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Surface and ground air temperatures are one of the variables that best distinguish and characterize the specific climate in urbanized spaces. Over the years, research has shown that urbanized spaces have experienced persistently higher temperatures, which is defined as the urban heat island effect (Urban Heat Island-UHI). Wind turbines and solar panels are two of the main types of renewable energy sources used in Bulgaria. The presence of too many different facilities related to renewable energy sources often has an impact, but sometimes this impact can be negative for specific territories even if they are not highly urbanized, such as the selected territory in Western Pontic steppes, North-Еast Planning Region (BG33). The study covers examples from the planning region defined in the Law on Regional Development of the Republic of Bulgaria under Art. 11, which will support the Integrated Territorial Strategy for the Development of NUTS 2 planning district. These are territories whose selection is determined by the fact that they have extremely high economic and ecological importance for monitoring the normal course of natural processes, disasters and consequences of sudden changes. The aim of the research is to create a methodology for monitoring through a complex approach, to be used by experts and non-experts, in order to make decisions for the management of the territories occupied with renewable energy sources. Different indicators and indices from the optical range, such as Normalized Differential Greenness Index (NDGI), Tasseled Cap Transformation (TCT), Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and Land Surface Temperature (LST), were used for the different groups of objects. The spectral reflectance characteristics of natural and anthropogenic objects have been used to classify temperatures. Open data, data from the National Spatial Data Portal (Inspire). Orthophoto and aircraft images from 100 years ago were used for the needs of the methodology.
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