Effect of Global Climate Change on Land Surface Temperature over Dubai, United Arab Emirates with the Aid of Landsat 8 Satellite Imagery

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raj N.S Sarath ◽  
Jerrin Thadathil Varghese ◽  
Roshan Bhatkar
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Surface Temperature ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Satellite Imagery ◽  
Land Surface Temperature ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Land Surface ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Landsat 8

scholarly journals Spatiotemporal Variation of Land Surface Temperature and Vegetation in Response to Climate Change Based on NOAA-AVHRR Data over China

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 3601
Author(s):  
Zhaoqi Wang ◽  
Zhiyuan Lu ◽  
Guolong Cui
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Surface Temperature ◽  
Land Surface Temperature ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Land Surface ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Northern China ◽  
Spatiotemporal Variation ◽  
Noaa Avhrr

The dynamics of land surface temperature (LST) and its correlation with vegetation are crucial to understanding the effects of global climate change. This study intended to retrieve the LST of China, based on the NOAA-AVHRR images, by using a split-window algorithm. The spatiotemporal variation of LST, Normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), and the correlation between the two was investigated in China from 1982–2016. Moreover, eight scenarios were established to explore the driving forces in vegetation variation. Results indicated that the LST increased by 0.06 °C/year in nearly 81.1% of the study areas. The NDVI with an increasing rate of 0.1%/year and occupied 58.6% of the study areas. By contrast, 41.4% of the study areas with a decreasing rate of 0.7 × 10−3/year, was mainly observed in northern China. The correlation coefficients between NDVI and LST were higher than that between NDVI and precipitation, and the increase in LST could stimulate vegetation growth. Most regions of China have experienced significant warming over the past decades, specifically, desertification happens in northern China, because it is getting drier. The synergy of LST and precipitation is the primary cause of vegetation dynamics. Therefore, long-term monitoring of LST and NDVI is necessary to better understand the adaptation of the terrestrial ecosystem to global climate change.

Evaluation of Land Surface Temperature Retrieved from MODIS Data

2013 ◽  
Vol 785-786 ◽  
pp. 1333-1336
Author(s):  
Xiao Feng Yang ◽  
Xing Ping Wen
Keyword(s):  
Surface Temperature ◽  
Brightness Temperature ◽  
Land Surface Temperature ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Land Surface ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Average Temperature ◽  
Profile Line ◽  
Weather Stations ◽  
Temperature Retrieval

Land surface temperature (LST) is important factor in global climate change studies, radiation budgets estimating, city heat and others. In this paper, land surface temperature of Guangzhou metropolis was retrieved from two MODIS imageries obtained at night and during the day respectively. Firstly, pixel values were calibrated to spectral radiances according to parameters from header files. Then, the brightness temperature was calculated using Planck function. Finally, The brightness temperature retrieval maps were projected and output. Comparing two brightness temperature retrieval maps, it is concluded that the brightness temperature retrieval are more accurate at night than during the day. Comparing the profile line of brightness temperature from north to south, the brightness temperature increases from north to south. Temperature different from north to south is larger at night than during the day. The average temperature nears 18°C at night and the average temperature nears 26°C during the day, which is consistent with the surface temperature observed by automatic weather stations.

scholarly journals Retrieval of Land Surface Temperature of Lahore Through Landsat-8 TIRS Data

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-77
Author(s):  
Muhammad Nasar -u-Minallah
Keyword(s):  
Radiative Transfer ◽  
Surface Temperature ◽  
Land Surface Temperature ◽  
Vegetation Cover ◽  
Land Surface ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Spectral Radiance ◽  
Landsat 8 ◽  
Barren Land ◽  
Data Continuity

