A Salem State University Student website that researched urban heat island effect.
NASA website which provides both information and a video explaining how urban heat islands are being caused by.
An Environmental Protection Agency website that provides research about urban heat islands are caused and how to take steps to reduce temperatures.
The City of Boston website provides not only information about urban heat islands, but also comparing cities and towns in Massachusetts.
A PDF case study that measures urban heat temperatures between 1993-2009 in Westfield, Massachusetts
A PDF case study that reports about climate change throughout the Salem sound and surrounding cities that are close to Salem. Urban heat Island is mentioned multiple times.
A USGS website that describes water runoff the cycle of water
Resources
A Text book that provided the fundamentals of urban heat island and remote sensing. Chapter 6 (PDF)
GIS database for the state of Massachusetts
A regional planning agency based out in Boston that provides research topics from environmental to quantitative statistical reports of Eastern Massachusetts
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Websites that provides an explanation of MODIS a case study about collecting land surface temperature data
Websites that provides an explanation of AVHRR and a case study about collecting land surface temperature data
Websites that provides an explanation of Landsat and a case study about collecting Impervious surface data