Urban Heat Island: Identification of Spatial Patterns of Green Open Space for Mitigation in Kendal Industrial Park, Indonesia

Abstract

The development of industrial estates is a strategy in encouraging the growth of national industries in Indonesia. The development of industrial estates, especially in the regions, is an implementation of the 2015-2035 master Plan of National Industry Development. Kendal Industrial Park (KIP) is one of the industrial estates in Central Java which is experiencing growth and is expected to be one of the choices for investors. The development of industrial estates in the regions has an impact on changes and increases in space requirements. This condition makes land-use change green land into industrial land which is the cause of the effect of rising air temperatures in cities. This study intends to identify the need for green open spaces spatially based on the phenomenon of increasing temperature in the Kendal industrial area using the Urban Heat Island (UHI) approach. Remote Sensing via satellite imagery is used to detect UHI spatially. The location of this UHI will later be used as spatial modelling data to assess how big and where green open space is needed. The results of this study are in the form of a spatial identification of the adequacy of green open space which will mitigate the UHI phenomenon in the Kendal industrial area which is presented spatially in the form of a thematic map.