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Automated water surface temperature retrieval from Landsat 8/TIRS Open
Satellite remote sensing of Land and Water Surface Temperature (L/WST) has many applications in studies of terrestrial and aquatic ecology. Retrieval of L/WST requires a well calibrated radiometer and an accurate atmospheric correction. In…
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A Practical Split-Window Algorithm for Retrieving Land Surface Temperature from Landsat-8 Data and a Case Study of an Urban Area in China Open
This paper proposes a practical split-window algorithm (SWA) for retrieving land surface temperature (LST) from Landsat-8 Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) data. This SWA has a universal applicability and a set of parameters that can be appli…
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Combined land surface emissivity and temperature estimation from Landsat 8 OLI and TIRS Open
Remote sensing of Land Surface Temperature (LST) generally requires atmospheric parameters and the emissivity (∊) of the target to be estimated. The atmospheric up- and downwelling radiances and transmittance can be accurately modelled usi…
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A Software Tool for Atmospheric Correction and Surface Temperature Estimation of Landsat Infrared Thermal Data Open
Land surface temperature (LST) is an important variable involved in the Earth’s surface energy and water budgets and a key component in many aspects of environmental research. The Landsat program, jointly carried out by NASA and the USGS, …
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Laser Beam Atmospheric Propagation Modelling for Aerospace LIDAR Applications Open
Atmospheric effects have a significant impact on the performance of airborne and space laser systems. Traditional models used to predict propagation effects rely heavily on simplified assumptions of the atmospheric properties and their int…
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Global Sensitivity Analysis of Leaf-Canopy-Atmosphere RTMs: Implications for Biophysical Variables Retrieval from Top-of-Atmosphere Radiance Data Open
Knowledge of key variables driving the top of the atmosphere (TOA) radiance over a vegetated surface is an important step to derive biophysical variables from TOA radiance data, e.g., as observed by an optical satellite. Coupled leaf-canop…
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High-Spatial Resolution Monitoring of Phycocyanin and Chlorophyll-a Using Airborne Hyperspectral Imagery Open
Hyperspectral imagery (HSI) provides substantial information on optical features of water bodies that is usually applicable to water quality monitoring. However, it generates considerable uncertainties in assessments of spatial and tempora…
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First Comparisons of Surface Temperature Estimations between ECOSTRESS, ASTER and Landsat 8 over Italian Volcanic and Geothermal Areas Open
The ECO System Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station (ECOSTRESS) is a new space mission developed by NASA-JPL which launched on July 2018. It includes a multispectral thermal infrared radiometer that measures the radian…
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Sensitivity of Landsat 8 Surface Temperature Estimates to Atmospheric Profile Data: A Study Using MODTRAN in Dryland Irrigated Systems Open
The land surface temperature (LST) represents a critical element in efforts to characterize global surface energy and water fluxes, as well as being an essential climate variable in its own right. Current satellite platforms provide a rang…
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Predicting Atmospheric Attenuation Under Pristine Conditions Between 0.1 and 100 THz Open
This multidisciplinary article reports on a research application-led study for predicting atmospheric attenuation, and tries to bridge the knowledge gap between applied engineering and atmospheric sciences. As a useful comparative baseline…
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Generalized radiative transfer emulation for imaging spectroscopy reflectance retrievals Open
Estimates of surface reflectance from observed radiance are fundamentally tied to the accuracy of the radiative transfer models used to simulate the interaction of light with the atmosphere and surface. These radiative transfer models are …
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Estimation of Land Surface Temperature in an Agricultural Region of Bangladesh from Landsat 8: Intercomparison of Four Algorithms Open
The presence of two thermal bands in Landsat 8 brings the opportunity to use either one or both of these bands to retrieve Land Surface Temperature (LST). In order to compare the performances of existing algorithms, we used four methods to…
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A Split Window Algorithm for Retrieving Land Surface Temperature from FY-3D MERSI-2 Data Open
The thermal infrared (TIR) data from the Medium Resolution Spectral Imager II (MERSI-2) on the Chinese meteorological satellite FY-3D have high spatiotemporal resolution. Although the MERSI-2 land surface temperature (LST) products have go…
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Aerial Thermography for Energetic Modelling of Cities Open
The rising attention to energy consumption problems is renewing interest in the applications of thermal remote sensing in urban areas. The research presented here aims to test a methodology to retrieve information about roof surface temper…
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Evaluation of Land Surface Temperature Retrieval from FY-3B/VIRR Data in an Arid Area of Northwestern China Open
This paper uses the refined Generalized Split-Window (GSW) algorithm to derive the land surface temperature (LST) from the data acquired by the Visible and Infrared Radiometer on FengYun 3B (FY-3B/VIRR). The coefficients in the GSW algorit…
