A comparative study of land surface temperature retrieval methods from remote sensing data

Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 59-73

  Benmecheta, A ^a   Abdellaoui, A ^a   Hamou, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST CRÉTEIL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ORAN   (Algeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDIES; COMPUTATIONAL ALGORITHM; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE RETRIEVALS; REMOTE SENSING DATA; SEPARATION ALGORITHMS; SINGLE-CHANNEL ALGORITHMS; TWO-CHANNEL ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; EXTRACTION;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 84878042714     PISSN: 07038992     EISSN: 17127971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5589/m13-008     Document Type: Article

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