Publications

Ye, X; Ren, HZ; Liang, YZ; Zhu, JS; Guo, JX; Nie, J; Zeng, H; Zhao, YH; Qian, YG (2021). Cross-calibration of Chinese Gaofen-5 thermal infrared images and its improvement on land surface temperature retrieval. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF APPLIED EARTH OBSERVATION AND GEOINFORMATION, 101, 102357.

Abstract
Thermal infrared (TIR) remote sensing technology is capable of acquiring large-scale land surface temperature (LST), which is a key factor in the energy exchange between land surface and atmosphere. The visible and infrared multispectral sensor (VIMS) equipped in the Chinese Gaofen-5 (GF-5) satellite can obtain four channels of TIR images with a 40 m spatial resolution. However, due to the change of working environment, the TIR sensor suffers a low-accurate radiometric calibration that needs improvement. This paper puts forward a new crosscalibration for GF-5/VIMS TIR images by linking the top of the atmosphere (TOA) radiance of the vertical angle MODIS observation with the GF-5/VIMS image to estimate the radiometric calibration coefficients, Gain and Offset. To verify the recalibration performance, a new nonlinear two-channel split-window (SW) algorithm and a light gradient boosting machine (LightGBM) method which is used to refine LST from the SW algorithm by minimizing the residuals, were developed for the recalibrated GF-5/VIMS TIR 3 and TIR 4 channels. The radiometric cross-calibration algorithm and the optimized SW algorithm were applied to real GF-5/VIMS TIR images. The validation results showed that the brightness temperature and LST were improved significantly, and the LST retrieval error was reduced greatly to 1.79 K after recalibration, indicating a large improvement of the LST retrieval for GF-5/VIMS TIR image using the proposed cross-calibration and SW algorithms.

DOI:
10.1016/j.jag.2021.102357

ISSN:
1569-8432