Maitland Urban Heat Study

This dataset holds results from an urban heat study conducted in Maitland LGA using data collect from the summer of 2019/20 and Australian Bureau of Statistics 2016 dataset. Maitland City Council undertook this urban heat mapping project to identify priority suburbs within the LGA to inform targeted initiatives to mitigate the heat island effect.Data is aggregated by the ABS to the area of a Statistical Area Level 2 (SA2) for the following variables:Land surface temperatures (LST) for summer 2019Normalised Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI)Heat Vulnerability Scores (5 is most vulnerable)