Using microwave brightness temperature diurnal cycle to improve emissivity retrievals over land" (2012). a b s t r a c t a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Emissivity Brightness temperature Diurnal cycle Land Passive microwave Effective temperature Vegetation Soil moisture To retrieve microwave land emissivity, infrared surface skin temperatures have been used as surface physical temperature since...

land surface temperature (lst) is an important factor in global change studies. the information about lst has an important role in the range of issues and themes in earth sciences such as global environment change, human-environment interaction and more specifically to urban climatology. this research has been undertaken to analyze the potential of multispectral satellite data for retrieving th...

The research used the satellite image (Landsat 7 ETM ) within the thermal infrared sixth band (TIR6) and geographic information system (GIS) to determine the air pollution and its relationship with the land cover (LC) and land use (LU) of Baghdad city. Concentration of total suspended particles (TSP), lead (Pb), carbon oxides (CO, CO2), and sulphur dioxide (SO2) were obtained from 22 ground mea...

Emissivity mapping of the Earth’s surface is the prerequisite to thermal remote sensing. A precise determinationof a surface's temperature is dependent upon the availability of precise emissivity data for that surface. The presentstudy area is a part of sugarcane plantation fields in the west part of Khuzestan province. In this work, TemperatureEmissivity Separation algorithm (TES) was applied ...

In this paper, a theoretical study complementary to others given in the literature about the errors committed on the land surface temperature retrieved from the radiative transfer equation in the thermal infrared region by remote sensing techniques has been analysed. For this purpose, the MODTRAN 3.5 code has been used in order to simulate different conditions and evaluate the influence of seve...

A practical multiband, hierarchical algorithm for estimating land-surface temperature from NASA's future EOS instruments MODIS and ASTER is developed through comprehensive, accurate, radiative transfer simulations at moderate spectral steps of 1-5 cm -1 for wide ranges of atmospheric and surface conditions. The algorithm will accept empirical or estimated information about the surface emissivit...

In remote sensing studies of land surface temperatures (LST), thematic land-use and land-cover (LULC) data are frequently employed for simple correlation analyses between LULC types and their thermal signatures. Development of quantitative surface descriptors could improve our capabilities for modeling urban thermal landscapes and advance urban climate research. This study developed an analytic...

This paper provides an overview of, and rationale for, the definition of a multi-channel Land Surface Temperature (LST) data product from the AATSR. Land surface temperature (LST) is an extremely important parameter that controls the exchange of longwave radiation between the surface and atmosphere. Because of the extreme heterogeneity of most natural land surfaces, LST is a difficult parameter...

Urban heat islands are characterized by high land surface temperature, low humidity, and poor vegetation, and considered to favor the transmission of the mosquito-borne dengue fever that is transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito. We analyzed the recorded dengue incidence in Sao Paulo city, Brazil, in 2010-2011, in terms of multiple environmental and socioeconomic variables. Geographical info...