Estimation of dense time series of urban air temperatures from multitemporal geostationary satellite data

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 4129-4137

  Bechtel, Benjamin ^a   Wiesner, Sarah ^a   Zakšek, Klemen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Air temperature; Earth observation; Land surface temperature; Remote sensing; Urban areas

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

AIR TEMPERATURE; COMPLEX-COUPLING; EARTH OBSERVATIONS; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; MODEL PERFORMANCE; MULTI-TEMPORAL DATA; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; URBAN AREAS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE; LAND SURFACE; REMOTE SENSING; TIME SERIES; URBAN ATMOSPHERE;

EID: 84920194850     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2014.2322449     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. T. R. Oke, "City size and the urban heat island," Atmos. Environ., vol. 7, pp. 769-779, 1973.
2. D. M. Yow, "Urban heat islands: Observations, impacts, and adaptation," Geogr. Compass, vol. 1, no. 6, pp. 1227-1251, 2007.
3. A. J. Arnfield, "Two decades of urban climate research: A review of turbulence, exchanges of energy and water, and the urban heat island," Int. J. Climatol., vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 1-26, 2003.
4. J. K. S. Ching, "A perspective on urban canopy layer modeling for weather, climate and air quality applications," Urban Clim., vol. 3, pp. 13-39, May 2013.
5. I. Eliasson, "Infrared thermography and urban temperature patterns," Int. J. Remote Sens., vol. 13, pp. 869-879, 1992.
6. K. P. Gallo and T. W. Owen, "Assessment of urban heat Islands: A multi-sensor perspective for the Dallas-Ft. worth, USA region," Geocarto Int., vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 35-41, 1998.
7. Q. Weng, U. Rajasekar, and X. Hu, "Modeling urban heat islands and their relationship with impervious surface and vegetation abundance by using ASTER images," IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., vol. 49, no. 10, pp. 4080-4089, Oct. 2011.
8. B. Feizizadeh and T. Blaschke, "Examining urban heat island relations to land use and air pollution: multiple endmember spectral mixture analysis for thermal remote sensing," IEEE J. Sel. Topics Appl. Earth Observ. Remote Sens., vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 1749-1756, Jun. 2013.
9. A. K. Inamdar, A. French, S. Hook, G. Vaughan, and W. Luckett, "Land surface temperature retrieval at high spatial and temporal resolutions over the southwestern United States," J. Geophys. Res., vol. 113, no. D7, p. D07107, 2008.
10. K. Zakšek and K. Oštir, "Downscaling land surface temperature for urban heat island diurnal cycle analysis," Remote Sens. Environ., vol. 117, pp. 114-124, Feb. 2012.
11. S. Kolios, G. Georgoulas, and C. Stylios, "Achieving downscaling of Meteosat thermal infrared imagery using artificial neural networks," Int. J. Remote Sens., vol. 34, no. 21, pp. 7706-7722, 2013.
12. B. Bechtel, K. Zakšek, and G. Hoshyaripour, "Downscaling land surface temperature in an urban area:Acase study for Hamburg, Germany," Remote Sens., vol. 4, no. 10, pp. 3184-3200, Oct. 2012.
13. B. Bechtel, J. Böhner, K. Zakšek, and S. Wiesner, "Downscaling of diurnal land surface temperature cycles for urban heat island monitoring," in Proc. Joint Urban Remote Sens. Event (JURSE), 2013, pp. 91-94.
14. J. Zhou, Y. Chen, X. Zhang, and W. Zhan, "Modelling the diurnal variations of urban heat islands with multi-source satellite data," Int. J. Remote Sens., vol. 34, no. 21, pp. 7568-7588, 2013.
15. J. V. Vogt, A. A. Viau, and F. Paquet, "Mapping regional air temperature fields using satellite-derived surface skin temperatures," Int. J. Climatol., vol. 17, no. 14, pp. 1559-1579, 1997.
16. A. Benali, A. C. Carvalho, J. P. Nunes, N. Carvalhais, and A. Santos, "Estimating air surface temperature in Portugal using MODIS LST data," Remote Sens. Environ., vol. 124, pp. 108-121, Sep. 2012.
17. S. Emamifar, A. Rahimikhoob, and A. A. Noroozi, "Daily mean air temperature estimation from MODIS land surface temperature products based on M5 model tree," Int. J. Climatol., vol. 33, no. 15, pp. 3174-3181, 2013.
18. Y. Yao and B. Zhang, "MODIS-based estimation of air temperature of the Tibetan Plateau," J. Geogr. Sci., vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 627-640, Aug. 2013.
19. K. Zakšek and M. Schroedter-Homscheidt, "Parameterization of air temperature in high temporal and spatial resolution from a combination of the SEVIRI and MODIS instruments," ISPRS J. Photogramm. Remote Sens., vol. 64, no. 4, pp. 414-421, 2009.
