Dataset
Green Roof Urban Heat Island Mitigation Dataset for Downtown Iowa City, Iowa (Airborne LiDAR + Satellite Rasters)
Zenodo
03/26/2026
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19242725
Abstract
This dataset contains 11 GeoTIFF raster files supporting the study "Exploring the Cooling Potential of Green Roofs for Mitigating Urban Heat Islands Using LiDAR, Satellite Remote Sensing, and Spatial Convolutional Neural Networks: A Case Study of Downtown Iowa City, Iowa."
Study area: Downtown Iowa City, Iowa, USA (41.66°N, 91.53°W)Spatial resolution: 30 m × 30 mProjection: WGS 1984 UTM Zone 15N (EPSG:32615)Primary scene: Landsat 9 — July 20, 2023
Files included:- DLST_IowaCity_20230720.tif — Daytime LST, July 20, 2023 (primary)- DLST_IowaCity_20230704.tif — Daytime LST, July 4, 2023- NDVI_July20_IowaCity.tif — Normalized Difference Vegetation Index- NDBI_July20_IowaCity.tif — Normalized Difference Built-up Index- WBD_30m.tif — Water body distance (Iowa River)- BH_30m.tif — Building height (LiDAR-derived)- BRI_30m.tif — Building roof index (LiDAR-derived)- BVD_30m.tif — Building volume density (LiDAR-derived)- SR_30m.tif — Area solar radiation (LiDAR-derived)- SVF_30m.tif — Sky view factor (LiDAR-derived)- Final_CNN_GR_Reduction.tif — Simulated DLST reduction after green roof implementation
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Green Roof Urban Heat Island Mitigation Dataset for Downtown Iowa City, Iowa (Airborne LiDAR + Satellite Rasters)
- Creators
- Mirza Md Tasnim Mukarram - University of IowaMarc Linderman - University of IowaQuazi Umme Rukiya - University of IowaJun Wang - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Dataset
- DOI
- 10.5281/zenodo.19242725
- Publisher
- Zenodo
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/26/2026
- Academic Unit
- Electrical and Computer Engineering; Civil and Environmental Engineering; School of Earth, Environment, and Sustainability; Physics and Astronomy; Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
- Record Identifier
- 9985149706502771
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