land surface temperature modeling using noaa-avhrr thermal data

Land Cover Characterization Using Multitemporal Red, Near-ir, and Thermal-ir Data from Noaa/avhrr

Development of a daily long term record of NOAA-14 AVHRR land surface temperature over Africa

We developed a new 6-year daily, daytime and nighttime, NOAA-14 AVHRR based land surface temperature (LST) dataset over continental Africa for the period 1995 through 2000. The processing chain was developed within the Global Inventory Modeling and Mapping System (GIMMS) at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. This paper describes the processing methodology used to convert the Global Area Covera...

Burned land mapping using NOAA-AVHRR and TERRA-MODIS

Spatial and temporal analysis of MODIS and AVHRR images have been carried out to discriminate burned areas from other land covers. Spatial and temporal analysis were performed based on statistical separability and temporal changes. The objective of these analysis was to find out the most sensitive bands for burned land mapping in order to design spectral indices better adapted to the discrimina...

Integrating AVHRR satellite data and NOAA ground observations to predict surface air temperature: a statistical approach

Ground station temperature data are not commonly used simultaneously with the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) to model and predict air temperature or land surface temperature. Technology was developed to acquire near-synchronous datasets over a 1 000 000 km region with the goal of improving the measurement of air temperature at the surface. This study compares several statistic...

Spring Wheat Yield Assessment Using Noaa Avhrr Data

A potential application of the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) is to monitor crop yields over large areas. The study concentrated on the spring Mheat areas of North Dakota and South Dakota for several years (1989-1992). The NOAA AVHRR data was carefully analyzed to minimize processing and sampling errors. Sums of biweekly NDVI county averages over an eight week period from heading...

Effects of orbital drift on land surface temperature measured by AVHRR thermal sensors

The NOAA series of meteorological satellites that carry the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) suffer from orbital drift so that during each satellite’s duty period the overpass time occurs later in the day. Replacement satellites restore the overpass time temporarily, but then it gradually decays. The goals of this paper are to document the effects of variable observation time ow...