Land surface temperature (LST) is an important parameter in global climate change and urban thermalenvironmental studies. The significance of land surface temperature is being acknowledged gradually and interest isincreasing in developing methodologies for the retrieval of LST from Satellite Remote Sensing (SRS) data. ThermalInfrared Sensor (TIRS) of Landsat-8 is the newest TIR sensor for the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM),offering two adjacent thermal infrared bands (10, 11), having significant beneficiary for the land surface temperatureinversion. The spectral radiance can be estimated through TIR bands 10 and 11 of Landsat-8 OLI_TIRS satellite image.In the present study, the radiative transfer equation-based method has been employed in estimating LST of Lahore andthe analysis demonstrated that estimated LST has the highest accuracy from the radiative transfer method through band10. Land Surface Emissivity (LSE) was derived with the aid of the NDVI’s threshold technique. The present studyresults show that as the built-up area increases and vegetation cover decreases in urban surface, they are linked toincrease in urban land surface temperature and conversely larger vegetation cover associated with lower urbantemperature. The output exposed that LST was high in built-up and barren land, whereas it was low in the area wherethere were more vegetation cover and water.

scholarly journals Retrieval of Land Surface Temperature of Lahore Through Landsat-8 TIRS Data

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-77
Author(s):  
Muhammad Nasar -u-Minallah
Keyword(s):  
Radiative Transfer ◽  
Surface Temperature ◽  
Land Surface Temperature ◽  
Vegetation Cover ◽  
Land Surface ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Spectral Radiance ◽  
Landsat 8 ◽  
Barren Land ◽  
Data Continuity

Land surface temperature (LST) is an important parameter in global climate change and urban thermalenvironmental studies. The significance of land surface temperature is being acknowledged gradually and interest isincreasing in developing methodologies for the retrieval of LST from Satellite Remote Sensing (SRS) data. ThermalInfrared Sensor (TIRS) of Landsat-8 is the newest TIR sensor for the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM),offering two adjacent thermal infrared bands (10, 11), having significant beneficiary for the land surface temperatureinversion. The spectral radiance can be estimated through TIR bands 10 and 11 of Landsat-8 OLI_TIRS satellite image.In the present study, the radiative transfer equation-based method has been employed in estimating LST of Lahore andthe analysis demonstrated that estimated LST has the highest accuracy from the radiative transfer method through band10. Land Surface Emissivity (LSE) was derived with the aid of the NDVI’s threshold technique. The present studyresults show that as the built-up area increases and vegetation cover decreases in urban surface, they are linked toincrease in urban land surface temperature and conversely larger vegetation cover associated with lower urbantemperature. The output exposed that LST was high in built-up and barren land, whereas it was low in the area wherethere were more vegetation cover and water.

scholarly journals Analysis of Olive Grove Destruction by Xylella fastidiosa Bacterium on the Land Surface Temperature in Salento Detected Using Satellite Images

Forests ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 1266
Author(s):  
Teodoro Semeraro ◽  
Riccardo Buccolieri ◽  
Marzia Vergine ◽  
Luigi De Bellis ◽  
Andrea Luvisi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Land Cover ◽  
Surface Temperature ◽  
Land Surface Temperature ◽  
Land Surface ◽  
Forest Type ◽  
Xylella Fastidiosa ◽  
Agricultural Activity ◽  
Landsat 8 ◽  
Olive Groves

