**Acknowledgements**

The results presented in this Chapter form part of the research project "Study of the Phe‐ nomenon of Urban Heat Island in Cyprus", funded by the Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation of Cyprus, under contract No. AEIFORIA/ASTI/0308(BE)/01. Cyprus Meteoro‐ logical Service is kindly acknowledged for the provision of the meteorological data. MODIS LST data were distributed by the Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC), located at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Earth Resources Observation and Sci‐ ence (EROS) Center (lpdaac.usgs.gov).

## **Author details**

Diofantos G. Hadjimitsis1 , Adrianos Retalis2 , Silas Michaelides3 , Filippos Tymvios3 , Dimitrios Paronis2 , Kyriacos Themistocleous1 and Athos Agapiou1

1 Cyprus University of Technology, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Department of Civil Engineering and Geomatics, Remote Sensing and Geo-Environment Laboratory, Cy‐ prus

2 National Observatory of Athens, Greece

3 Cyprus Meteorological Service, Cyprus
