Evaluating the Operational Retrieval and Downscaling of Urban Land Surface Temperatures

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1312-1316

  Sismanidis, Panagiotis ^a,b   Keramitsoglou, Iphigenia ^a   Kiranoudis, Chris T ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Data set; evaluation; land surface temperature (LST); Meteosat Second Generation Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager (MSG SEVIRI); Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS); real time; surface urban heat island; time series; urban areas

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPACE APPLICATIONS; SPACE OPTICS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TIME SERIES;

DATA SET; EVALUATION; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; REAL TIME; SPINNING ENHANCED VISIBLE AND INFRARED IMAGER; SURFACE URBAN HEAT ISLANDS; URBAN AREAS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

EID: 85027918105     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2015.2397450     Document Type: Article

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