Comparison of Land Surface Temperature from AIRS and MODIS
Abstract
Level 3 gridded global land surface temperature products from the EOS AIRS and MODIS sensors are compared over a 12 month period beginning January 2003. These sensors are precursors for the CrIS/IASI and VIIRS sensors on the NPOESS platforms. Monthly mean land surface temperature estimates from the Aqua AIRS sensors at 1 degree spatial resolution are compared with the corresponding estimates from the Aqua MODIS sensor averaged over the same spatial domain. Global difference maps in land surface temperature have been produced at 1 degree spatial resolution along with time series plots of the monthly AIRS and MODIS differences for selected geographic regions. Preliminary evaluation of these product differences will be investigated using detailed case studies.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2005
- Bibcode:
- 2005AGUFM.B51B0208K
- Keywords:
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- 0394 Instruments and techniques;
- 1631 Land/atmosphere interactions (1218;
- 1843;
- 3322)