The Colombo is the main commercial metropolitan city in Sri Lanka with having highest population and building density, making the city is more ideal place to form Urban Heat Islands. This study was conducted to ...

Urban Heat Island (UHI) is a metropolitan area where the temperature is several degrees higher than surrounding rural areas. In the context of UHI phenomenon, Land Surface Temperature (LST) was estimated using Landsat ...

This study examines Colombo’s heat island effect due to rapid development, with factors including urbanisation, reduced vegetation, increased energy use, heat-absorbing surfaces, and waste heat. Urban expansion absorbs and ...