An Effective Interpolation Method for MODIS Land Surface Temperature on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

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

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 4539-4550

  Yu, Wenjun ^a,b   Nan, Zhuotong ^a,c   Wang, Zhiwei ^a   Chen, Hao ^a   Wu, Tonghua ^a   Zhao, Lin ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Interpolation; land surface temperature (LST); MODIS; Qinghai Tibet Plateau (QTP)

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; INTERPOLATION; RADIOMETERS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

ATMOSPHERIC DISTURBANCE; DESIGNED EXPERIMENTS; INTERPOLATED IMAGES; INTERPOLATION METHOD; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; ORDINARY KRIGING; REGRESSION-KRIGING; SIMILARITY FUNCTIONS;

PIXELS;

INTERPOLATION; KRIGING; LAND SURFACE; MODIS; PIXEL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84939608111     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2015.2464094     Document Type: Conference Paper

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