| Abbreviations | Definition |
| LST | Land Surface Temperature |
| NDVI | Normalized Difference Vegetation Index |
| FVC | Fractional Vegetation Coverage |
| UHI | Urban Heat Island |
| S1, S2, …, S12 | Sample areas selected from study area in Figure 1 |
| P1, P2, P3, P4 | Period 1, 2, 3, 4, represents 25 May, 10 June, 28 July, 29 August, 2017, respectively. |
| NP | Number of Patches |
| LPI | Largest patch index |
| ENN_MN | Euclidean nearest neighbor distance_Mean |
| SHEI | Shannon’s evenness index |
| SPLIT | Splitting index |
| CONTAG | Contagion index |
| AI | Aggregation index |
| CV | Coefficient of variation |
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