Geometry and adjacency effects in urban land surface temperature retrieval from high-spatial-resolution thermal infrared images

2021 ◽  
Vol 262 ◽  
pp. 112518
Author(s):  
Shanshan Chen ◽  
Huazhong Ren ◽  
Xin Ye ◽  
Jiaji Dong ◽  
Yitong Zheng
Keyword(s):  
Surface Temperature ◽  
Spatial Resolution ◽  
Land Surface Temperature ◽  
Land Surface ◽  
High Spatial Resolution ◽  
Thermal Infrared ◽  
Urban Land ◽  
Infrared Images ◽  
Thermal Infrared Images ◽  
Temperature Retrieval

scholarly journals A Random Forest-Based Data Fusion Method for Obtaining All-Weather Land Surface Temperature with High Spatial Resolution

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 2211
Author(s):  
Shuo Xu ◽  
Jie Cheng ◽  
Quan Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Random Forest ◽  
Surface Temperature ◽  
Spatial Resolution ◽  
Land Surface Temperature ◽  
Land Surface ◽  
High Spatial Resolution ◽  
Learning Algorithm ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Fusion Method ◽  
Moisture Condition

Land surface temperature (LST) is an important parameter for mirroring the water–heat exchange and balance on the Earth’s surface. Passive microwave (PMW) LST can make up for the lack of thermal infrared (TIR) LST caused by cloud contamination, but its resolution is relatively low. In this study, we developed a TIR and PWM LST fusion method on based the random forest (RF) machine learning algorithm to obtain the all-weather LST with high spatial resolution. Since LST is closely related to land cover (LC) types, terrain, vegetation conditions, moisture condition, and solar radiation, these variables were selected as candidate auxiliary variables to establish the best model to obtain the fusion results of mainland China during 2010. In general, the fusion LST had higher spatial integrity than the MODIS LST and higher accuracy than downscaled AMSR-E LST. Additionally, the magnitude of LST data in the fusion results was consistent with the general spatiotemporal variations of LST. Compared with in situ observations, the RMSE of clear-sky fused LST and cloudy-sky fused LST were 2.12–4.50 K and 3.45–4.89 K, respectively. Combining the RF method and the DINEOF method, a complete all-weather LST with a spatial resolution of 0.01° can be obtained.

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