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20 June 2025

This study explores a method for deriving air temperature (AT) from land surface temperature (LST) based on different urban land-use types, aiming to address the accuracy of urban heat island (UHI) effect measurements. Using Wuhan as a case study, th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,418 Views
26 Pages

13 September 2024

Land Surface Temperature (LST) is integral to our understanding of the radiative energy budget of the Earth’s surface since it provides the best approximation to the thermodynamic temperature that drives the outgoing longwave flux from surface...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,696 Views
7 Pages

Land Surface Temperature Responses to Land Use Land Cover Dynamics (District of Taroudant, Morocco)

  • Abdelmejid Rahimi,
  • Zahra Khalil,
  • Abdelkrim Bouasria,
  • Ikram El Mjiri and
  • Mohammed Bounif

Land surface temperature plays an essential role in estimating radiation budgets, in heat balance studies, as a control for climate dynamics and for soil–vegetation–atmosphere transfer modeling, and in studying the impact of land use/land...

  • Article
  • Open Access
52 Citations
8,929 Views
17 Pages

Land Surface Temperature Retrieval from Sentinel-3A Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer, Using a Split-Window Algorithm

  • Yitong Zheng,
  • Huazhong Ren,
  • Jinxin Guo,
  • Darren Ghent,
  • Kevin Tansey,
  • Xingbang Hu,
  • Jing Nie and
  • Shanshan Chen

17 March 2019

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 wav...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,266 Views
21 Pages

Land Use Land Cover Changes and Their Effects on Surface Air Temperature in Myanmar and Thailand

  • Khun La Yaung,
  • Amnat Chidthaisong,
  • Atsamon Limsakul,
  • Pariwate Varnakovida and
  • Can Trong Nguyen

1 October 2021

Land use land cover (LULC) change is one of the main drivers contributing to global climate change. It alters surface hydrology and energy balance between the land surface and atmosphere. However, its impacts on surface air temperature have not been...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,610 Views
21 Pages

19 June 2023

During the few last years, climate change, including global warming, which is attributed to human activities, and its long-term adverse effects on the planet’s functions have been identified as the most challenging discussion topics and have pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,782 Views
23 Pages

Analysis of the Impact of Land-Use/Land-Cover Change on Land-Surface Temperature in the Villages within the Luki Biosphere Reserve

  • Michel Opelele Omeno,
  • Ying Yu,
  • Wenyi Fan,
  • Tolerant Lubalega,
  • Chen Chen and
  • Claude Kachaka Sudi Kaiko

12 October 2021

Major land-use/land-cover change due to rapid urbanization has been known to increase the land-surface temperature around the world. Consequently, examining the variation of land-surface temperatures and mitigating the related impacts remain a challe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,607 Views
27 Pages

Land Surface Condition-Driven Emissivity Variation and Its Impact on Diurnal Land Surface Temperature Retrieval Uncertainty

  • Lijuan Wang,
  • Ping Yue,
  • Yang Yang,
  • Sha Sha,
  • Die Hu,
  • Xueyuan Ren,
  • Xiaoping Wang,
  • Hui Han and
  • Xiaoyu Jiang

9 July 2025

Land surface emissivity (LSE) is the most critical factor affecting land surface temperature (LST) retrieval. Understanding its variation characteristics is essential, as this knowledge provides fundamental prior constraints for the LST retrieval pro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,170 Views
27 Pages

Evaluation of VIIRS Land Surface Temperature Using CREST-SAFE Air, Snow Surface, and Soil Temperature Data

  • Carlos L. Pérez Díaz,
  • Tarendra Lakhankar,
  • Peter Romanov,
  • Reza Khanbilvardi and
  • Yunyue Yu

15 December 2015

In this study, the Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Land Surface Temperature (LST) Environmental Data Record (EDR) was evaluated against snow surface (T-skin) and near-surface air temperature (T-air) ground observations recorded at th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,484 Views
20 Pages

A Method to Downscale Satellite Microwave Land-Surface Temperature

  • Samuel Favrichon,
  • Catherine Prigent and
  • Carlos Jiménez

31 March 2021

High-spatial-resolution land-surface temperature is required for several applications such as hydrological or climate studies. Global estimates of surface temperature are available from sensors observing in the infrared (IR), but without ‘all-weather...

