by Kayla Guilliams | Sep 14, 2021 | Featured, Urbanization
On August 28, we sent nearly 40 volunteers armed with handheld sensors, smartphones, and smartwatches to help collect urban heat data around town. This citizen science campaign was in partnership with the NC Museum of Life and Science and the Town of Chapel Hill, and...
by Angel Hsu | Aug 14, 2021 | Featured, Urbanization
It’s been a hot summer, and we at UNC’s Data-Driven EnviroLab (DDL) are trying to better understand how people are experiencing the Urban Heat Island effect in cities. We are partnering with the NC Museum of Life and Science to launch a citizen science campaign to...
by TC Chakraborty | Nov 17, 2018 | Big data, Urban Index
Brian Jeffery Beggerly on Flickr.com Urban areas are hot, and are getting hotter. The higher temperature in urban areas – the urban heat island (UHI) effect – is an emergent property of urbanization and a major research area in urban climatology. Most UHI...
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