Recent Achievements and Future Prospects of Land Surface Temperature (LST) with Remote Sensing
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Atmospheric Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2026 | Viewed by 8
Special Issue Editors
Interests: land surface models; land surface data; land–atmosphere interaction; climate change
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Interests: data assimilation; multisource data fusion; geostatistics; machine learning; spatio-temporal data analysis
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Land surface temperature refers to the temperature at the interface between the surface and the atmosphere, presenting the driving factor for energy and water exchange between the land surface and the atmosphere. Spatiotemporal changes in LST reflect information such as surface radiation balance, soil moisture, vegetation status, etc., which are crucial for understanding land–atmosphere interactions, monitoring drought, predicting crop yields, and so on. Traditional surface observation stations are sparse and unevenly distributed, making it difficult to meet the needs of large-scale monitoring. Satellite remote sensing has the advantages of wide coverage and short observation periods, and it has become the main means of obtaining regional and even global surface temperature. Therefore, land surface temperature monitoring with remote sensing has important application value in climate research, environmental monitoring, agricultural production, and other fields.
This Special Issue mainly focuses on the latest research on land surface temperature (LST) with remote sensing, including but not limited to the recent achievements and future prospects in satellite retrieval, long-term change, and multi-scale variation in LST. Original research articles, review papers, technical notes, and case studies on this topic are welcome.
Dr. Guocan Wu
Dr. Jianhui Xu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- land surface temperature
- land–atmosphere interactions
- land surface process
- satellite retrieval
- meteorological station observation
- long-term change
- multi-scale variation
- climatological average
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