Intercalibration of methods for the land surface thermodynamic temperature retrieving inside urban area by thermal-infrared satellite imaging

Authors

  • Sergey Stankevich Scientific Centre for Aerospace Research of the Earth of the Institute of Geological Sciences of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Olesia Honchara str., 55-b, Kyiv, 01054, Ukraine https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0889-5764
  • Volodymyr Filipovich Scientific Centre for Aerospace Research of the Earth of the Institute of Geological Sciences of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Olesia Honchara str., 55-b, Kyiv, 01054, Ukraine https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9404-8122
  • Mykola Lubsky Scientific Centre for Aerospace Research of the Earth of the Institute of Geological Sciences of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Olesia Honchara str., 55-b, Kyiv, 01054, Ukraine https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3545-0007
  • Hanna Krylova Scientific Centre for Aerospace Research of the Earth of the Institute of Geological Sciences of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Olesia Honchara str., 55-b, Kyiv, 01054, Ukraine https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9863-4180
  • Sergey Kritsuk Federal State Budgetary Institution of Science “Research Center for Environmental Safety of the Russian Academy of Sciences”, Saint Petersburg https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3781-322X
  • Olga Brovkina Federal State Budgetary Institution of Science “Research Center for Environmental Safety of the Russian Academy of Sciences”, Saint Petersburg https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5860-2184
  • Viktor Gornyy Federal State Budgetary Institution of Science “Research Center for Environmental Safety of the Russian Academy of Sciences”, Saint Petersburg https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9706-6919
  • Andrei Tronin Federal State Budgetary Institution of Science “Research Center for Environmental Safety of the Russian Academy of Sciences”, Saint Petersburg https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7852-8396

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36023/ujrs.2015.7.59

Keywords:

satellite imaging, urban area, land surface, infrared irradiation, retrieving thermodynamic temperature, emissivity, intercalibration

Abstract

A comparative independent evaluation (intercalibration) of two methods for the land surface thermodynamic temperature retrieving by thermal infrared satellite imaging of Kiev was done in the framework of joint Russian and Ukrainian project “Investigation of urbanization influence on city’s microclimate (using thermal infrared satellite mapping)”, supported by RFBR (No 14-05-90416) and NAS of Ukraine (No 10-05-14). Both, low resolution EOS/MODIS and medium-resolution Landsat 8/ TIRS thermal infrared images were processed. Algorithms for the thermodynamic temperature and emissivity retrieving based on regressions and ground-truth measurements were applied and compared. Average regular error of land surface temperature retrieving was estimated as –0.93°C. Such accuracy is quite acceptable for the urban environment quantitative temperature monitoring by thermal infrared satellite imaging.

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2015-12-28

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Stankevich, S., Filipovich, V., Lubsky, M., Krylova, H., Kritsuk, S., Brovkina, O., Gornyy, V., & Tronin, A. (2015). Intercalibration of methods for the land surface thermodynamic temperature retrieving inside urban area by thermal-infrared satellite imaging. Ukrainian Journal of Remote Sensing, (7), 12–21. https://doi.org/10.36023/ujrs.2015.7.59

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No. 7 (2015)

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Techniques for Earth observation data acquisition, processing and interpretation

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