Heat risk map for the city of São Paulo

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Heat risk map for the city of São Paulo

This dataset is part of a PhD research entitled "Urban heating, lack of green and lack of space: proposals for urban redesign to adapt to climate change at the microscale in the city of São Paulo", and of a research internship abroad entitled "Urban heating, lack of green and lack of space: proposal of a new green factor for the city of São Paulo".

*General Details
This dataset includes three itens: a folder containing the shapefile spatializing heat risk within the urbanized areas in the city of São Paulo; a QGIS layer setting (.qml) for official color settings and scale of values; and a TIFF image.
The map was developed at the census tract scale (26506 urban tracts were mapped) and based on different sources of data (LANDSAT 8/9 OLI/TIRS images and several other geodata). All the details can be consulted in Muñoz et al. (2025).
Everything was processed using QGIS LTR 3.28.11 and the projection EPSG 31983 – SIRGAS 2000/ UTM zone 23S.

**For more information about the method please refer to:
Muñoz, L. S., Duarte, D. H. S., & Emmanuel, R. (2025). Heat risk in the city of São Paulo: Interactions between SUHI and social inequality. Urban Climate, 63, 102568. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2025.102568. Available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212095525002846

Acknowledgements:

This work was supported by the Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) - grants #2021/04751–7, #2023/03279–8, #2022/08401–3, #2021/11762–5 and #2020/06694–8, by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development, CNPq - grant #312592/2021–3, and by Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) - grant #88881.688962/2022–01.