Monitoring Spatio-temporal Variance of an Extreme Heat Event Using Multiple-source Remote Sensing Data

Extreme heat events have serious effects on human daily life. Accurately capturing the dynamic variance of extreme high-temperature distributions in a timely manner is the basis for analyzing the potential impacts of extreme heat, thereby informing risk prevention strategies. This paper demonstrates the potential application of multiple source remote sensing data in mapping and monitoring the extreme heat events that occurred on Aug. 8, 2013 in Jiangsu Province, China. In combination with MODIS products, the thermal sharpening(Ts HARP) method and a binary linear model are compared to downscale the original daytime FengY un 2 F(FY-2 F) land surface temperature(LST) imagery, with a temporal resolution of 60 min, from 5 km to 1 km. Using the meteorological measurement data from Nanjing station as the reference, the research then estimates the instantaneous air temperature by using an iterative computation based on the Surface Energy Balance Algorithm for Land(SEBAL), which is used to analyze the spatio-temporal air temperature variance. The results show that the root mean square error(RMSE) of the LST downscaled from the binary linear model is 1.30℃ compared to the synchronous MODIS LST, and on this basis the estimated air temperature has the RMSE of 1.78℃. The spatial and temporal distribution of air temperature variance at each geographical location from 06:30 to 18:30 can be accurately determined, and indicates that the high temperature gradually increases and expands from the city center. For the spatial distribution, the air temperature and the defined scorching temperature proportion index increase from northern to middle, to southern part of Jiangsu, and are slightly lower in the eastern area near the Yellow Sea. In terms of temporal characteristics, the percentage of area with air temperature above 37℃ in each city increase with time after 10:30 and reach the peak value at 14:30 or 15:30. Then, they decrease gradually, and the rising and falling trends become smaller from the southern cities to the northern regions. Moreover, there is a distinct positive relationship between the percentage of area above 37℃ and the population density. The above results show that the spatio-temporal distributions of heat waves and their influencing factors can be determined by combining multiple sources of remotely sensed image data.

Application of MODTRAN Model in Atmospheric Correction of HJ/CCD Data

MODTRAN model was used for the atmospheric correction of one HJ-1B / CCD2 image,and the effect of atmospheric correction was evaluated from the changes of spectral characteristics of typical ground objects,the comparison with the MODIS surface reflectance product,and the effect on normalized differential vegetation index( NDVI). The results show that atmospheric correction eliminated the increase effect in visible bands and the absorption in near-infrared band. Atmospheric correction results and the MODIS surface reflectance product with high accuracy were highly consistent in the reflectance of vegetation,water and residents,and the average error of vegetation was 12.8%. According to the comparison of changing characteristics of NDVI before and after atmospheric correction,it could be found that atmospheric correction had corrected NDVI of mixed pixels and made it more reasonable. NDVI of each kind of ground objects improved,among which NDVI of vegetation increased most greatly,which can help differentiate vegetation from other ground objects. In a word,MODTRAN model has a good effect on atmospheric correction of HJ /CCD images.