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An Algorithm to Retrieve Total Precipitable Water Vapor in the Atmosphere from FengYun 3D Medium Resolution Spectral Imager 2 (FY-3D MERSI-2) Data Open
The atmosphere has substantial effects on optical remote sensing imagery of the Earth’s surface from space. These effects come through the functioning of atmospheric particles on the radiometric transfer from the Earth’s surface through th…
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Comparative analysis of atmospheric radiative transfer models using the Atmospheric Look-up table Generator (ALG) toolbox (version 2.0) Open
Atmospheric radiative transfer models (RTMs) are software tools that help researchers in understanding the radiative processes occurring in the Earth's atmosphere. Given their importance in remote sensing applications, the intercomparison …
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Atmospheric correction of APEX hyperspectral data Open
Atmospheric correction plays a crucial role among the processing steps applied to remotely sensed hyperspectral data. Atmospheric correction comprises a group of procedures needed to remove atmospheric effects from observed spectra, i.e. t…
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Atmospheric Correction for Tower-Based Solar-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence Observations at O2-A Band Open
Solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) has been proven to be an efficient indicator of vegetation photosynthesis. To investigate the relationship between SIF and Gross Primary Productivity (GPP), tower-based continuous spectral obser…
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MOD2SEA: A Coupled Atmosphere-Hydro-Optical Model for the Retrieval of Chlorophyll-a from Remote Sensing Observations in Complex Turbid Waters Open
An accurate estimation of the chlorophyll-a (Chla) concentration is crucial for water quality monitoring and is highly desired by various government agencies and environmental groups. However, using satellite observations for Chla estimati…
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Comparison of Cloudy‐Sky Downward Longwave Radiation Algorithms Using Synthetic Data, Ground‐Based Data, and Satellite Data Open
Cloud plays a crucial role in surface downward longwave radiation (DLR). To determine optimal algorithms for cloud‐sky DLR calculation under various climates, three types of algorithms were assessed, (i) four empirical algorithms determini…
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Retrieval of Atmospheric Parameters and Data-Processing Algorithms forAVIRIS-NG Indian Campaign Data Open
Applications of high-spatial resolution imaging spectrometer data acquired from the Airborne Visible/ Infrared Imaging Spectrometer-Next Generation (AVIRIS-NG) under India campaign 2015-16, require a thorough compensation for atmospheric a…
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Radiometric Calibration Evaluation for FY3D MERSI-II Thermal Infrared Channels at Lake Qinghai Open
The absolute radiometric accuracy of the Fengyun 3D advanced Medium Resolution Spectral Imager (FY3D MERSI-II) thermal infrared bands was evaluated using the collected field measurements and atmospheric transfer simulations during 16–22 Au…
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Improvement of Split-Window Algorithm for Land Surface Temperature Retrieval from Sentinel-3A SLSTR Data Over Barren Surfaces Using ASTER GED Product Open
Land surface temperature (LST) is a key variable influencing the energy balance between the land surface and the atmosphere. In this work, a split-window algorithm was used to calculate LST from Sentinel-3A Sea and Land Surface Temperature…
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An Operational Split-Window Algorithm for Retrieving Land Surface Temperature from Geostationary Satellite Data: A Case Study on Himawari-8 AHI Data Open
An operational split-window (SW) algorithm was developed to retrieve high-temporal-resolution land surface temperature (LST) from global geostationary (GEO) satellite data. First, the MODTRAN 5.2 and SeeBor V5.0 atmospheric profiles were u…
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Systematic Assessment of MODTRAN Emulators for Atmospheric Correction Open
Atmospheric radiative transfer models (RTMs) simulate the light propagation in the Earth's atmosphere. With the evolution of RTMs, their increase in complexity makes them impractical in routine processing such as atmospheric correction. To…
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Physically Based Approach for Combined Atmospheric and Topographic Corrections Open
The enhanced spectral and spatial resolutions of the remote sensors have increased the need for highly performing preprocessing procedures. In this paper, a comprehensive approach, which simultaneously performs atmospheric and topographic …
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Quantification of the Adjacency Effect on Measurements in the Thermal Infrared Region Open
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CWV-Net: A Deep Neural Network for Atmospheric Column Water Vapor Retrieval From Hyperspectral VNIR Data Open
Estimation of the total column water vapor (CWV) content of the atmosphere plays an important role in the atmospheric compensation (AC) of remotely sensed hyperspectral images collected in the visible and near infrared (VNIR) spectral rang…
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Efficient radiative transfer model for thermal infrared brightness temperature simulation in cloudy atmospheres Open
An efficient radiative transfer model (ERTM) is developed to simulate thermal infrared brightness temperatures observed by the Advanced Himawari Imager (AHI) in this study. The ERTM contains an alternate mapping correlated k-distribution (…