Estimation of land surface temperature from MODIS in Northeast China
Received date: 2017-05-08
Request revised date: 2017-09-16
Online published: 2017-11-20
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Land surface temperature (LST) is an important parameter driving dynamics of biogeophysical processes on Earth surface. It has significant impacts on the distribution of permafrost and the change of the active layer depth. Conventional acquisition of LST data usually comes from weather station monitoring in a small and discrete scope. NASA's MOD11 A1 surface temperature product can provide a wide range of surface temperature data. In winter, however, the confusion of clouds and snow often leads to a large amount of data missing in the MOD11 A1 products in the permafrost region. In this paper, an improved split-window algorithm was selected to re-build the LST products in Northeast China, one of the major permafrost regions in China. Within the common land covers extracted from remote sensing classification results, such as vegetation, bare soil, water and snow. We extracted LST in each cover type from four cloud-free MODIS 1B satellite images in 2006. Both our results and the original MOD11 A1 products were statistically compared with ground measurements at weather stations. The average difference between our results and measurements at meteorological stations was small, reaching a room-mean-square error (RMSE) of 1.24 ℃. In comparison with the original MOD11 A1 products, our results took advantage of land covers and revealed better distributions of land surface temperature in snow area, and had a high consistency with the surface temperature products. This study provides a good approach to filling in the gaps of current land surface temperature products due to confusion caused by the cloud and snow.
LIU Shibo , ZANG Shuying , ZHANG Lijuan , NA Xiaodong . Estimation of land surface temperature from MODIS in Northeast China[J]. GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH, 2017 , 36(11) : 2251 -2260 . DOI: 10.11821/dlyj201711017
Fig. 1 Distributions of permafrost types in the Northeast China图1 东北冻土区冻土类型分布图 |
Tab. 1 Emissivity of different land surfaces表1 不同地物地表比辐射率 |
| 地表类型 | 第31波段地表比辐射率 | 第32波段地表比辐射率 |
|---|---|---|
| 植被 | 0.986 | 0.989 |
| 冰雪 | 0.988 | 0.971 |
| 裸土 | 0.967 | 0.977 |
| 水体 | 0.996 | 0.992 |
Tab. 2 Errors of the MODIS LST products against observation data at meteorological stations表2 地表温度反演值与站点值误差分析 |
| 日期 | 反演平均 值() | 站点实测 平均值() | 平均绝对 误差 | 均方根 偏差 | R2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2月23日 | -8.05 | -7.69 | 1.28 | 1.52 | 0.853 |
| 3月19日 | 0.77 | 1.42 | 1.41 | 1.67 | 0.737 |
| 10月5日 | 17.10 | 17.16 | 1.06 | 1.19 | 0.872 |
| 11月24日 | -5.26 | -5.19 | 1.21 | 1.37 | 0.828 |
Fig. 2 Scatter plots of LST图2 地表温度散点图 |
Fig. 3 Spatial distributions of the MODIS products and our LST results图3 MODIS产品和地表温度反演结果图 |
Tab. 3 Statistical summaries of the MODIS products and our LST results表3 MODIS产品和地表温度反演结果的像元统计 |
| 日期 | 像元个数(个) | 所占百分比(%) |
|---|---|---|
| 2月23日反演结果 2月23日产品结果 3月19日反演结果 3月19日产品结果 10月5日反演结果 10月5日产品结果 11月24日反演结果 11月24日产品结果 | 786487 226634 752665 593210 785362 746927 742378 239984 | 99.96 28.80 95.66 75.39 99.81 94.93 94.35 30.50 |
Fig. 4 Histograms of the MODIS products and our LST results图4 MODIS产品温度和地表温度反演结果分布直方图 |
Tab. 4 Comparison of our LST results and the MODIS products ()表4 遥感反演地表温度结果与MODIS产品的对比() |
| 最大值 | 最小值 | 平均值 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 地表温度反演值 | 24.26 | 6.11 | 15.34 |
| MODIS产品值 | 23.95 | 5.7 | 16.25 |
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
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