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Modeling diurnal variation of ground thermal radiance images using energy balance model and endmember composing technique

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Modeling and analyzing dynamic changes of land thermal radiance scenes play an important role in thermal remote sensing. In this paper, the diurnal variation of ground surface thermal scene is mainly discussed. Firstly, based on the land surface energy balance equation, the diurnal variation of land surface temperatures (LSTs) over bare land covers were simulated by an analytical thermal model with second harmonic terms, and the diurnal LST variation of vegetation canopy was simulated using the Cupid model. Secondly, normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), normalized difference water index (NDWI), and ratio resident-area index (RRI) were used to evaluate the endmember abundance of four land cover types including vegetation, bare soil, impervious and water area, which were calculated from IKONOS visible and near infrared (VNIR) bands. Finally, the thermal radiance scenes at various times and view angles were modeled based on the linear-energy-mixing hypothesis. The results showed that the simulated daily LST variations for vegetated and bare surfaces are correlated with the measured values with a maximum standard deviation of 2.7°C, that land thermal radiant textures with high-resolution are restored from the linear-energy-mixing method, and that the information abundance of the scene are related to the distribution of land cover, the imaging time, and the view angle.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Jointly Sponsored by the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100101, China

    LiMin Zhao, XingFa Gu, Tao Yu, Pan Xiong, YanHua Xie & Lun Zhang

  2. The Center for National Spaceborne Demonstration, Beijing, 100101, China

    LiMin Zhao, XingFa Gu, Tao Yu, Pan Xiong, YanHua Xie & Lun Zhang

  3. School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China

    Wei Wan

  4. Institute of Earthquake Science, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing, 100036, China

    Pan Xiong

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Zhao, L., Gu, X., Yu, T. et al. Modeling diurnal variation of ground thermal radiance images using energy balance model and endmember composing technique. Sci. China Technol. Sci. 55, 3223–3231 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11431-012-5019-y

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