Air temperature estimation with MSG-SEVIRI data: Calibration and validation of the TVX algorithm for the Iberian Peninsula

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 107-116

  Nieto, Héctor ^a,b   Sandholt, Inge ^b   Aguado, Inmaculada ^a   Chuvieco, Emilio ^a   Stisen, Simon ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Air temperature; Land Surface Temperature; MSG SEVIRI; NDVI; TVX algorithm

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; MSG-SEVIRI; NDVI; TVX ALGORITHM;

ALGORITHMS; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE PROPERTIES; VEGETATION;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIR TEMPERATURE; ALGORITHM; CALIBRATION; DATA SET; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; HETEROGENEITY; LAND SURFACE; LANDSCAPE; LITERATURE REVIEW; NDVI; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TOPOGRAPHY; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION TYPE; WAVELENGTH;

SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 77958109035     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2010.08.010     Document Type: Article

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