Presentation: Digital Traces of Urban Heat: Social Media, Temperature, and Urban Morphology
On 5 May 2025, Richard Lemoine-Rodríguez from our Geolingual Studies team presented a compelling study titled "Digital Traces of Urban Heat: Social Media, Temperature, and Urban Morphology", at the Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event (JURSE) in Tunis, Tunisia. His research demonstrates that social media content generated by urban residents is both temporally and spatially correlated with air temperature, land surface temperature, and urban morphology. The study highlights how integrating heterogeneous datasets—including remote sensing imagery and user-generated content—enables researchers to incorporate humans as sensors, offering a richer, more nuanced understanding of urban environments that extends beyond traditional physical descriptions in remote sensing.
See more about Richard's research on urban climate, urban morphology and urban discourses on the following links:
