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#           Eyes on Earth Episode 77 – ECOSTRESS and Urban Heat      

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Eyes on Earth is a podcast on remote sensing, Earth observation, land change and science, brought to you by the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center. In this episode, we learn about tracking urban heat from space.

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**Summary**: We don't need a scientist to tell us that city streets catch and hold heat. Anyone who's walked barefoot from a parking lot to a beach can tell you that. What scientists can help us understand, particularly scientists who work with spaceborne, remotely sensed data, is just how big a difference there is between cities and the countryside. That gap is sometimes referred to as the urban heat island effect. At the height of summer, heat disparities can have a large impact on at risk human populations. On this episode, we hear from a remote sensing scientist and a sustainability coordinator for the city of Los Angeles who teamed up to study the impact of cool pavement coating as an urban heat mitigation strategy.

**Guests:**Glynn Hulley, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Greg Spotts, City of Los Angeles

**Host:** John Hult

**Producer:** John Hult

**Release date:** July 11, 2022

**More on remote sensing and disease risk:**
                                - ECOSTRESS Mission
                                - LP DAAC homepage
                                - ECOSTRESS Shaping How We View Urban Heat Islands
                                - New ECOSTRESS and MODIS Land Surface Temperature Data Reveal Fine-Scale Heat Vulnerability in Cities: A Case Study for Los Angeles County, California

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Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center 

tglynn@usgs.gov

605-594-6046

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Eyes on Earth is a podcast on remote sensing, Earth observation, land change and science, brought to you by the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center. In this episode, we learn about tracking urban heat from space.

Download and Transcript Access

View Media Details

**Summary**: We don't need a scientist to tell us that city streets catch and hold heat. Anyone who's walked barefoot from a parking lot to a beach can tell you that. What scientists can help us understand, particularly scientists who work with spaceborne, remotely sensed data, is just how big a difference there is between cities and the countryside. That gap is sometimes referred to as the urban heat island effect. At the height of summer, heat disparities can have a large impact on at risk human populations. On this episode, we hear from a remote sensing scientist and a sustainability coordinator for the city of Los Angeles who teamed up to study the impact of cool pavement coating as an urban heat mitigation strategy.

**Guests:**Glynn Hulley, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Greg Spotts, City of Los Angeles

**Host:** John Hult

**Producer:** John Hult

**Release date:** July 11, 2022

**More on remote sensing and disease risk:**
                                - ECOSTRESS Mission
                                - LP DAAC homepage
                                - ECOSTRESS Shaping How We View Urban Heat Islands
                                - New ECOSTRESS and MODIS Land Surface Temperature Data Reveal Fine-Scale Heat Vulnerability in Cities: A Case Study for Los Angeles County, California

### Study Area

### Contacts

#### Timothy A. Glynn

##### Chief of Staff

Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center 

tglynn@usgs.gov

605-594-6046

### Explore Search

                      - Climate
                      - Information Systems
                      - Maps and Mapping
                      - LP DAAC
                      - ECOSTRESS
                      - Urban Heat Islands
                      - International Space Station
                      - podcasts
                      - Eyes on Earth
                      - earth observation

View All **