ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Model of Relationships between Land Surface
Temperature and Urban Built-Up Areas
in Mueang Buriram District, Thailand
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Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Mahasarakham University, Maha Sarakham, Thailand
Submission date: 2019-08-30
Final revision date: 2020-01-06
Acceptance date: 2020-01-07
Online publication date: 2020-04-15
Publication date: 2020-06-08
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Teerawong Laosuwan
Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Mahasarakham University, Khamriang Sub-District, 44150, Kantarawichai District, Thailand
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2020;29(5):3783-3790
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At present, the climate has constantly been changing rapidly, especially global average temperatures
that have increased dramatically. Just a few degrees of rising temperature can cause many natural
disasters. The purposes of this research is to determine the relationship between land surface temperature
and urban built-up areas by applying Landsat-8 satellite data in 2018 in Mueang Buriram district,
Buriram province, Thailand. The research was conducted by estimating land surface temperature using
a split-window algorithm mutually with an analysis of land use and supervised classification methods.
The study results of land surface temperature in each district indicated that Nai Mueang sub-district had
the highest average land surface temperature at 33.27ºC and that Lak khet sub-district had the lowest
average land surface temperature at 28.79ºC. The study results of land use in 3 main areas indicated as
follows: 1) vegetation areas had an area of 703.40 km2, representing 084.41% 2) urban built-up areas had
an area of 118.28 km2, representing 14.19% and 3) and water areas had an area of 11.61 km2, representing
1.40%. The study results of the relationship between land surface temperature and urban built-up areas
indicated an excellent level of relationship and the value of correlation r at 0.9719. In addition, land
surface temperature was forecasted in advance, when urban built-up areas had increased to 100%. And
the results were found that Mueang Buriram district had an increasing land surface temperature of
approximately at 35.11ºC.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.