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Dynamics of Urban Heat Island in Lafia, Nasarawa State of Nigeria: A Remote Sensing Analysis of Land Surface Temperature, Urban Development and Vegetation Change

Oladiran Johnson Abimbola·Taiwo Adewumi·Musa Abubakar
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As the global climate changes, urban heat island (UHI) is a critical factor in ever expanding urban landscape, studying and mitigating the UHI is important for remediating climate change and providing for the human and ecosystem health within the urban area. This study has aimed to study the UHI in Lafia, a tropical city in Nigeria and its other impacted factors such as the land surface temperature (LST) and normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), with the aim of mitigating the UHI effect. Landsat 4, 5, 7 and 8 together with Sentinel data has been used for this study, through the public archive of the Google Earth Engine data catalog, used also is the ERA5 data from the same data catalog. The result showed that the expanding city of Lafia is experiencing significant UHI with increase in temperatures in the city and adjoining areas, it was found that the vegetation cover in Lafia city is rapidly disappearing as a result of urbanization leading to more UHI and greater discomfort to the inhabitant of the city. Several remediation steps were suggested to mitigate the UHI effect in Lafia.

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Oladiran Johnson Abimbola, Taiwo Adewumi, Musa Abubakar. 2025-03-21. Dynamics of Urban Heat Island in Lafia, Nasarawa State of Nigeria: A Remote Sensing Analysis of Land Surface Temperature, Urban Development and Vegetation Change. https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.17052

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