Disaggregation of remotely sensed land surface temperature: A generalized paradigm

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 5952-5965

  Chen, Yunhao ^a   Zhan, Wenfeng ^b,c   Quan, Jinling ^a   Zhou, Ji ^d   Zhu, Xiaolin ^e   Sun, Hao ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^e OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disaggregation; generalized paradigm; land surface temperature (LST); temperature unmixing (TUM); thermal remote sensing; thermal sharpening (TSP)

Indexed keywords

REMOTE SENSING; UTILITY TRUCKS;

DISAGGREGATION; GENERALIZED PARADIGMS; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; THERMAL REMOTE SENSING; THERMAL SHARPENING (TSP); UNMIXING;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

DATA QUALITY; ENERGY BALANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; IMAGE PROCESSING; LAND SURFACE; LINEAR PROGRAMING; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE ENERGY; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84900790283     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2294031     Document Type: Article

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