Land Cover and Land Surface Temperature in the West Bank, Palestine

Table 12

LST for the difference land cover for selected cities.

City	Discontinuous urban fabric		Olive groves		Natural grassland		Irrigated complex cultivation practices		Forest		Continuous urban fabric
	LST value	Area (km^2)	LST value	Area (km^2)	LST value	Area (m^2)	LST value	Area (km^2)	LST value	Area (km^2)	LST value	Area (km^2)
Jenin	43.78	5.53	45.16	0.7619	43.41	0.54	45.09	0.421	42.98	0.3400	42.14	1.184
Qalqilia	41.01	2.80	42.87	0.6683	44.57	0.07	41.85	—	—	0.0000	40.86	0.668
Salfit	42.26	2.36	43.14	0.6250	44.60	0.03	—	—	41.30	0.0022	—	0.000
Nablus	42.81	10.19	42.04	1.5214	45.27	3.96	—	—	45.74	0.2901	42.21	2.069
Tubas	45.39	2.36	47.05	0.3431	48.66	0.41	48.65	0.083	44.47	0.0230	—	0.000
Jericho	48.57	6.18	—	0.0000	—	0.00	49.95	4.181	—	0.0000	48.51	0.232
Tulkarem	37.30	6.71	33.70	2.3436	44.41	1.21	40.44	4.607	41.66	0.0025	39.94	0.420