Local Climate Zone (LCZ) map of the São Paulo Metropolitan Region - 2017

Title
LCZ map of the São Paulo Metropolitan Region – 2017

Data Description
This map is part of a PhD research entitled “Vegetation, surface temperature and urban morphology. A portrait of the São Paulo Metropolitan Region”.
The data consists of a shapefile of the São Paulo Metropolitan Region LCZ map of 2017 at 100m and 250mspatial resolution, a QGIS layer setting (.qml) for official color settings and JPG images. The LCZ classification used Landsat scenes and the Local Climate Zone Classification tool available at SAGA GIS version 2.2.0. We used Landsat 8-OLI scenes path 219 row 76 and 77 from 26th July and 15th November 2017.
Projection: EPSG 31983 – Sirgas 2000/ UTM zone 23S.
For more information about the method please refer to:
FERREIRA, L. S. (2019). Vegetação, temperatura de superfície e morfologia urbana: um retrato da região metropolitana de São Paulo. Available at: https://teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/16/16132/tde-02102019-173844/pt-br.php
Classes are represented by numbers as follows:
LCZ 1 (DN 1) - Compact highrise
LCZ 2 (DN 2) - Compact midrise
LCZ 3 (DN 3) - Compact lowrise
LCZ 4 (DN 4) - Open highrise
LCZ 5 (DN 5) - Open midrise
LCZ 6 (DN 6) - Open lowrise
LCZ 8 (DN 8) - Large lowrise
LCZ 9 (DN 9) - Sparsely built
LCZ A (DN 101) - Dense trees
LCZ B (DN 102) - Scattered trees
LCZ C (DN 103) - Bush, scrub
LCZ D (DN 104) - Low plants
LCZ E (DN 105) - Bare rock or paved
LCZ F (DN 106) - Bare soil or sand
LCZ G (DN 107) – Water

LCZ 7 - Lightweight low-rise and LCZ 10 - Heavy Industry were not used due to the lack of significand areas of these categories.

Acknowledgement
This research was supported by the São Paulo Research Foundation – FAPESP (Grants #2015/17360-341 5 and #2016/02825-5) and by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development – 342 CNPq (Productivity Grant 309669/2015-4).