INVESTIGATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE FORMATION OF URBAN HEAT ISLANDS IN THE CITY OF SALVADOR-BA
urban climate, remote sensing, surface temperature, statistical analysis
The Urban Heat Island (UHI) phenomenon occurs mainly in cities with a high degree of urbanization, and is directly related to the accelerated and disorganized urban growth resulting from the occupation and transformation of the natural environment without adequate planning, posing a risk to human health. In this context, this work intends to investigate the UHI phenomenon in the city of Salvador, capital of the State of Bahia. This city is the most populous in the Northeast region of Brazil (NEB), whose process of unplanned urban expansion, added to anthropogenic actions, favors the emergence of UHIs . Thus, the objective of this work is to analyze and identify the intensifications of the phenomenon of heat islands in the city of Salvador -BA, through thermal images of remote sensing. To fulfill the proposed objective, the methodology consists of two steps: the first will be the analysis of the temperature variation (maximum and minimum) in a period of 30 years, through the application of the statistical method of ANOVA. Thus, the analysis of temperature for a long period is necessary to understand and explain the incidence and intensification of UHIs in the city of Salvador. The second stage consists of obtaining and analyzing images from the MODIS/TERRA Satellite Sensor (day and night) in the period 2011 - 2020, the images will be obtained in the dry season of the city of Salvador-BA, as it is the period of lowest cloudiness, facilitating the identification of the UHI. To obtain images and image analysis, the surface temperature products (MOD11A2) and the NDVI product (MOD13A2) with a spatial resolution of 1000m will be used, observed at six points (Aratu, Ondina, Cajazeiras, Sussuarama, Liberdade and Barragem de Ipitanga). After processing the images in the QGIS software, the statistical method t-Studant (t paired) will be applied to obtain the results of the UHI analysis in the city of Salvador.