  • Article
  • Open Access
114 Citations
12,379 Views
19 Pages

20 April 2015

Urbanization-associated land use and land cover (LULC) changes lead to modifications of surface microclimatic and hydrological conditions, including the formation of urban heat islands and changes in surface runoff pattern. The goal of the paper is t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,049 Views
38 Pages

6 October 2021

Booming urbanization triggers a significant modification of surface landscape configuration and hence complex urban climates. Considerable concerns exist regarding impacts of impervious surface area (ISA) and/or urban green space (UGS) on land surfac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,818 Views
20 Pages

The surface urban heat island (SUHI) affects the quality of urban life. Because varying urban structures have varying impacts on SUHI, it is crucial to understand the impact of land use/land cover characteristics for improving the quality of life in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
56 Citations
6,515 Views
19 Pages

Responses of Urban Land Surface Temperature on Land Cover: A Comparative Study of Vienna and Madrid

  • Han Xiao,
  • Monika Kopecká,
  • Shan Guo,
  • Yanning Guan,
  • Danlu Cai,
  • Chunyan Zhang,
  • Xiaoxin Zhang and
  • Wutao Yao

23 January 2018

The relationship between the land cover (LC) characteristics and the land surface temperature (LST) is significant for surface urban heat island (SUHI) study and for sustainability research. To better understand how the land surface temperature (LST)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,411 Views
25 Pages

A One-Source Approach for Estimating Land Surface Heat Fluxes Using Remotely Sensed Land Surface Temperature

  • Yongmin Yang,
  • Jianxiu Qiu,
  • Hongbo Su,
  • Qingmei Bai,
  • Suhua Liu,
  • Lu Li,
  • Yilei Yu and
  • Yaoxian Huang

6 January 2017

The partitioning of available energy between sensible heat and latent heat is important for precise water resources planning and management in the context of global climate change. Land surface temperature (LST) is a key variable in energy balance pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
287 Citations
28,202 Views
30 Pages

Simulating Land Cover Changes and Their Impacts on Land Surface Temperature in Dhaka, Bangladesh

  • Bayes Ahmed,
  • Md. Kamruzzaman,
  • Xuan Zhu,
  • Md. Shahinoor Rahman and
  • Keechoo Choi

15 November 2013

Despite research that has been conducted elsewhere, little is known, to-date, about land cover dynamics and their impacts on land surface temperature (LST) in fast growing mega cities of developing countries. Landsat satellite images of 1989, 1999, a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
73 Citations
13,313 Views
20 Pages

Comparison of Satellite-Derived Land Surface Temperature and Air Temperature from Meteorological Stations on the Pan-Arctic Scale

  • Marcel Urban,
  • Jonas Eberle,
  • Christian Hüttich,
  • Christiane Schmullius and
  • Martin Herold

14 May 2013

Satellite-based temperature measurements are an important indicator for global climate change studies over large areas. Records from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) and (Advanced...

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
7,014 Views
19 Pages

1 December 2017

Land surface temperature (LST) is a key parameter for a wide number of applications, including hydrology, meteorology and surface energy balance. In this study, we first proposed a new land surface emissivity (LSE) scheme, including a lookup table-ba...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,790 Views
32 Pages

Land surface temperature (LST) is an essential parameter in the climate system whose dynamics indicate climate change. This study aimed to assess the impact of multitemporal land use and land cover (LULC) change on LST due to urbanization in Hefei Ci...

  • Article
  • Open Access
97 Citations
10,854 Views
19 Pages

27 April 2017

Air temperature (Tair) near the ground surface is a fundamental descriptor of terrestrial environment conditions and one of the most widely used climatic variables in global change studies. The main objective of this study was to explore the possibil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,928 Views
17 Pages

Analysis of Land Surface Temperature Sensitivity to Vegetation in China

  • Zhonghua Qian,
  • Yingxiao Sun,
  • Zheng Chen,
  • Fei Ji,
  • Guolin Feng and
  • Qianrong Ma

15 September 2023

China has emerged as one of the global leaders in greening, achieved through human land use management practices, particularly afforestation projects. However, accurately calculating the energy balance processes of vegetated areas remains challenging...

  • Article
  • Open Access
74 Citations
11,879 Views
18 Pages

Estimating Temperature Fields from MODIS Land Surface Temperature and Air Temperature Observations in a Sub-Arctic Alpine Environment

  • Scott N. Williamson,
  • David S. Hik,
  • John A. Gamon,
  • Jeffrey L. Kavanaugh and
  • Gwenn E. Flowers

24 January 2014

Spatially continuous satellite infrared temperature measurements are essential for understanding the consequences and drivers of change, at local and regional scales, especially in northern and alpine environments dominated by a complex cryosphere wh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
4,631 Views
13 Pages

Influence of Surface Water Bodies on the Land Surface Temperature of Bangladesh

  • Najeebullah Khan,
  • Shamsuddin Shahid,
  • Eun-Sung Chung,
  • Sungkon Kim and
  • Rawshan Ali

28 November 2019

Recent climate change has resulted in the reduction of several surface water bodies (SWBs) all around the globe. These SWBs, such as streams, rivers, lakes, wetlands, reservoirs, and creeks have a positive impact on the cooling of the surrounding cli...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,408 Views
14 Pages

The Effects of Land Use Zoning and Densification on Changes in Land Surface Temperature in Seoul

  • Jae-Ik Kim,
  • Myung-Jin Jun,
  • Chang-Hwan Yeo,
  • Ki-Hyun Kwon and
  • Jun Yong Hyun

10 December 2019

This study investigated how changes in land surface temperature (LST) during 2004 and 2014 were attributable to zoning-based land use type in Seoul in association with the building coverage ratio (BCR), floor area ratio (FAR), and a normalized differ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,129 Views
18 Pages

20 February 2023

The micrometeorological elements, radiation budget, and surface energy distribution at four sites with land cover types of vegetable, orchard, maize, and desert in the Heihe River basin (HRB) from June 2012 to September 2012 are compared to investiga...

