Discrepancy between ASTER- and MODIS- derived land surface temperatures: Terrain effects

Sensors

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 1054-1066

  Liu, Yuanbo ^a,b   Noumi, Yousuke ^b   Yamaguchi, Yasushi ^c  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

ASTER; Land surface temperature; MODIS; Surface emissivity; Terrain effects

Indexed keywords

ASTER; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; MODIS; SURFACE EMISSIVITY; TERRAIN EFFECT;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; LANDFORMS; NASA; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

RADIOMETERS;

EID: 63849343528     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s90201054     Document Type: Article

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