Rajashree Kotharkar
Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology
34 Papers
67 Citations
Rajashree Kotharkar is an academic researcher from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Urban heat island & Urban planning. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 23 publications.
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Papers
Evaluating urban heat island in the critical local climate zones of an Indian city
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors aim at measuring canopy layer heat island (CLHI) in a compact city of Nagpur, India using local climate zone (LCZ) classification.
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Urban Heat Island studies in South Asia: A critical review
TL;DR: A review of 85 original research publications from peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings in last five decades, covering 28 representative South Asian cities, revealed that Delhi, Chennai and Colombo were most frequently studied and satellite imagery based thermal mapping was used predominantly.
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Land Use, Land Cover, and Population Density Impact on the Formation of Canopy Urban Heat Islands through Traverse Survey in the Nagpur Urban Area, India
TL;DR: In this article, an observational study that explored the impact of land use/land cover, and population density on the formation of canopy UHI in Nagpur has been conducted, where the authors compared the canopy hotspots and heat sinks with respect to urban land use and land cover.
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Local Climate Zone classification for Indian cities: A case study of Nagpur
TL;DR: In this article, a case of Nagpur city from India has been taken and the issues pertaining to the identification and classification of local climate zone (LCZ) by taking a case from India and explains the various stages involved in the mapping and issues confronted while delineating the LCZs.
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Measuring Compact Urban Form: A Case of Nagpur City, India
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored various parameters and dimensions of measurement of compactness for the study of Nagpur city, India and derived the urban form characteristics and their indicators for the purpose of determining the benefits of the compact city form.