Urban surface temperature is hazardously higher than surrounding regions (so-called urban heat island effect UHI). Accurately simulating urbanization-induced temperature hazard is critical for realistically representing urban regions in the land surface-atmosphere climate system. However, inclusion of urban landscapes in regional or global climate models has been overlooked due to the coarse sp...

Challenges in the design of solid-state imagers for industrial measurement and control include: high image resolution, wide temperature range, adequate temperature resolution, high measurement speed, thermal stability of the sensor chip, and most importantly, low cost. However, they have the inherent disadvantage that their temperature information is strongly dependent on the emissivity of the ...

Introduction: The current understanding of lunar surface mineralogy largely comes from two sources: samples (Apollo and meteorite [e.g. 1]) and remote near-infrared spectroscopic measurements (telescopic and Clementine [e.g. 2]). Samples provide detailed compositional analysis of a limited number of sites across the lunar surface and NIR measurements provide global, high-resolution coverage of ...

[1] Volcano observatories and researchers are recognizing the potential usefulness of thermal imaging cameras both before and during volcanic eruptions. Obvious applications include measurements of the surface temperatures of active lava domes and lava flows to determine the location of the most active parts of these potentially hazardous features. If appropriate precautions are taken, the new ...

Abstract We present a cryogenic method for testing of thermal radiative properties materials commonly used in ground-based systems as well space probes. It is possible to measure total hemispherical emissivity or absorptivity metallic dielectric surfaces (0.1% - 100%) the range temperatures from 10 K up 320 source radiation. Emissivity control coatings probe JUICE are presented together with ot...

The efficiency of the application of high-emissivity coatings on the furnace walls in steam cracking technology can only be evaluated on the asis of a description of radiative heat transfer distinguishing between the frequency bands. To this end, a non-grey gas radiation model based on he exponential wide band model (EWBM) has been developed and applied in the context of three-dimensional CFD s...

An autonomous system for field land surface temperature (LST) measurements taken at different observation angles was developed to be deployed easily at any conventional meteorological tower station. The system permits ground-truth data to be acquired on a continuous basis, and angularly scans land and sky hemispheres with a single thermal-infrared (TIR) radiometer. This paper describes the auto...

A single channel land surface temperature (LST) retrieval algorithm named Single Channel Water Vapor Dependent (SCWVD) method was presented for Medium Resolution Spectral Imager (MERSI) thermal infrared band aboard FengYun-3A (FY-3A) satellite. Water Vapor Content (WVC) is the only input parameter in the algorithm assuming the surface emissivity is known. NCEP reanalysis monthly mean datasets a...

Infrared switching electrochromic devices based on tungsten oxide" (2000). Faculty Publications from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. 4. Different types of electrochromic devices for thermal emittance modulation were developed in the spectral region from mid-to far-infrared ͑2–40 ␮m͒. In all devices polycrystalline and amorphous tungsten oxide have been used as electrochromi...

Selective filtering of spectral and angular optical transmission has recently attracted a great deal of interest. While optical passband and stop-band spectral filters are already widely used, angle-selective transmission and reflection filtering represents a less than fully explored alternative. Nonetheless, this approach can be promising for several applications, including stray radiation min...