Estimation of Land Surface Temperature over Reunion Island using the thermal infrared channels of Landsat-8

Author

Randrianjatovo, R.N. ; Rakotondraompiana, S. ; Rakotoniaina, S.

Author_Institution

Remote Sensing & Environ. Geophys. Lab., Univ. of Antananarivo, Antananarivo, Madagascar

fYear

2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Land Surface Temperature (LST) is one of key parameters in physics of land surface processes from local through global scale. LST is required for a wide variety of applications such as climatology, hydrology, agriculture, biochemistry, and change detection studies.

Keywords

atmospheric radiation; land surface temperature; AD 2013 07 01; LST; LST map; Landsat-8 OLI multispectral image; Landsat-8 thermal infrared channel; Operational Land Imager; Piton des Neiges; Reunion Island; TIRS multispectral image; TOA radiance; Thermal Infrared Sensor; agriculture application; atmospheric effect; atmospheric window measurement; biochemistry application; brightness temperature parameter; change detection study; climatology application; coastal zone; differential infrared band absorption; elevation range; emissivity parameter; global scale land surface process physics; heterogeneous urban area; hydrology application; land surface temperature estimation; local scale land surface process physics; mountainous area; southern hemisphere tropical climate; split window algorithm; surface emissivity estimation; surface leaving-radiance; surface temperature estimation; thermal infrared sensor; top-of-atmosphere radiance; Earth; Hydrology; Image resolution; Ocean temperature; Remote sensing; Satellites; Sea surface; LST; Landsat-8; SWA;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Humanitarian Technology Conference - (IHTC), 2014 IEEE Canada International

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-3995-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IHTC.2014.7147516

Filename

7147516