The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard the Terra and Aqua satellites, which provides a very high temporal (four times per day) and spatial (1 km) resolution, has become one of the most important and widely used sensors for a broad range of applications. We analyze 529 articles from 159 journals in the Scopus database from 2009 to 2018 to understand the global and longitudinal trends of MODIS land surface temperature (LST) data applications. The results show that the publications of papers related to MODIS LST data have been steadily rising annually. They spanned 19 subject areas from environmental, agricultural, and biological science to social science and medicine, indicating a wide range of MODIS LST data applications. Among the 159 journals, Remote Sensing of Environment, Remote Sensing, and the International Journal of Remote Sensing published the most articles. The study also showed that urban heat island (UHI), air temperature estimation/mapping (Ta estimation), soil moisture, evapotranspiration estimation, and drought monitoring/estimation were the most popular applications of MODIS LST data. Furthermore, we discuss the strengths, limitations, and future direction of research using MODIS LST data.
The Landsat-7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) is the sensor payload on the Landsat-7 satellite imager
(launched on April 15th, 1999) that is a derivative of the Landsat-4 and 5 Thematic Mapper (TM) land imager sensors.
Scan Line Corrector (SLC) malfunctioning appeared onboard on May 31, 2003. The SLC-Off problem was caused by
failure of the SLC which compensates for the forward motion of the satellite [1]. As ETM+ is still capable of acquiring
images with the SLC-Off mode, the need of applying new techniques and using other data sources to reconstruct the
missed data is a challenging for scientists and final users of remotely sensed images. One of the predicted future roles of
the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) onboard the Earth Observer One (EO-1) is its ability to offer a potential technological
direction for Landsat data continuity missions [2]. In this regard more than the purposes of the work as fabricating the
gapped area in the ETM+ the attempt to evaluate the ALI imagery ability is another noticeable point in this work. In the
literature there are several techniques and algorithms for gap filling. For instance local linear histogram matching [3],
ordinary kriging, and standardized ordinary cokriging [4]. Here we used the Regression Based Data Combination
(RBDC) in which it is generally supposed that two data sets (i.e. Landsat/ETM+ and EO-1/ALI) in the same spectral
ranges (for instance band 3 ETM+ and band 4 ALI in 0.63 - 0.69 μm) will have meaningful and useable statistical
characteristics. Using this relationship the gap area in ETM+ can be filled using EO-1/ALI data. Therefore the process is
based on the knowledge of statistical structures of the images which is used to reconstruct the gapped areas. This paper
presents and compares four regression based techniques. First two ordinary methods with no improvement in the
statistical parameters were undertaken as Scene Based (SB) and Cluster Based (CB) followed by two statistically
developed algorithms including Buffer Based (BB) and Weighted Buffer Based (WBB) techniques. All techniques are
executed and evaluated over a study area in Sulawesi, Indonesia. The results indicate that the WBB and CB approaches
have superiority over the SB and BB methods.
Conference Committee Involvement (12)
Earth Resources and Environmental Remote Sensing/GIS Applications
23 September 2014 | Amsterdam, Netherlands
Earth Resources and Environmental Remote Sensing/GIS Applications IV
23 September 2013 | Dresden, Germany
Earth Resources and Environmental Remote Sensing/GIS Applications
25 September 2012 | Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Earth Resources and Environmental Remote Sensing/GIS Applications
20 September 2011 | Prague, Czech Republic
Earth Resources and Environmental Remote Sensing/GIS Applications
21 September 2010 | Toulouse, France
Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring, GIS Applications, and Geology IX
31 August 2009 | Berlin, Germany
Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring, GIS Applications, and Geology VIII
15 September 2008 | Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring, GIS Applications, and Geology
17 September 2007 | Florence, Italy
Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring, GIS Applications, and Geology VI
13 September 2006 | Stockholm, Sweden
Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring, GIS Applications, and Geology V
19 September 2005 | Bruges, Belgium
Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring, GIS Applications, and Geology IV
14 September 2004 | Maspalomas, Canary Islands, Spain
Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring, GIS Applications, and Geology III
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