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Remote Sensing for Natural Resources    2025, Vol. 37 Issue (4) : 68-76     DOI: 10.6046/zrzyyg.2024083
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A method for inversion of urban land surface temperature and its application in domestic high-resolution thermal infrared data
LI Jinglun1,2,3(), CHEN Hong4, LI Kun1,2, DOU Xianhui5, ZHAO Hang6, ZENG Jian6, ZHANG Xuewen6, QIAN Yonggang1,2()
1. Key Laboratory of Digital Earth Science, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China
2. International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals, Beijing 100094, China
3. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
4. China Aero Geophysical Survey and Remote Sensing Center for Land and Resources, Beijing 100083, China
5. Land Satellite Remote Sensing Application Center, Ministry of Natural Resources, Beijing 100048, China
6. China Centre for Resources Satellite Data and Application, Beijing 100049, China
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Abstract  

Compared to natural surfaces, urban surfaces have more complex geometric structures, leading to significant impacts of the multiple scattering effect within pixels and the neighborhood effect on the inversion results of urban land surface temperature (LST). This study proposed a novel urban LST inversion algorithm that integrates machine learning and an enhanced temperature and emissivity separation (TES) method. Finally, the proposed algorithm was applied to China’s SDGSAT-1 thermal infrared data. The algorithm comprises three key steps: First, the inversion of urban canopy brightness temperature from SDGSAT-1 data was conducted using the eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) algorithm. Second, an enhanced TES algorithm based on the sky view factor (SVF) was developed to account for urban geometry, enabling high-precision urban LST inversion. Third, the accuracy of the inversion algorithm was assessed and applied to the urban area of Beijing. The results demonstrate that inversion using an XGBoost algorithm and a split-window algorithm yielded root mean squared errors (RMSEs) of approximately 0.2 K and 1.2 K, respectively. The LST RMSEs with and without available water vapor data were determined at 0.36 K and 0.73 K, respectively; and the LSE RMSEs under three bands were 0.020/0.026, 0.018/0.023, and 0.020/0.023, respectively. The differences in the LST inversion results derived using the original and improved TES algorithm ranged from 0 to 1.86 K.

Keywords SDGSAT-1      remote sensing retrieval      urban land surface temperature (LST)      sky view factor (SVF)      machine learning     
ZTFLH:  TP79  
Issue Date: 03 September 2025
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Jinglun LI,Hong CHEN,Kun LI, et al. A method for inversion of urban land surface temperature and its application in domestic high-resolution thermal infrared data[J]. Remote Sensing for Natural Resources, 2025, 37(4): 68-76.
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项目 指标
幅宽/km 300
波段范围/μm 8~10.5
10.3~11.3
11.5~12.5
空间分辨率/m 30
Tab.1  SDGSAT-1 satellite thermal infrared spectrometer technical specifications
Fig.1  DSM of the Beijing urban area
Fig.2  Technology roadmap for urban LST retrieval
Fig.3  Scatterplot of εmin and MMD with different SVFin values
S V F i n 系数
a b c RMSE
0.1 0.996 5 1.229 9 1.028 4 0.001 6
0.2 0.993 1 1.164 0 1.021 3 0.003 2
0.3 0.989 8 1.118 3 1.014 4 0.004 7
0.4 0.986 4 1.082 3 1.007 9 0.006 2
0.5 0.983 2 1.052 2 1.001 7 0.007 6
0.6 0.980 0 1.026 4 0.995 7 0.009 1
0.7 0.976 8 1.003 6 0.989 9 0.010 5
0.8 0.973 6 0.983 4 0.984 4 0.011 9
0.9 0.970 5 0.965 1 0.979 0 0.013 2
1.0 0.967 4 0.948 4 0.973 9 0.014 6
Tab.2  Regression coefficients and RMSE of the SVFin-MMD relationship
Fig.4  Results of comparison between SW and XGBoost
T g i T g 1 T g 2 T g 3
波段组合 B1&B2 3T 3T+WVC B1&B2 3T 3T+WVC B1&B2 3T 3T+WVC
RMSE/K 1.21 0.88 0.21 1.13 0.68 0.19 1.11 0.85 0.19
Tab.3  Comparison of the best band combinations between XGBoost and SW
Fig.5  Cumulative probability distribution of the difference between actual and retrieved LST/LSE
Fig.6  RMSE of LSE for 3 SDGSAT-1 TIR bands
Fig.7  Difference between LST obtained by the TES algorithm and the XGB-TES algorithm for different groups of SVFin and SVFadj
Fig.8  Figure of LST and SVFin results in Beijing
Fig.9  Temperature difference boxplot
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