Estimation of daily maximum and minimum air temperature using MODIS land surface temperature products

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 130, Issue , 2013, Pages 62-73

  Zhu, Wenbin ^a,b   Lu, Aifeng ^a   Jia, Shaofeng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Air temperature; Land surface temperature; MODIS; NDVI; TVX method

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; MODIS; NDVI; TVX METHOD;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; AQUA (SATELLITE); DIURNAL VARIATION; LAND SURFACE; MODIS; NDVI; SATELLITE DATA; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TERRA (SATELLITE);

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84870820912     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.10.034     Document Type: Article

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