Publications

Uspenskii, A. B.; Kukharskii, A. V.; Uspenskii, S. A. (2015). Validation of the results of the satellite monitoring of land surface temperature. RUSSIAN METEOROLOGY AND HYDROLOGY, 40(2), 131-140.

Abstract
Considered are the methods for analyzing the reliability (validation) of the estimates of land surface temperature T (s) retrieved from the data of polar orbiting and geostationary meteorological satellites. Given is a brief description of the satellite payload (scanning radiometers) and algorithms of remote determination of T (s) from the satellite data. For validating the satellite estimates of T (s) it is proposed to use the cross-validation procedure, i.e., the comparison with independent satellite estimates of T (s) for which the error level is known. Presented are the results of cross-validation of two independent satellite estimates of retrieved T (s) from the data of SEVIRI/Meteosat-10, MODIS/Terra, and Aqua instruments. Such procedure can be applied to validate the estimates of T (s) which are planned to be retrieved from the data of Meteor-M and Elektro-L Russian meteorological satellites. Demonstrated is the limited suitability of standard in situ observations of soil temperature at the network of weather stations for validating the satellite estimates of T-s .

DOI:
10.3103/S1068373915020107

ISSN:
1068-3739