Evaluation of Radiometric Performance for the Thermal Infrared Sensor Onboard Landsat 8
<p>Distributions of the ground sites. The background image came from the MODIS global NDVI product at Day 257, 2013, with a spatial resolution of 0.05°.</p> "> Figure 2
<p>Temperature noise of the TIRS two bands for different land covers and brightness temperatures.</p> "> Figure 3
<p>Histograms of temperature noise for the TIRS two bands based on the ground samples.</p> "> Figure 4
<p>Variation of temperature noise with brightness temperature for the TIRS two bands. Unfilled squares stand for the noise calculated from all land covers, while the stars stand for the result calculated without desert and vegetation samples.</p> "> Figure 5
<p>An example of TIRS images with spatial discontinuity. (<b>a</b>) False-color image from Operational Land Imager (OLI) near-infrared, red and green bands; (<b>b</b>) Band 10 of TIRS; (<b>c</b>) Band 11 of TIRS.</p> ">
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Method and Data
2.1. Method
2.2. Landsat 8 Image Data
3. Results and Analysis
3.1. NEΔT of TIRS Images
Band 10 | |||||
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Land Covers | Min BT (K) | Max BT (K) | Avg. σ (K) | Min σ (K) | Max σ (K) |
Lake | 275.0 | 299.6 | 0.059 | 0.045 | 0.097 |
Ocean | 271.8 | 297.6 | 0.051 | 0.032 | 0.105 |
Snow | 222.1 | 270.5 | 0.073 | 0.041 | 0.286 |
Desert | 266.1 | 321.3 | 0.112 | 0.037 | 0.316 |
Dense vegetation | 292.9 | 297.5 | 0.101 | 0.061 | 0.138 |
Band 11 | |||||
Lake | 275.8 | 299.6 | 0.062 | 0.041 | 0.105 |
Ocean | 269.8 | 295.5 | 0.057 | 0.042 | 0.165 |
Snow | 217.9 | 267.7 | 0.084 | 0.041 | 0.303 |
Desert | 266.3 | 322.3 | 0.112 | 0.045 | 0.352 |
Dense vegetation | 287.3 | 296.0 | 0.110 | 0.055 | 0.151 |
Band No. | From All Land Covers | Without Desert and Vegetation | ||||
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240 K | 280 K | 300 K | 240 K | 280 K | 300 K | |
Band 10 | 0.075 | 0.089 | 0.086 | 0.075 | 0.055 | 0.051 |
Band 11 | 0.083 | 0.091 | 0.092 | 0.083 | 0.056 | 0.060 |
3.2. Effect of NEΔT on LST Retrieval
4. Discussions
4.1. Time Variation of the Radiometric Response of the Instrument
4.2. Pixel-to-Pixel Radiometric Variation in the Linear Array System
5. Conclusions
Acknowledgments
Author Contributions
Conflicts of Interest
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Ren, H.; Du, C.; Liu, R.; Qin, Q.; Meng, J.; Li, Z.-L.; Yan, G. Evaluation of Radiometric Performance for the Thermal Infrared Sensor Onboard Landsat 8. Remote Sens. 2014, 6, 12776-12788. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs61212776
Ren H, Du C, Liu R, Qin Q, Meng J, Li Z-L, Yan G. Evaluation of Radiometric Performance for the Thermal Infrared Sensor Onboard Landsat 8. Remote Sensing. 2014; 6(12):12776-12788. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs61212776
Chicago/Turabian StyleRen, Huazhong, Chen Du, Rongyuan Liu, Qiming Qin, Jinjie Meng, Zhao-Liang Li, and Guangjian Yan. 2014. "Evaluation of Radiometric Performance for the Thermal Infrared Sensor Onboard Landsat 8" Remote Sensing 6, no. 12: 12776-12788. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs61212776