Constructing the STURLA classification
We constructed a 120 m grid aligned to the Landsat surface temperature
dataset and derived STURLA classes as the presence of all land cover and
building height types that fell within each grid cell. Following
Hamstead et al. (2016) we used a zonal statistics tabulate area
operation to compute the area of each land cover or building height
category within each cell. Finally, we generated and assigned a STURLA
class variable for each grid cell.