ANN	Artificial Neural Network
B10	Band 10 (in remote sensing, it refers to a specific spectral band of the satellite sensor)
B6	Band 6 (similar to above, another specific spectral band)
DEM	Digital Elevation Model
ETM	Enhanced Thematic Mapper (a sensor onboard Landsat satellites)
GBM	Gradient Boosting Machine (a machine learning algorithm)
GEE	Google Earth Engine
GIS	Geographic Information System
GWR	Geographically Weighted Regression
LST	Land Surface Temperature
LULC	Land Use Land Cover
ML	Machine Learning
MODIS	Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
NDBI	Normalized Difference Built-up Index
NDVI	Normalized Difference Vegetation Index
NDWI	Normalized Difference Water Index
NIR	Near Infrared (a type of light invisible to the human eye, used in remote sensing)
OLI	Operational Land Imager (a sensor onboard Landsat satellites)
R2	Coefficient of determination
RF	Random Forest
RMSE	Root Mean Square Error
SHAP	SHapley Additive exPlanations
SRTM	Shuttle Radar Topography Mission
SUHI	Surface Urban Heat Island
SVM	Support Vector Machine
SWIR	Shortwave Infrared (a specific region of the infrared spectrum used in remote sensing)
TIRS	Thermal Infrared Sensor (a sensor onboard Landsat satellites)
TM	Thematic Mapper (a sensor onboard Landsat satellites)
UHI	Urban Heat Island
UHS	Urban Heat Sink
UNESCO	United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization