Agenda:

• “Challenges of global SUHI analysis ” by Professor Benjamin Bechtel (Ruhr-University Bochum)

Benjamin Bechtel holds a professorship in Urban Climatology at the Department of Geography, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. Before he was a Research Associate with the Cluster of Excellence CliSAP, University of Hamburg. His research interests include crowdsourcing and urban remote sensing, in particular, the characterization of urban surfaces and thermal remote sensing for applications in urban climatology. Dr. Bechtel received the dissertation award 2013 for physical geography of the Verband der Geographen an Deutschen Hochschulen (VGDH) for his Ph.D. thesis on “Remote sensing of urban canopy parameters for enhanced modelling and climate-related classification of urban structures”; his habilitation was on “Advancements in urban- and topoclimatic observations and modelling – Remote Sensing, Crowd-Sourcing and Data Fusion”. He serves as a board member of the International Association for Urban Climate, as a steering committee member of the Belgian research project REACT, Associate Editor for Frontiers in Remote Sensing, and as a reviewer and guest editor for several international journals and funding agencies.

• “(In)complete urban surface temperatures ” by Professor James Voogt (University of Western Ontario)

James Voogt is a Professor in the Department of Geography and Environment at the University of Western Ontario, in London, Canada. He is an urban climatologist who specializes in the measurement and modelling of urban surface temperatures. He received his BSc in 1986 from Queen’s University and MSc (1989) and PhD (1995) from the University of British Columbia. He has contributed to research projects on understanding the three dimensional surface temperature of cities, thermal anisotropy over urban areas, the use of remotely sensed surface temperatures in urban climate model evaluation, the climate performance of green roofs, and spatial variations in the heat impacts on urban residents. Dr. Voogt is a past president of the International Association for Urban Climate and a co-author of the text ‘Urban Climates’ published by Cambridge University Press.

• Facilitated Q&A and discussions.

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