  • Article
  • Open Access
57 Citations
4,882 Views
15 Pages

Trend Analysis of MODIS Land Surface Temperature and Land Cover in Central Italy

  • Ebrahim Ghaderpour,
  • Paolo Mazzanti,
  • Francesca Bozzano and
  • Gabriele Scarascia Mugnozza

4 June 2024

Land Surface Temperature (LST) is an important climate factor for understanding the relationship between the land surface and atmosphere. Furthermore, LST is linked to soil moisture and evapotranspiration, which can potentially alter the severity and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,750 Views
19 Pages

Normalized Method for Land Surface Temperature Monitoring on Coastal Reclaimed Areas

  • Bahaa Mohamadi,
  • Shuisen Chen,
  • Timo Balz,
  • Khansa Gulshad and
  • Stephen C. McClure

6 November 2019

The temporal analysis of land surface temperature (LST) has generally been studied using data from the same season, as temperature varies greatly over time. However, the cloud cover in thermal remotely sensed images and the coarse resolution of passi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
124 Citations
13,139 Views
21 Pages

10 March 2015

Land surface temperature (LST) is an important parameter in various fields including hydrology, climatology, and geophysics. Its derivation by thermal infrared remote sensing has long tradition but despite substantial progress there remain limited da...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,400 Views
13 Pages

How Do Different Land Uses/Covers Contribute to Land Surface Temperature and Albedo?

  • Saeid Varamesh,
  • Sohrab Mohtaram Anbaran,
  • Bagher Shirmohammadi,
  • Nadir Al-Ansari,
  • Saeid Shabani and
  • Abolfazl Jaafari

17 December 2022

Land surface temperature (LST) and land surface albedo (LSA) are the two key regional and global climate-controlling parameters; assessing their behavior would likely result in a better understanding of the appropriate adaptation strategies to mitiga...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,851 Views
20 Pages

7 November 2022

Average temperatures continue to rise throughout the world due to climate change and, thus, also in Europe, often occurring as heat waves. The negative effects of climate change-related heat waves can be observed, especially in urban areas where land...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,907 Views
25 Pages

The Role of Urban Landscape on Land Surface Temperature: The Case of Muratpaşa, Antalya

  • Mehmet Tahsin Şahin,
  • Halil Hadimli,
  • Çağlar Çakır,
  • Üzeyir Yasak and
  • Furkan Genişyürek

21 March 2025

The role of landscape configuration in urban heat island effects is crucial for sustainable urban planning. This study examines the impact of land-use changes on land surface temperature (LST) in the Muratpaşa District of Antalya from 1984 to 20...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
3,940 Views
18 Pages

In this study, we aim to understand the impact of land use on the urban heat island (UHI) effect across an urban area. Considering the case study of Wuhan, China, land use factors and land surface temperatures (LSTs) of 589 planning management units...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
4,592 Views
20 Pages

28 September 2021

The urban thermal environment is closely related to landscape patterns and land surface characteristics. Several studies have investigated the relationship between land surface characteristics and land surface temperature (LST). To explore the effect...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,558 Views
24 Pages

11 May 2022

Land surface temperature is linked to a wide range of surface processes. Given the increased development of earth observation systems, a large effort has been put into advancing land surface temperature retrieval algorithms from remote sensors. Due t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
7,876 Views
31 Pages

28 October 2022

The promptness of industrialisation and expanding urbanisation to achieve targets of economics are resulting in the transfiguration of permeable surfaces into impervious ones through LULC adaptation, leaving a herculean footprint on the ecosystem. Th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
16,764 Views
21 Pages

Comparison between Air Temperature and Land Surface Temperature for the City of São Paulo, Brazil

  • Augusto Cezar Lima do Nascimento,
  • Emerson Galvani,
  • João Paulo Assis Gobo and
  • Cássio Arthur Wollmann

18 March 2022

This study aims to identify the relationship between changes in temperature regarding urbanization processes and seasonality in the city of São Paulo, located in the Tropic of Capricorn. The land surface temperature (LST) results were compared...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,339 Views
15 Pages

