Validation and performance evaluations of methods for estimating land surface temperatures from ASTER data in the middle reach of the Heihe River Basin, Northwest China

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 7126-7156

  Zhou, Ji ^a,b   Li, Mingsong ^a   Liu, Shaomin ^b   Jia, Zhenzhen ^b   Ma, Yanfei ^b  

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

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

ASTER; Atmospheric profile; Heihe River basin (HRB); Land surface emissivity (LSE); Land surface temperature (LST); Performance evaluation; Validation

Indexed keywords

MEAN SQUARE ERROR; RIVERS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE PROPERTIES; WATERSHEDS;

ASTER; ATMOSPHERIC PROFILE; HEIHE RIVER BASIN; LAND SURFACE; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; VALIDATION;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84930025990     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70607126     Document Type: Article

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