A single channel land surface temperature (LST) retrieval algorithm named Single Channel Water Vapor Dependent (SCWVD) method was presented for Medium Resolution Spectral Imager (MERSI) thermal infrared band aboard FengYun-3A (FY-3A) satellite. Water Vapor Content (WVC) is the only input parameter in the algorithm assuming the surface emissivity is known. NCEP reanalysis monthly mean datasets a...

[1] The time continuity of measurements from the Spinning Enhanced Visible and InfraRed Imager (SEVIRI) on board the Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) Meteosat‐8/9 and from the Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) on board the next generation of Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES‐R) can be uniquely taken into account for infrared (IR) land surface emissivity (LSE) retrievals. The ...

Aiming at improving present understanding on longshore sediment transport (LST), the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center recently established a Large-scale Sediment Transport Facility (LSTF). The 3dimensional movable-bed facility has the capability of simulating wave conditions that are directly comparable to annual averages along many low energy coasts. Wave, current, and sedime...

A recent revision of the MODIS Land-Surface Temperature Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document (LST ATBD) was completed in April. A paper on the vicarious calibration of MODIS Airborne Simulator (MAS) thermal infrared channels based on the MAS data and field measurement data acquired in the field campaign conducted in Mono Lake, California, on March 10, 1998, was submitted in February, revised in...

BACKGROUND Cutaneous leishmaniasis due to L. braziliensis (CL) is characterized by a positive delayed type hypersensitivity test (DTH) leishmania skin test (LST) and high IFN-γ production to soluble leishmania antigen (SLA). The LST is used for diagnosis of CL and for identification of individuals exposed to leishmania infection but without disease. The main aim of the present study was to iden...

APRIL 2004 AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY | S atellite-based surface temperature is referred to as skin temperature (Dickinson 1994). The National Research Council (NRC; 2000) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC; Houghton et al. 2001) pointed out the urgent need for long-term remote sensing–based land surface skin temperature (LST) data in global warming studies to improve ...

BACKGROUND A high prevalence of low serum testosterone (LST) in men with type 2 diabetes have been reported worldwide. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and associated factors of LST in men with type 2 diabetes. MATERIALS AND METHODS This was a cross-sectional study, conducted among 1,089 men (aged 30-70 years) with type 2 diabetes who consecutively attended a major diabet...

Location is essential in today’s mobile applications, and these applications need system support for efficient storage and retrieval of location information. Spatiotemporal data storage has received significant attention, most notably in spatiotemporal and moving object databases. However, a confluence of systems challenges (driven by constraints on bandwidth, latency, and interactivity) and so...

Lateral sinus thrombosis (LST) is usually The involvement of lateral sinus during the course of ear infection was a well known complication in preantibiotic days introduction of broad-spectrum ant a rare complication of otitis media and poses a serious threat that warrants immediate medical and surgical treatment. The classical clinical picture is often changed by previous antibiotic therapy. A...

This paper investigates the relationship between the surface urban heat islands (SUHI) and the percent impervious surface area (%ISA) in Shanghai, China. The %ISA was characterized from a Landsat-7 ETM+ multispectral dataset using the Linear Mixture Spectral Analysis (LMSA). Several critical steps being taken to derive %ISA were discussed, including atmospheric and geometric correction, water f...