Retrieving Land surface Component Temperature Using Multi-Angle Thermal Infrared Data

  • Wenjie, Fan (Institute of Remote Sensing and GIS, Peking University) ;
  • Xiru, Xu (Center of Remote Sensing and GIS of Beijing Normal University & Institute of Remote Sensing and GIS, Peking University)
  • Published : 2003.11.03

Abstract

As non-isothermal mixed pixel is widely existed, the pixel-mean temperature cannot adequately represent the actual thermal state of land surface. The row crop was chosen as target to discuss the problem of component temperature retrieval. At first, the matrix model was found to express the thermal radiant directionality of the target. Then correlation of multi-angle infrared radiance was analyzed. In order to increase the retrieving accuracy, we chose the retrievable parameters and established the iterative method combining with inverse matrix to retrieve component temperature. It was proved by field experiment that the method could improve the retrieving accuracy and stability remarkably.

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