NOAA Urban Heat Island Mapping

Storymap Data

This notebook utilizes data featured in NOAA's "Urban Heat Island mapping campaign cities" project.

NOAA makes available datasets for a selection of US cities from their 2017, 2018 and 2019 campaigns as map services, allowing us to create dynamic, interactive, intelligent maps.

Predicted afternoon (3PM), morning (6AM), and evening (7PM) ambient temperatures or heat indexes where available. The data retrieved from sensors was analyzed using a machine-learning algorithm that also incorporates local data and satellite imagery. The resulting maps show heat distribution for the entire city.

Traverses that were conducted by volunteer community citizens by mounting sensor equipment on the car and driving the designated routes at 7 a.m., 3 p.m., and 7 p.m. on a hot, clear day. These sensors tracked GPS location, temperature, and humidity at one-second intervals throughout each one-hour traverse. After completion, sensors were shipped back to the CAPA team for analysis.

This is intended to be a collaborative notebook.

The motivation for creating this notebook comes from our recent conversation, "Data Science for Environmental Research (and Advocacy)". All the heavy lifting getting these data layers to render is thanks to @mootari, who generously invested several hours into debugging (and being sucessful).

You may see a ton of errors and no map if you're viewing from a work computer (or anything imposing an additional proxy between your requests). Fabian figured out a way around this, but I haven't (yet) managed to apply the lessons to all layers. Sorry about that! If you're interested to see the maps in this notebook but you're seeing some red error messsages, your best bet for now would be to find a different machine / device.

Boston, MA

Morning (6 am) - https://gis.nnvl.noaa.gov/arcgis/rest/services/HINDX/Boston_morning_heat_index/ImageServer

Afternoon (3 pm) - https://gis.nnvl.noaa.gov/arcgis/rest/services/HINDX/Boston_afternoon_heat_index/ImageServer

Evening (7 pm) - https://gis.nnvl.noaa.gov/arcgis/rest/services/HINDX/Boston_evening_heat_index/ImageServer

Traverses - Feature layers

https://gis.nnvl.noaa.gov/arcgis/rest/services/HINDX/Boston_morning_traverses/MapServer/0

Morning (6 am) - https://gis.nnvl.noaa.gov/arcgis/rest/services/HINDX/Boston_morning_traverses/MapServer

Afternoon (3 pm) - https://gis.nnvl.noaa.gov/arcgis/rest/services/HINDX/Boston_afternoon_traverses/MapServer

Evening (7 pm) - https://gis.nnvl.noaa.gov/arcgis/rest/services/HINDX/Boston_evening_traverses/MapServer

Helpers

thanks @mootari!