Green Roof Urban Heat Island Mitigation Dataset for Downtown Iowa City, Iowa (Airborne LiDAR + Satellite Rasters)

This dataset contains 11 GeoTIFF raster files supporting the study "Exploring the Cooling Potential of Green Roofs for Mitigating Urban Heat Islands Using LiDAR, Satellite Remote Sensing, and Spatial Convolutional Neural Networks: A Case Study of Downtown Iowa City, Iowa." Study area: Downtown Iowa City, Iowa, USA (41.66°N, 91.53°W)Spatial resolution: 30 m × 30 mProjection: WGS 1984 UTM Zone 15N (EPSG:32615)Primary scene: Landsat 9 — July 20, 2023 Files included:- DLST_IowaCity_20230720.tif — Daytime LST, July 20, 2023 (primary)- DLST_IowaCity_20230704.tif — Daytime LST, July 4, 2023- NDVI_July20_IowaCity.tif — Normalized Difference Vegetation Index- NDBI_July20_IowaCity.tif — Normalized Difference Built-up Index- WBD_30m.tif — Water body distance (Iowa River)- BH_30m.tif — Building height (LiDAR-derived)- BRI_30m.tif — Building roof index (LiDAR-derived)- BVD_30m.tif — Building volume density (LiDAR-derived)- SR_30m.tif — Area solar radiation (LiDAR-derived)- SVF_30m.tif — Sky view factor (LiDAR-derived)- Final_CNN_GR_Reduction.tif — Simulated DLST reduction after green roof implementation