Atmospheric and Climate Sciences, 2018, 8, 318-336 http://www.scirp.org/journal/acs ISSN Online: 2160-0422 ISSN Print: 2160-0414 DOI: 10.4236/acs.2018.83021 Jul. 12, 2018 318 Atmospheric and Climate Sciences Spatio-Temporal Variability in Land Surface Temperature and Its Relationship with Vegetation Types over Ibadan, South-Western Nigeria Blessing Bolarinwa Fabeku 1* , Ifeoluwa Adebowale Balogun 2 , Suleiman Abdul-Azeez Adegboyega 2 , Orimoloye Ipoola Faleyimu 1 1 Ondo State University of Science and Technology, Akure, Nigeria 2 Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria Abstract Ibadan has experienced a rapid urbanization over the past few decades due to heavy influx of people from different parts of the country as a result of im- proved economy of the region. This development induced a great change in land use and land cover over the region which has become a major environ- mental concern recently. This study assessed Land Surface Temperature (LST) and its spatio-temporal relationship with land cover type over Ibadan. Land use/Land cover dynamics were assessed using index maps generated from Landsat Satellite data (TM, ETM+ and OLI) of Ibadan. The corrected thermal Infrared bands of the Landsat data were used to retrieve LST. The results re- vealed a notable increase in built-up areas from 5.64% of the total land cover area in 1984 to 14.05% in 2014. This change has caused increase in surface temperature of Ibadan from 3.56˚C to 8.54˚C between 1984 and 2014 respec- tively. The study recorded a continuous decrease in the vegetal part of Ibadan (from 43.28% in 1984 to 14.76 in 2014) which could be attributed to anthro- pogenic activities as the vegetated land area lost was been converted to other form of land use. The change was found to be positively correlated to the sur- face temperature intensity over the region with correlation coefficient, r value of 0.9251, 0.8256 and 0.7017 in 1984, 2000 and 2014 respectively. It is recom- mended that Policies should be considered for planting trees, new guidelines for urban landscape design and construction. Keywords Land Surface Temperature (LST), Land Cover Index, Normalized Differential How to cite this paper: Fabeku, B.B., Balo- gun, I.A., Adegboyega, S.A.-A. and Faleyi- mu, O.I. (2018) Spatio-Temporal Variabili- ty in Land Surface Temperature and Its Relationship with Vegetation Types over Ibadan, South-Western Nigeria. Atmos- pheric and Climate Sciences, 8, 318-336. https://doi.org/10.4236/acs.2018.83021 Received: April 5, 2018 Accepted: July 9, 2018 Published: July 12, 2018 Copyright © 2018 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY 4.0). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Open Access