Downscaling remotely sensed land surface temperatures: A comparison of typical methods

Yaogan Xuebao/Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 361-387

  Quan, Jinling ^a   Zhan, Wenfeng ^a   Chen, Yunhao ^a   Liu, Wenyu ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

CO RMSE; Downscaling; Land surface temperature; Scale factor

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872447260     PISSN: 10074619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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