Reducing the Discrepancy Between ASTER and MODIS Land Surface Temperature Products 英文参考文献.docVIP

Sensors 2007, 7, 3043-3057 sensors ISSN 1424-8220 ? 2007 by MDPI /sensors Full Research Paper Reducing the Discrepancy Between ASTER and MODIS Land Surface Temperature Products Yuanbo Liu 1,2,*, Yasushi Yamaguchi 1 and Changqing Ke 3 1 Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464- 8601, Japan; E-mail: yb218@, yasushi@nagoya-u.jp 2 Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, East Beijing Road No.73, Nanjing 210008, China 3 Department of Geographical Information Science, Nanjing University, Hankou Road 22, Nanjing 210093, China; E-mail: kecq2000@ * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. Received: 25 October 2007 / Accepted: 2 December 2007 / Published: 4 December 2007 Abstract: Human-induced global warming has significantly increased the importance of satellite monitoring of land surface temperature (LST) on a global scale. The MODerate- resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) provides a 1-km resolution LST product with almost daily coverage of the Earth, invaluable to both local and global change studies. The Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) provides a LST product with a high spatial resolution of 90-m and a 16-day recurrent cycle, simultaneously acquired at the same height and nadir view as MODIS. ASTER and MODIS are complementary in resolution, offering a unique opportunity for scale-related studies. ASTER and MODIS LST have been widely used but the errors in LST were mostly disregarded. Correction of ASTER-to-MODIS LST discrepancies is essential for studies reliant upon the joint use of these sensors. In this study, we compared three correction approaches: the Wan et al.’s approach, the refined Wan et al.’s approach, and the generalized split window (GSW) algorithm based approach. The Wan et al.’s approach corrects the MODIS 1-km LST using MO