Maitland Urban Heat Hotspots

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.For the purposes of this study, hot spots were defined as Local surface temperatures (LST) greater than the mean LST within the urban zone. Each hotspot was categorised by the associated land use of the area.