Comparison of satellite-derived land surface temperature and air temperature from meteorological stations on the pan-arctic scale

Remote Sensing

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 2348-2367

  Urban, Marcel ^a   Eberle, Jonas ^a   Hüttich, Christian ^a   Schmullius, Christiane ^a   Herold, Martin ^b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

AATSR; Air temperature; AVHRR; GLC2000; Land surface temperature; MODIS; Pan arctic

Indexed keywords

AATSR; AIR TEMPERATURE; AVHRR; GLC2000; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; MODIS; PAN-ARCTIC;

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETERS (AVHRR); CLIMATE CHANGE; METEOROLOGY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TIME SERIES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84880354319     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs5052348     Document Type: Article

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