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This article investigates specific environmental degradation processes driven by climate and land use changes. These changes significantly influence the surface energy balance, leading to increased aridity in rural environments and the urban heat island (UHI) effect in urban areas. Land Surface Temperature (LST), a key variable influencing the surface energy balance, serves as a crucial indicator for monitoring these degradation phenomena. Aridity represents a significant risk in Italy, with the National Atlas of areas at risk of desertification reporting 51.8% of the territory as potentially vulnerable, particularly the Southern and Central Italian regions. A primary consequence is reduced soil fertility due to the loss of organic matter and carbon. This degradation can lead to desertification, consequently increasing the demand for nutrients and irrigation to sustain agricultural productivity, thus exerting greater pressure on natural resources. The UHI effect is a major challenge in contemporary urban planning, negatively affecting the comfort and health of city dwellers. Since LST is a key indicator for both aridity/desertification and UHI, this article focuses on methods for its estimation and application. A significant advantage of LST is its relatively inexpensive determination over vast areas (land-scape scale) using remote sensing. The article provides a critical review of methodologies for LST retrieval from satellite data. The contribution of this paper is twofold: it underscores the importance of the integrated analysis of urban and rural landscapes through climate-related processes, unified by the LST indicator, which can be determined efficiently via remote sensing, particularly using imagery from Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS). Furthermore, while the scientific literature offers numerous solutions addressing the impacts of climate change on soils or urban climates separately, the potential for integrated analysis of these interconnected processes is less investigated. This paper aims to contribute to filling this gap. Consequently, the research seeks to advance the integrated and holistic planning of urban and rural landscapes.

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Environmental Processes Related to Soil Temperature: Problems and Analysis Methodologies

  • 会议论文

  • 发表日期：

    2026年

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  • Francesca Miccoli,
  • Antonio Leone

摘要

This article investigates specific environmental degradation processes driven by climate and land use changes. These changes significantly influence the surface energy balance, leading to increased aridity in rural environments and the urban heat island (UHI) effect in urban areas. Land Surface Temperature (LST), a key variable influencing the surface energy balance, serves as a crucial indicator for monitoring these degradation phenomena. Aridity represents a significant risk in Italy, with the National Atlas of areas at risk of desertification reporting 51.8% of the territory as potentially vulnerable, particularly the Southern and Central Italian regions. A primary consequence is reduced soil fertility due to the loss of organic matter and carbon. This degradation can lead to desertification, consequently increasing the demand for nutrients and irrigation to sustain agricultural productivity, thus exerting greater pressure on natural resources. The UHI effect is a major challenge in contemporary urban planning, negatively affecting the comfort and health of city dwellers. Since LST is a key indicator for both aridity/desertification and UHI, this article focuses on methods for its estimation and application. A significant advantage of LST is its relatively inexpensive determination over vast areas (land-scape scale) using remote sensing. The article provides a critical review of methodologies for LST retrieval from satellite data. The contribution of this paper is twofold: it underscores the importance of the integrated analysis of urban and rural landscapes through climate-related processes, unified by the LST indicator, which can be determined efficiently via remote sensing, particularly using imagery from Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS). Furthermore, while the scientific literature offers numerous solutions addressing the impacts of climate change on soils or urban climates separately, the potential for integrated analysis of these interconnected processes is less investigated. This paper aims to contribute to filling this gap. Consequently, the research seeks to advance the integrated and holistic planning of urban and rural landscapes.