20. L. Prihodko and S. N. Goward, "Estimation of air temperature from remotely sensed surface observations," Remote Sens. Environ., vol. 60, no. 3, pp. 335-346, Jun. 1997.
21. M. Roth, T. R. Oke, and W. J. Emery, "Satellite-derived urban heat islands from three coastal cities and the utilization of such data in urban climatology," Int. J. Remote Sens., vol. 10, no. 11, pp. 1699-1720, 1989.
22. J. A. Voogt and T. R. Oke, "Complete urban surface temperatures," J. Appl. Meteorol., vol. 36, no. 9, pp. 1117-1132, 1997.
23. J. A. Voogt and T. R. Oke, "Thermal remote sensing of urban climates," Remote Sens. Environ., vol. 86, pp. 370-384, 2003.
24. H. Schmid, "Source areas for scalars and scalar fluxes," Bound. Layer Meteorol., vol. 67, no. 3, pp. 293-318, 1994.
25. J. Nichol, "Remote sensing of urban heat islands by day and night," Photogramm. Eng. Remote Sens., vol. 71, no. 5, pp. 613-622, 2005.
26. E. J. Nichol, W. Y. Fung, K. S. Lam, and M. S. Wong, "Urban heat island diagnosis using ASTER satellite images and 'in situ' air temperature," Atmos. Res., vol. 94, pp. 276-284, 2009.
27. R. Fabrizi, S. Bonafoni, and R. Biondi, "Satellite and ground-based sensors for the urban heat island analysis in the city of Rome," Remote Sens., vol. 2, no. 5, pp. 1400-1415, May 2010.
28. R. Fabrizi, A. De Santis, and A. Gomez, "Satellite and ground-based sensors for the Urban Heat Island analysis in the city of Madrid," in Proc. Joint Urban Remote Sens. Event (JURSE), 2011, pp. 349-352.
29. M. Pichierri, S. Bonafoni, and R. Biondi, "Satellite air temperature estimation for monitoring the canopy layer heat island of Milan," Remote Sens. Environ., vol. 127, pp. 130-138, Dec. 2012.
30. Z. Wan and J. Dozier, "A generalized split-window algorithm for retrieving land-surface temperature from space," IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., vol. 34, no. 4, pp. 892-905, Jul. 1996.
31. I. F. Trigo, I. T. Monteiro, F. Olesen, and E. Kabsch, "An assessment of remotely sensed land surface temperature," J. Geophys. Res., vol. 113, no. D17, p. D17108, Sep. 2008.
32. J. A. Dutton, Dynamics of Atmospheric Motion. New York, NY, USA: Dover, 1995.
33. T. R. Oke, Initial Guidance to Obtain Representative Meteorological Observations at Urban Sites. Geneva, Switzerland: World Meteorological Organization, 2004.
34. K. Lengfeld and F. Ament, "Observing local-scale variability of near-surface temperature and humidity using a wireless sensor network," J. Appl. Meteorol. Climatol., vol. 51, no. 1, pp. 30-41, Jan. 2012.
35. M. P. Cresswell, A. P. Morse, M. C. Thomson, and S. J. Connor, "Estimating surface air temperatures, from Meteosat land surface temperatures, using an empirical solar zenith angle model," Int. J. Remote Sens., vol. 20, no. 6, pp. 1125-1132, 1999.
36. J.-D. Jang, A. A. Viau, and F. Anctil, "Neural network estimation of air temperatures from AVHRR data," Int. J. Remote Sens., vol. 25, no. 21, pp. 4541-4554, 2004.
37. K. P. Czajkowski, S. N. Goward, S. J. Stadler, and A. Walz, "Thermal remote sensing of near surface environmental variables: Application over the Oklahoma Mesonet," Prof. Geogr., vol. 52, no. 2, pp. 345-357, 2000.
38. R. Pape and J. Löffler, "Modelling spatio-temporal near-surface temperature variation in high mountain landscapes," Ecol. Model., vol. 178, no. 3-4, pp. 483-501, Nov. 2004.
39. Y.-J. Sun et al., "Air temperature retrieval from remote sensing data based on thermodynamics," Theor. Appl. Climatol., vol. 80,no. 1, pp. 37-48, Feb. 2005.
40. C. Wloczyk, E. Borg, R. Richter, and K. Miegel, "Estimation of instantaneous air temperature above vegetation and soil surfaces from Landsat 7 EMT+ data in northern Germany," Int. J. Remote Sens., vol. 32, no. 24, pp. 9119-9136, 2011.
41. S. Wiesner, "Observing the impact of soils on local urban climate," Ph.D. dissertation, Dept. Geosci., Univ. Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, 2013.
42. I. D. Stewart and T. R. Oke, "Local climate zones for urban temperature studies," Bull. Amer. Meteorol. Soc., vol. 93, no. 12, pp. 1879-1900, Dec. 2012.
43. S. K. Aksakal, "Geometric accuracy investigations of SEVIRI high resolution visible (HRV) level 1.5 imagery," Remote Sens., vol. 5, no. 5, pp. 2475-2491, May 2013.
44. J.-P. Lagouarde et al., "Modelling daytime thermal infrared directional anisotropy over Toulouse city centre," Remote Sens. Environ., vol. 114, no. 1, pp. 87-105, Jan. 2010.
45. W. Zhan et al., "Assessment of thermal anisotropy on remote estimation of urban thermal inertia," Remote Sens. Environ., vol. 123, pp. 12-24, Aug. 2012.