Journal
REMOTE SENSING
Volume 11, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/rs11060650
Keywords
land surface temperature; Sentinel-3A SLSTR; split-window algorithm; validation
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41771369]
- UK government [SM007]
- National key research and development program [2017YFB0503905-05]
- NERC [NE/I030100/1, NE/K015982/1, NE/I006389/1, nceo020006, nceo020005, NE/H00386X/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- STFC [ST/R00286X/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Land surface temperature (LST) is a crucial parameter in the interaction between the ground and the atmosphere. The Sentinel-3A Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer (SLSTR) provides global daily coverage of day and night observation in the wavelength range of 0.55 to 12.0 mu m. LST retrieved from SLSTR is expected to be widely used in different fields of earth surface monitoring. This study aimed to develop a split-window (SW) algorithm to estimate LST from two-channel thermal infrared (TIR) and one-channel middle infrared (MIR) images of SLSTR observation. On the basis of the conventional SW algorithm, using two TIR channels for the daytime observation, the MIR data, with a higher atmospheric transmittance and a lower sensitivity to land surface emissivity, were further used to develop a modified SW algorithm for the nighttime observation. To improve the retrieval accuracy, the algorithm coefficients were obtained in different subranges, according to the view zenith angle, column water vapor, and brightness temperature. The proposed algorithm can theoretically estimate LST with an error lower than 1 K on average. The algorithm was applied to northern China and southern UK, and the retrieved LST captured the surface features for both daytime and nighttime. Finally, ground validation was conducted over seven sites (four in the USA and three in China). Results showed that LST could be estimated with an error mostly within 1.5 to 2.5 K from the algorithm, and the error of the nighttime algorithm involved with MIR data was about 0.5 K lower than the daytime algorithm.
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