Comparison of in-situ, aircraft, and satellite land surface temperature measurements over a NOAA Climate Reference Network site

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 165, Issue , 2015, Pages 249-264

  Krishnan, Praveena ^a,b   Kochendorfer, John ^a   Dumas, Edward J ^a,b   Guillevic, Pierre C ^c   Baker, C Bruce ^a   Meyers, Tilden P ^a   Martos, Borja ^d  

^a NOAA Air Resources Laboratory Silver Spring   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE ASSOCIATED UNIVERSITIES   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE SPACE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aircraft; Land surface temperature; MODIS; Satellite; USCRN; Validation

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; COMPLEX NETWORKS; FIGHTER AIRCRAFT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; NASA; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SATELLITES; STATISTICS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TOWERS;

BIOSPHERE-ATMOSPHERE INTERFACE; EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEM SATELLITES; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; MODIS; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL VARIABILITY; USCRN; VALIDATION;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIR TEMPERATURE; AIRCRAFT; AQUA (SATELLITE); CLEAR SKY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENERGY FLUX; EOS; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; LAND SURFACE; MICROMETEOROLOGY; MODEL VALIDATION; MODIS; NOAA SATELLITE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TERRA (SATELLITE); WATER VAPOR;

ALABAMA; CROSSVILLE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84937976286     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2015.05.011     Document Type: Article

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