Downscaling AVHRR land surface temperatures for improved surface urban heat island intensity estimation

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 113, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2592-2605

  Stathopoulou, Marina ^a   Cartalis, Constantinos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

AVHRR; Downscaling; LST; SUHI intensity; Urban area

Indexed keywords

AVHRR; DOWNSCALING; LST; SUHI INTENSITY; URBAN AREA;

HEAT FLUX; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LANDFORMS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SPACE TIME ADAPTIVE PROCESSING; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AVHRR; DOWNSCALING; HEAT ISLAND; LAND COVER; LAND SURFACE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL VARIATION; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; URBAN AREA;

ATHENS [ATTICA]; ATTICA; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 70349968086     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2009.07.017     Document Type: Article

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