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http://dx.doi.org/10.7780/kjrs.2013.29.1.7

Geostatistical Downscaling of Coarse Scale Remote Sensing Data and Integration with Precise Observation Data for Generation of Fine Scale Thematic Information  

Park, No-Wook (Department of Geoinformatic Engineering, Inha University)
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Korean Journal of Remote Sensing / v.29, no.1, 2013 , pp. 69-79 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper presents a two-stage geostatistical integration approach that aims at downscaling of coarse scale remote sensing data. First, downscaling of the coarse scale sedoncary data is implemented using area-to-point kriging, and this result will be used as trend components on the next integration stage. Then simple kriging with local varying means that integrates sparse precise observation data with the downscaled data is applied to generate thematic information at a finer scale. The presented approach can not only account for the statistical relationships between precise observation and secondary data acquired at the different scales, but also to calibrate the errors in the secondary data through the integration with precise observation data. An experiment for precipitation mapping with weather station data and TRMM (Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission) data acquired at a coarse scale is carried out to illustrate the applicability of the presented approach. From the experiment, the geostatistical downscaling approach applied in this paper could generate detailed thematic information at various finer target scales that reproduced the original TRMM precipitation values when upscaled. And the integration of the downscaled secondary information with precise observation data showed better prediction capability than that of a conventional univariate kriging algorithm. Thus, it is expected that the presented approach would be effectively used for downscaling of coarse scale data with various data acquired at different scales.
Keywords
scale; downscaling; kriging; integration;
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