Online Concerns About Urban Heat: Social Media, Temperature, and Urban Form

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F62156489%3A43310%2F25%3A43927352" target="_blank" >RIV/62156489:43310/25:43927352 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/JURSE60372.2025.11075998" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1109/JURSE60372.2025.11075998</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JURSE60372.2025.11075998" target="_blank" >10.1109/JURSE60372.2025.11075998</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Online Concerns About Urban Heat: Social Media, Temperature, and Urban Form
Original language description
Urban residents are especially vulnerable to rising temperatures due to the urban heat island (UHI) effect. Yet, there is limited understanding of if and how they express heat-related concerns and how these responses are influenced by the urban tissue. In this study, we integrated social media data, on-site weather records, and remote sensing data to explore the relationship between heat-related social media content, urban temperatures, and urban form. We collected geolocated Twitter data posted from Mexico City during 2022. In addition, we used weather station air temperature data, and land surface temperature (LST) estimated from MODIS imagery. To represent the urban form of the city, we used the local climate zones (LCZ) classification scheme. Our results reveal an exponential increase in the frequency of heat-related Tweets as air temperatures rise. Furthermore, the proportion of heat-related Tweets is higher in LCZ with urban forms that exhibit elevated LST. These findings show that social media serves as a medium to communicate concerns about urban heat, with these expressions varying according to the urban form and its thermal characteristics.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection
JURSE 2025 - 2025 Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event: Proceedings
ISBN
979-8-3503-7183-3
ISSN
2642-9535
e-ISSN
2642-9535
Number of pages
4
Pages from-to
190-193
Publisher name
IEEE-Institute of Electrical Electronics Engineers
Place of publication
Piscataway
Event location
Tunis
Event date
May 5, 2025
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
UT code for WoS article
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