Land Surface Temperature Retrieval Using Satellite Remote Sensing (2nd Edition)
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Biosphere/Hydrosphere/Land–Atmosphere Interactions".
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Special Issue Editors
Interests: retrieval of geophysical parameters from satellite data; radiometric calibration of satellite instruments; radiative transfer modeling; deep learning and information extraction from digital images
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Interests: retrieval and validation of land surface temperature/emissivity; retrieval and validation of net surface radiation; radiative transfer modeling
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue is a follow-up of the first Special Issue entitled "Land Surface Temperature Retrieval Using Satellite Remote Sensing" (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/atmosphere/special_issues/Land_Surface_Temperature_Retrieval) published in Atmosphere in 2022.
Land surface temperature (LST) is a good indicator of energy partitioning at the land surface–atmosphere boundary, and is sensitive to changing surface conditions. Satellite remote sensing provides opportunities to estimate global and continuous LSTs. The key challenges in retrieving LST using satellite remote sensing are the removal of the atmospheric attenuation, the decoupling between LST and land surface emissivity (LSE), and topography. Over the past four decades, dozens of LST retrieval algorithms have been developed and expanded from the traditional thermal infrared and hyperspectral infrared remote sensing to microwave remote sensing. Meanwhile, to fill the gaps in the derived LSTs, many scientists are devoted to the extension of LST retrievals under all-weather conditions. To date, many LST products have been generated from satellite data, such as the advanced spaceborne thermal emission reflection radiometer (ASTER) and the moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS). The validation of LST products is fundamental for their further applications. Additionally, the LSTs estimated from satellite data are inconsistent due to different observation local times and viewing zenith angles. To tackle the problems of inconsistency, the LSTs derived from satellite data should be temporally and angularly normalized. For these reasons, this Special Issue mainly aims to collect papers investigating updated algorithms for LST estimation, validation, temporal and angular normalization, and the correlation between LST and surface air temperature.
Topics of interest for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Decoupling between LST and LSE;
- LST estimation from satellite infrared and microwave measurements;
- Temporal and angular normalization of LSTs;
- LST validation;
- Correlation between LST and surface air temperature.
Dr. Geng-Ming Jiang
Dr. Bo-Hui Tang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- radiative transfer modeling
- land surface emissivity (LSE)
- land surface temperature (LST)
- LST retrieval algorithms
- temporal and angular normalization of LSTs
- LST validation
- surface air temperature
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