ASSESSING THE VARIATION OF THE DRY SEASON’S SURFACE TEMPERATURE IN BINH DUONG PROVINCE FROM 2002 TO 2016 BY APPLYING THERMAL REMOTE SENSING

Abstract

Thermal remote sensing with its own concepts and potentials has presented a variety of applications in the atmosphere and land surface temperature (LST) variation detection. The objective of this study is to access the LST variation in the dry season of Binh Duong province for understanding the effect of land-use change on the microclimate conditions. The spectral radiation value was determined from gray-scale of thermal infrared images of Landsat 7 ETM+ and Landsat 8 OLI/TIRs, followed by the LST calculation. Results showed that the LST in dry season decreased approximately 1.5 °C over the past 15 years from 30.8 °C in the year 2002 to 29.3 °C in the year 2016, due to a large area of newly planted land of industrial trees changed into mature ones in 2016. The area, in which temperature increased corresponding to 16.6 % of the natural square, has developed rapidly with new industrial parks, urban areas, and vacant land areas. Therefore, the Government should have solutions to promote its positive side and mitigate its negative side by a suitable land-use structure in order to both develop the economic continuously and help to mitigate the climate change effects.