Statistical Gap-Filling of SEVIRI Land Surface Temperature

  • Alexandru Dumitrescu,
  • Marek Brabec and
  • Sorin Cheval

30 April 2020

A reliable and practically useable method for gap filling in hourly Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager (SEVIRI LST) data using ERA5 Land Skin Temperature (ERA5ST) co-variate and additional easily accessible data (elevation, time, solar rad...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
8,623 Views
15 Pages

18 May 2020

This study investigated the spatiotemporal changes of land use land cover (LULC) and its impact on land surface temperature (LST) in the Galle Municipal Council area (GMCA), Sri Lanka. The same was achieved by employing the multi-temporal satellite d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,935 Views
22 Pages

5 April 2024

Rapid urbanisation in the global south has often introduced substantial and rapid uncontrolled Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) changes, considerably affecting the Land Surface Temperature (LST) patterns. Understanding the relationship between LULC cha...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,066 Views
6 Pages

Rapid urbanization in the global south has often introduced substantial and rapid uncontrolled Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) changes. Such abrupt and significant land cover changes considerably affect the Land Surface Temperature (LST) patterns. Und...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,415 Views
23 Pages

28 January 2025

Surface properties in complex urban environments can significantly impact local-level temperature gradients and distribution on several scales. Studying temperature anomalies and identifying heat pockets in urban settings is challenging. Limited high...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,667 Views
14 Pages

The Land Surface Temperature Synergistic Processor in BEAM: A Prototype towards Sentinel-3

  • Ana Belen Ruescas,
  • Olaf Danne,
  • Norman Fomferra and
  • Carsten Brockmann

21 October 2016

Land Surface Temperature (LST) is one of the key parameters in the physics of land-surface processes on regional and global scales, combining the results of all surface-atmosphere interactions and energy fluxes between the surface and the atmosphere....

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,777 Views
20 Pages

27 May 2021

Unsustainable development paths have reached critical levels in Europe. In recent years, in cities, urbanization has been contributing to the intensification of urban heat islands. To analyze the development of surface urban heat islands (SUHI) in Eu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,355 Views
22 Pages

Toward the Detection of Permafrost Using Land-Surface Temperature Mapping

  • Jigjidsurengiin Batbaatar,
  • Alan R. Gillespie,
  • Ronald S. Sletten,
  • Amit Mushkin,
  • Rivka Amit,
  • Darío Trombotto Liaudat,
  • Lu Liu and
  • Gregg Petrie

20 February 2020

Permafrost is degrading under current warming conditions, disrupting infrastructure, releasing carbon from soils, and altering seasonal water availability. Therefore, it is important to quantitatively map the change in the extent and depth of permafr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
5,888 Views
15 Pages

Land-Use/Land Cover Changes Contribute to Land Surface Temperature: A Case Study of the Upper Indus Basin of Pakistan

  • Akhtar Rehman,
  • Jun Qin,
  • Amjad Pervez,
  • Muhammad Sadiq Khan,
  • Siddique Ullah,
  • Khalid Ahmad and
  • Nazir Ur Rehman

14 January 2022

Land-use/land cover (LULC) changes have an impact on land surface temperature (LST) at the local, regional, and global scales. To simulate the LULC and LST changes of the environmentally important area of northern Pakistan, this research focused on s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,424 Views
27 Pages

3 May 2024

Remote sensing technologies are critical for analyzing the escalating impacts of global climate change and increasing urbanization, providing vital insights into land surface temperature (LST), land use and cover (LULC) changes, and the identificatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
67 Citations
10,871 Views
24 Pages

7 December 2016

This study aims to evaluate quantitatively the land surface temperature (LST) derived from MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) MOD11A1 and MYD11A1 Collection 5 products for daily land air surface temperature (Ta) estimation over a m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,439 Views
23 Pages

The Impact of Urbanization-Induced Land Use Change on Land Surface Temperature

  • Afera Halefom,
  • Yan He,
  • Tatsuya Nemoto,
  • Lei Feng,
  • Runkui Li,
  • Venkatesh Raghavan,
  • Guifei Jing,
  • Xianfeng Song and
  • Zheng Duan

30 November 2024

Rapid urbanization can change local climate by increasing land surface temperature (LST), particularly in metropolitan regions. This study uses two decades of remote sensing data to investigate how urbanization-induced changes in land use/land cover...

  • Article
  • Open Access
69 Citations
11,743 Views
23 Pages

5 October 2020

Mountainous regions are more sensitive to climatic condition changes and are susceptible to recent increases in temperature. Due to urbanization and land use/land cover (LULC) issues, Cameron Highlands has been impacted by rising land surface tempera...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,035 Views
16 Pages

27 May 2017

The relationship between urban land surface material fractions (ULSMFs) and brightness temperature has long attracted attention in research on urban environments. In this paper, a multiple endmember spectral mixture analysis (MESMA) method was applie...

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