Multispectral thermal imager land surface temperature retrieval framework

Lee K. Balick; Andrew P. Rodger; William B. Clodius

doi:10.1117/12.512745

24 February 2004 Multispectral thermal imager land surface temperature retrieval framework

Lee K. Balick, Andrew P. Rodger, William B. Clodius

Proceedings Volume 5232, Remote Sensing for Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Hydrology V; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.512745
Event: Remote Sensing, 2003, Barcelona, Spain

Abstract

This paper presents a framework for earth surface temperature retrievals from Multispectral thermal images acquired buy the US Dept. of Energy Multispectral Thermal Imager (MTI) satellite. The satellite has 15 spectral band including 5 bands in the thermal IR. Also there are three near IR bands for daytime retrieval of atmospheric water vapor to use for atmospheric compensation of the thermal IR measurements. Multispectral thermal IR techniques for retrieval of water surface temperature from MTI data have been implemented and made operational. The approach to temperature retrieval presented is amenable to land surface as well as water surface temperature retrievals. The approach uses the best available atmospheric profiles of temperature and humidity as inputs to MODTRAN4 to compute look up tables of the necessary atmospheric radiative transfer components. These profiles can come from any source but we make extensive use of grided data assimilation products for numerical weather prediction. For daytime images, the humidity profiles are scaled by the column water vapor retrieved from near IR bands on a pixel-by-pixel basis. Ground leaving radiance images can then be produced and apparent temperatures are computed given some source of emissivity information. To date, we have implemented the Normalized Emissivity Method (NEM) and the ASTER temperature emissivity separation approach adapted to MTI, and the ASTER and MODIS spectral libraries are available. A final retrieved temperature is determined from the temperatures retrieved for each band according to a specified rule. Validation of the techniques is presented for one water site and two land sites where the spectral emissivity is known and simultaneous ground measurements of skin temperatures were made. The daytime retrieval results are consistently within 1.1C of the ground measurements. Finally, we investigate the impact or using different global weather data products as the meteorological data source.

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Lee K. Balick, Andrew P. Rodger, and William B. Clodius "Multispectral thermal imager land surface temperature retrieval framework", Proc. SPIE 5232, Remote Sensing for Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Hydrology V, (24 February 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.512745

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Thermography

Temperature metrology

Satellites

Infrared imaging

Data modeling

Atmospheric modeling

Multispectral imaging

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