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To improve land use efficiency, urban renewal must also consider urban microclimates and heat islands. Existing research has depended on manual interpretation of high-resolution optical satellite imagery to resolve land surface temperature (LST) changes caused by urban renewal; however, the acquired ground time series data tend to be uneven and unique to specific frameworks. The objective of this study was to establish a more general framework to study LST changes caused by urban renewal using multi-source remote sensing data. Specifically, urban renewal areas during 2007–2017 were obtained by integrating Landsat and yearly Phased Array type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (PALSAR) images, and LST was retrieved from Landsat thermal infrared data using the generalized single-channel algorithm. Our results showed that urban renewal land (URL) area accounted for 1.88% of urban land area. Relative LST between URL and general urban land (GUL) of Liwan, Yuexiu, Haizhu, and Tianhe districts dropped by 0.88, 0.42, 0.43, and 0.10 K, respectively, whereas those of Baiyun, Huangpu, Panyu, and Luogang districts presented opposite characteristics, with a rise in the LST of 0.98, 1.03, 1.63, and 2.11 K, respectively. These results are attributable to population density, building density, and landscape pattern changes during the urban renewal process.

A robust coordination approach for the controller design of multiple high-voltage direct-current (HVDC) and flexible ac transmission systems (FACTS) wide-area controls (WACs) is presented in this paper and has the aim of stabilizing multiple interarea oscillation modes in large-scale power systems. The suitable wide-area control signals, which are given to HVDC and FACTS wide-area controllers, respectively, are chosen from a large number of candidate items. Then, a sequential robust design approach is planned for the wide-area controller coordination of HVDC and FACTS devices. This approach is based on the robust control theory and is formulated as a standard problem of multiobjective mixed H 2 H output-feedback control with regional pole placement constraints. The linear matrix inequality (LMI) theory is applied to solve such a robust control problem. A case study on the 16-machine 5-area system, which is modified with one HVDC interconnected transmission, one shunt-FACTS device (SVC), and one series-FACTS device (TCSC), is performed to validate the robust performance in terms of multiple oscillations damping under various operating conditions.Index Terms-Controller coordination, flexible AC transmission systems (FACTS), high-voltage direct current (HVDC), interarea oscillations, linear matrix inequality (LMI), robust control, widearea control (WAC).

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Studies of the spatial extent of surface urban heat island (SUHI or UHISurf) effects require precise determination of the footprint (FP) boundary. Currently available methods overestimate or underestimate the SUHI FP boundary, and can even alter its morphology, due to theoretical limitations on the ability of their algorithms to accurately determine the impacts of the shape, topography, and landscape heterogeneity of the city. The key to determining the FP boundary is identifying background temperatures in reference rural regions. Due to the instability of remote sensing data, these background temperatures should be determined automatically rather than manually, to eliminate artificial bias. To address this need, we developed an algorithm that adequately represents the decay of land surface temperature (LST) from the urban center to surrounding rural regions, and automatically calculates thresholds for reference rural LSTs in all directions based on a logistic curve. In this study, we applied this algorithm with data from the Aqua Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (Aqua/MODIS) 8-day level 3 (L3) LST global grid product to delineate precise SUHI FPs for the Beijing metropolitan area during the summers of 2004–2018 and determine the interannual and diurnal variations in FP boundaries and their relationship with SUHI intensity.

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