Vol. 11, No. 2, 123-131, 2012

Reconstruction of cloud-free time series satellite observations of land surface temperature
Hamid Reza Ghafarian, Massimo Menenti, Li Jia, and Hendrik den Ouden

Abstract
Time series satellite observations of land surface properties, like Land Surface Temperature (LST), often feature missing data or data with anomalous values due to cloud coverage, malfunction of sensor, atmospheric aerosols, defective cloud masking and retrieval algorithms. Preprocessing procedures are needed to identify anomalous observations resulting in gaps and outliers and then reconstruct the time series by filling the gaps. Hourly LST observations, estimated from radiometric data acquired by the Single channel Visible and Infrared Spin Scan Radiometer (S-VISSR) sensor onboard the Fengyun-2C (FY-2C) Chinese geostationary satellite have been used in this study which cover the whole Tibetan Plateau from 2008 through 2010 with a 5×5 km² spatial resolution. Multi-channel Singular Spectrum Analysis (M-SSA), an advanced methodology of time series analysis, has been utilized to reconstruct LST time series. The results show that this methodology has the ability to fill the gaps and also remove the outliers (both positive and negative). To validate the methodology, we employed LST ground measurements and created artificial gaps. The results indicated with 63% of hourly gaps in the time series, the Mean Absolute Error (MAE) reached 2.25 Kelvin (K) with = 0.83. This study shows the ability of M-SSA that uses temporal and spatio-temporal correlation to fill the gaps to reconstruct LST time series.

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History
Submitted: 31 Oct 2012
Accepted: 23 Nov 2012
Published: 30 Nov 2012
Responsible editor: Robin Vaughan

Citation
Ghafarian H R, M Menenti, Li Jia & H den Ouden, 2012. Reconstruction of cloud-free time series satellite observations of land surface temperature. EARSeL eProceedings, 11(2): 123-131

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