Assessing urban heat island patterns in Bharatpur metropolitan city of Nepal using multi-temporal remote sensing and machine learning
Rapid urbanization in Nepal’s Terai is driving Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) change and intensifying the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect. This study quantifies UHI dynamics in Bharatpur Metropolitan City (BMC), Nepal, across six reference years from 2000 to 2024 using multi-temporal Landsat data in Google Earth Engine...