Downscaling Land Surface Temperature in an Urban Area: A Case Study for Hamburg, Germany

Remote Sensing

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 3184-3200

  Bechtel, Benjamin ^a   Zakšek, Klemen ^a,b   Hoshyaripour, Gholamali ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b Centre of Excellence SPACE SI   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Downscaling; Hamburg; Land surface temperature; Urban heat island

Indexed keywords

BUILDING BLOCKES; DOWN-SCALING; HAMBURG; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION IMAGES; HIGH TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; LOWER RESOLUTION; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; URBAN AREAS; URBAN HEAT ISLAND;

GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; REMOTE SENSING;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84869237416     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs4103184     Document Type: Article

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