Reassessment of the temperature-emissivity separation from multispectral thermal infrared data: Introducing the impact of vegetation canopy by simulating the cavity effect with the SAIL-Thermique model

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 198, Issue , 2017, Pages 160-172

  Jacob, Frédéric ^a   Lesaignoux, Audrey ^a   Olioso, Albert ^b   Weiss, Marie ^b   Caillault, Karine ^c   Jacquemoud, Stéphane ^d   Nerry, Françoise ^e   French, Andrew ^f   Schmugge, Thomas ^g   Briottet, Xavier ^c   Lagouarde, Jean Pierre ^h  

^a UMR LISAH   (France)

^b UAPV   (France)

^c ONERA   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^e CNRS   (France)

^f U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^g NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h BORDEAUX SCIENCES AGRO   (France)

Author keywords

Cavity effect; Multispectral observations; SAIL Thermique radiative transfer model; Temperature emissivity separation; Thermal infrared remote sensing; Vegetation canopy

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; INFRARED RADIATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REMOTE SENSING; SEPARATION; SOILS; VEGETATION;

CAVITY EFFECT; MULTI-SPECTRAL; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; THERMAL INFRARED REMOTE SENSING; VEGETATION CANOPY;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION;

CANOPY EXCHANGE; EMISSIVITY; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; LAND SURFACE; LEAF AREA INDEX; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REMOTE SENSING; SENSOR; SOIL COVER; SPECTRUM; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL INFRARED MULTISPECTRAL SCANNER; VEGETATION COVER;

EID: 85020456712     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2017.06.006     Document Type: Article

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