Validation of Land Surface Temperature products derived from the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) using ground-based and heritage satellite measurements

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 154, Issue , 2014, Pages 19-37

  Guillevic, Pierre C ^a   Biard, James C ^b,c   Hulley, Glynn C ^a   Privette, Jeffrey L ^c   Hook, Simon J ^a   Olioso, Albert ^d   Göttsche, Frank M ^e   Radocinski, Robert ^a   Román, Miguel O ^f   Yu, Yunyue ^g   Csiszar, Ivan ^g  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NOAA NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER   (United States)

^d CEMAGREF   (France)

^e KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^f NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^g NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ground based measurements; Land Surface Temperature; MODIS; Validation; VIIRS

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; ERRORS; INFRARED IMAGING; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

GROUND BASED MEASUREMENT; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; MODIS; VALIDATION; VIIRS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CLIMATE MODELING; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LAND COVER; LAND SURFACE; MODIS; NADIR; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; ALGORITHM; HETEROGENEITY; SEMIARID REGION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VISIBLE SPECTRUM; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 84906837441     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2014.08.013     Document Type: Article

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