Research Article
AnalysisofLandSurfaceTemperatureEvolutionBasedon
RegionalRoadScope
FabaoLiu ,
1
XingliJia ,
1
WenbinLi,
2
AoDu,
1
andDangWang
1
1
School of Highway, Chang’an University, Xi’an 710064, China
2
Shaanxi Ankang Highway Management Bureau, Ankang 725000, China
Correspondence should be addressed to Xingli Jia; jiaxingli@chd.edu.cn
Received 7 February 2020; Revised 8 June 2020; Accepted 10 June 2020; Published 12 August 2020
Academic Editor: Valeria Vignali
Copyright © 2020 Fabao Liu et al. is is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License,
which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
To balance sustainable road construction and environmental impact, intrinsic relationships between regional road networks and
land surface temperature (LST) along the roads must be examined. In this study, we hypothesize that expanding road networks
can affect the LST within a given region. us, we determined the influence of varying road grades on the surrounding LST. Using
an improved single-window algorithm with reasonably adjusted water vapor parameters, LST data for the relevant areas were
extracted from Landsat 8 data. Analyzing these data revealed that, in the improved single-window algorithm, the MOD05 L2 water
vapor parameter could obtain results, indicating that road grades are positively correlated with LST changes when road network
mileage is increased. In addition, we found that LST was increased by highways and low-grade roads over distances of 180 m and
150 m compared with the surrounding area, respectively. Furthermore, LST was affected by road interchanges over a distance of
300 m and by intersections formed by low-grade roads over 150 m; both have a linear nonuniform influence on the propagation
models. Finally, we determined that different highways in the LSTradiation range can interact to form an LSTconcentration zone,
resulting in further LST increases.
1.Introduction
Land surface temperature (LST) is a favorable indicator for
the study of environmental conditions, and the use of LST
indicators as a useful research object in regional energy
change discussion is also increasing [1–5]. As the infra-
structure construction of the strip land, the roads will have
an impact on the LST of the area along the roads due to the
construction of it and the subsequent occupation due to the
land occupation and itself. In addition, with the continuous
development of social needs, the mileage of road networks is
increasing, and the LST within the road’s domain will also
change due to the influence of the road itself, thus affecting
the surrounding environment. At present, most of the
studies on regional LST are to study a large scope of urban
areas [6–8], but there are fewer studies on LST changes
within the road areas.
As an important indicator of environmental change,
most LSTresearchers use it as an important characterization
object for surface energy evolvement and environmental
change [1–5, 9, 10]. However, in addition to the use of real-
time monitoring and measurement methods [11], re-
searchers have made it more convenient to adopt satellite
data to study regional LST [12, 13]. erefore, a large
number of researchers use satellite data for regional LST
analysis, not only from the inversion algorithms to explore
and make improvement but also in the selection of source
data in different aspects of screening. For example, some
researchers have summarized and analyzed several major
LST inversion methods and compared their accuracy
[14, 15]. However, different parameter selection on the
inversion algorithms will also cause differences in accuracy.
For example, some researchers use the split-window algo-
rithm from MODIS product for temperature inversion [16].
As the algorithm is relatively sensitive to the bands 31 and
32, the bare soil parameters are adjusted in the inversion
algorithm, and MODIS data are used to verify the impact of
LST temperature inversion accuracy. However, some studies
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Advances in Civil Engineering
Volume 2020, Article ID 4350787, 15 pages
https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/4350787