Agricultural activity replaces natural vegetation with cultivated land and it is a major cause of local and global climate change. Highly specialized agricultural production leads to extensive monoculture farming with a low biodiversity that may cause low landscape resilience. This is the case on the Salento peninsula, in the Apulia Region of Italy, where the Xylella fastidiosa bacterium has caused the mass destruction of olive trees, many of them in monumental groves. The historical land cover that characterized the landscape is currently in a transition phase and can strongly affect climate conditions. This study aims to analyze how the destruction of olive groves by X. fastidiosa affects local climate change. Land surface temperature (LST) data detected by Landsat 8 and MODIS satellites are used as a proxies for microclimate mitigation ecosystem services linked to the evolution of the land cover. Moreover, recurrence quantification analysis was applied to the study of LST evolution. The results showed that olive groves are the least capable forest type for mitigating LST, but they are more capable than farmland, above all in the summer when the air temperature is the highest. The differences in the average LST from 2014 to 2020 between olive groves and farmland ranges from 2.8 °C to 0.8 °C. Furthermore, the recurrence analysis showed that X. fastidiosa was rapidly changing the LST of the olive groves into values to those of farmland, with a difference in LST reduced to less than a third from the time when the bacterium was identified in Apulia six years ago. The change generated by X. fastidiosa started in 2009 and showed more or less constant behavior after 2010 without substantial variation; therefore, this can serve as the index of a static situation, which can indicate non-recovery or non-transformation of the dying olive groves. Failure to restore the initial environmental conditions can be connected with the slow progress of the uprooting and replacing infected plants, probably due to attempts to save the historic aspect of the landscape by looking for solutions that avoid uprooting the diseased plants. This suggests that social-ecological systems have to be more responsive to phytosanitary epidemics and adapt to ecological processes, which cannot always be easily controlled, to produce more resilient landscapes and avoid unwanted transformations.

scholarly journals Retrieving Land Surface Temperature from Satellite Imagery with a Novel Combined Strategy

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 277
Author(s):  
María Sánchez-Aparicio ◽  
Paula Andrés-Anaya ◽  
Susana Del Pozo ◽  
Susana Lagüela
Keyword(s):  
Surface Temperature ◽  
Satellite Imagery ◽  
Land Surface Temperature ◽  
Land Surface ◽  
Single Channel ◽  
Volcanic Eruptions ◽  
Thermal Infrared ◽  
Artificial Satellites ◽  
Computation Method ◽  
Landsat 8

Land surface temperature (LST) is a key parameter for land cover analysis and for many fields of study, for example, in agriculture, due to its relationship with the state of the crop in the evaluation of natural phenomena such as volcanic eruptions and geothermal areas, in desertification studies, or in the estimation of several variables of environmental interest such as evapotranspiration. The computation of LST from satellite imagery is possible due to the advances in thermal infrared technology and its implementation in artificial satellites. For example, Landsat 8 incorporates Operational Land Imager(OLI) and Thermal InfraRed Sensor(TIRS)sensors the images from which, in combination with data from other satellite platforms (such as Terra and Aqua) provide all the information needed for the computation of LST. Different methodologies have been developed for the computation of LST from satellite images, such as single-channel and split-window methodologies. In this paper, two existing single-channel methodologies are evaluated through their application to images from Landsat 8, with the aim at determining the optimal atmospheric conditions for their application, instead of searching for the best methodology for all cases. This evaluation results in the development of a new adaptive strategy for the computation of LST consisting of a conditional process that uses the environmental conditions to determine the most suitable computation method.

scholarly journals Algorithm for Automated Mapping of Land Surface Temperature Using LANDSAT 8 Satellite Data

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ugur Avdan ◽  
Gordana Jovanovska
Keyword(s):  
Surface Temperature ◽  
Land Surface Temperature ◽  
Land Surface ◽  
Thermal Environment ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Ground Surface ◽  
Urban Land Use ◽  
Landsat 8 ◽  
Automated Mapping ◽  
First Case

Land surface temperature is an important factor in many areas, such as global climate change, hydrological, geo-/biophysical, and urban land use/land cover. As the latest launched satellite from the LANDSAT family, LANDSAT 8 has opened new possibilities for understanding the events on the Earth with remote sensing. This study presents an algorithm for the automatic mapping of land surface temperature from LANDSAT 8 data. The tool was developed using the LANDSAT 8 thermal infrared sensor Band 10 data. Different methods and formulas were used in the algorithm that successfully retrieves the land surface temperature to help us study the thermal environment of the ground surface. To verify the algorithm, the land surface temperature and the near-air temperature were compared. The results showed that, for the first case, the standard deviation was 2.4°C, and for the second case, it was 2.7°C. For future studies, the tool should be refined within situmeasurements of land surface temperature.

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