Downscaling geostationary land surface temperature imagery for urban analysis

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1253-1257

  Keramitsoglou, Iphigenia ^a   Kiranoudis, Chris T ^b   Weng, Qihao ^c  

^a NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Boosting; Earth observing system; support vector regression machines (SVR); temperature measurement; urban areas

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED-ALONG TRACK SCANNING RADIOMETERS; BOOSTING; EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEMS; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; METEOSAT SECOND GENERATIONS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; SUPPORT VECTOR REGRESSION MACHINES; URBAN AREAS;

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETERS (AVHRR); GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84879983808     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2013.2257668     Document Type: Article

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