Remote Sensing Monitoring of Land Surface Temperature (LST)

Dear Colleagues,

The combination of the state-of-the-art in the thermal infrared (TIR) domain with the recent advances in the capabilities provided by new satellite, UAV-based, or aerial remote sensing is encouraging the use of Land Surface Temperature (LST) in a variety of research fields beyond the traditional uses.

LST plays a key role in soil–vegetation–atmosphere processes. Estimation of surface energy flux exchanges, actual evapotranspiration, or vegetation and soil properties, as well as the monitoring of volcano or forest fire activities, are among the traditional applications of LST.

Latest advances in data fusion, downscaling, and disaggregation techniques provide a new dimension to LST applications in water resource and agronomic management thanks to the improvement in both the temporal and spatial resolution of the thermal products. Nevertheless, further research into LST estimation algorithms, as well as continuous calibration/validation, is still required to improve the accuracy of ground LST data and satellite LST products.

This Special Issue aims to collect recent developments, methodologies, calibration/validation, and applications of thermal remote sensing data, and derived products, from UAV-based remote sensing, aerial remote sensing, and satellite remote sensing. Papers on the application of LST to water resources assessment, evapotranspiration estimation, or irrigation management in arid and semiarid regions are particularly encouraged.

We also encourage you to submit papers that present novel methods, based on single or multi-sensor time series of LST, using Landsat TIRS, EOS ASTER, EOS MODIS, Sentinel-3A/B SLSTR, S-NPP/NOAA-20 VIIRS, etc. Review papers on these topics are also welcome.

In short, this Special Issue intends to collect recent efforts and contributions of the thermal remote sensing community dealing with LST estimation and applications.

Dr. Juan Manuel Sánchez
Dr. Raquel Niclòs
Dr. César Coll
Guest Editors

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