While the data does show heat changes occurred during the pandemic, further study is required to ensure the true source of where the heat changes come via a classification of features sources for the change detection between those years. The lack of consistency between 2019 and 2020 for March and April begs for further explanation for a change in features between those time periods.  The data coverage was not overlayed to match the exact locations which could have also altered the results; since there already is not an even spread of heat across the area. Measures to reduce the heat due to lock down seem to have occurred with the difference in vegetation showing a decrease for March but an increase for April, this shows that further study is required even though it is proven what the correlations between heat reduction and features are.

 

Proper classification is still required to quantify the changes but a lack of strict lockdown when properly classified could account for inconsistent changes. Also, the fact that Landsat data was not available for the exact same days as the temperatures, could also cause a deviation from the actual results. New York, in the subsequent future, could be analyzed to validate the possible changes that should be expected since that state may be enacting another lockdown due to the covid variants circulating.  Some key details involving band ratioing and maybe some Ground Penetrative Radars could be employed in classifying heat transfer anomalies in buildings, and roads (nanotechnology) to properly quantify the amount of heat exhausted by different materials and to better classify features. However, a city needs to function with a base amount of heat to monitor cracks in roads and buildings with the use of nanotechnology for instance.  Since the areas unaccounted for are measurable, construction companies can play a role in heat reduction/management; if not by planting more trees in the city but by instituting the use of reflective roofing, and reducing the thickness of roofs in neighborhoods that do not benefit from that.  A pandemic is still motivation enough to institute some of these changes and they will be closely monitored as time progresses.  

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