A practical split-window algorithm for retrieving land surface temperature from Landsat-8 data and a case study of an urban area in China

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 4371-4390

  Jin, Meijun ^a   Li, Junming ^b,c   Wang, Caili ^d   Shang, Ruilan ^c  

^a TAIYUAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

^c Shanxi Administration of Surveying Mapping and Geoinformation   (China)

^d HENAN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Land surface emissivity (LSE); Land surface temperature (LST); Landsat 8; Split window algorithm (SWA)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; ERRORS; INFRARED DETECTORS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

ATMOSPHERIC TRANSMITTANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL EVOLUTION; LAND SURFACE; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; LANDSAT; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SPLIT WINDOW ALGORITHMS; THERMAL INFRARED SENSORS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84937919945     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70404371     Document Type: Article

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