Improving Land Surface Temperature Estimation in Cloud Cover Scenarios using Graph-Based Propagation
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Land surface temperature (LST) serves as an important climate variable which is relevant to a number of studies related to energy and water exchanges, vegetation growth and urban heat island effects. Although LST can be derived from satellite observations, these approaches rely on cloud-free acquisitions. This represents a significant obstacle in regions which are prone to cloud cover. In this paper, a graph-based propagation method, referred to as GraphProp, is introduced. This method can accurately obtain LST values which would otherwise have been missing due to cloud cover. To validate this approach, a series of experiments are presented using synthetically-obscured Landsat acquisitions. The validation takes place over scenarios ranging from between 10% and 90% cloud cover across six urban locations. In presented experiments, GraphProp recovers missing LST values with a mean absolute error of less than 1.1ºC, 1.0ºC and 1.8°C in 90% cloud cover scenarios across the studied locations respectively.
Source: Apollo (University of Cambridge)
DOI: 10.17863/cam.113672
Authors: Rolland, Iain, Selvakumaran, Sakthy, Marinoni, Andrea
Language: English
Topic: Urban Heat Island Mitigation
Subfield: Environmental Engineering
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
SDG: Climate action
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6887818304
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