EVALUATING THERMAL COMFORT IN CITY LIFE AND ITS RELATION TO SOCIO-ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES

摘要

In this study, we developed methods for calculating Wet Bulb Globe Temperature (WBGT) and Wind Chill Temperature (WCT) from Multi-functional Transport Satellite(MTSAT) data (IR1-IR2). and tried to improve the methods, so that we can evaluate thermal comfort in Asia-Pacific region by satellite remote sensing in near real time,As a result, it was found that our WBGT formula could express the tendency of WBGT change and detect the risk value (WBGT over 25). That enabled making thermal comfort image mappings in 4km resolution. About formula of WCT,we needed further study to get accuracy.In addition, as one of the indices of socio economic activity, we examined the relationship between WBGT and GDP per capita of each country in this study. As a result it was found that high WBGT countries tend to have low GDP per capita. From this research, hourly evaluation of thermal comfort in whole hot area and its visualization became possible, and the database from this calculation would be useful in analyses about relationships between thermal comfort and socio economic activities.