Assessing the capability of a downscaled urban land surface temperature time series to reproduce the spatiotemporal features of the original data

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Sismanidis, Panagiotis ^a,b   Keramitsoglou, Iphigenia ^a   Kiranoudis, Chris T ^a,b   Bechtel, Benjamin ^c  

^a NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diurnal evolution; Evaluation; Hotspots; Land surface temperature; LST downscaling; MODIS; MSG SEVIRI; Thermal remote sensing; Urban heat island

Indexed keywords

REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TIME SERIES;

DIURNAL EVOLUTION; DOWN-SCALING; EVALUATION; HOTSPOTS; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; MODIS; MSG-SEVIRI; THERMAL REMOTE SENSING; URBAN HEAT ISLAND;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84971671457     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8040274     Document Type: Article

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