI of Ahmedabad City- Service Provided (Country): India

As a part of the Internship program at Centre for Environment and Education and in order to gain how GIS can be applied w.r.t environmental perspective in the urban planning process, A Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect was carried out for Ahmedabad city. The Urban Heat Island (UHI) study on Ahmedabad has been done before but this study has been correlated with the LULC changes at 5 years’ interval and also its changing NDVI with the same interval of time.

Comparing it with the Land Surface Temperature (LST) so the main objective of this study was to develop a tool kit to know the process of finding the heat in the entire city grid wise with various LULC parameters and on the results to further prioritize the needs to decrease the heat in the city.