Spatiotemporal Characteristics of Urban Surface Temperature and Its Relationship with Landscape Metrics and Vegetation Cover in Rapid Urbanization Region

Table 4

The linear regression and correlation coefficients among LST, NDVI, and FVC.

	2000		2006		2014
	NDVI	FVC	NDVI	FVC	NDVI	FVC
LST	y = −1.03 + 0.69; R^2: 0.55; r: −0.56^∗∗	y = −71.35x + 38.87; R^2: 0.85; r: −0.79^∗∗	y = −0.31x + 0.64; R^2: 0.64; r: −0.63^∗∗	y = −93.93x + 36.44; R^2: 0.73; r: −0.82^∗∗	y = −0.32x + 0.64; R^2: 0.72; r: −0.49^∗∗	y = −138.84x + 37.91; R^2: 0.84; r = −0.81^∗∗

Note: y denotes LST; x denotes FVC and NDVI; r denotes correlation coefficient; ^∗∗Correlation denotes significancee at the 0.01 level.