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Remote Sensing for Land & Resources    2018, Vol. 30 Issue (1) : 78-86     DOI: 10.6046/gtzyyg.2018.01.11
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Downscaling land surface temperature based on random forest algorithm
Junwei HUA(), Shanyou ZHU(), Guixin ZHANG
School of Geography and Remote Sensing, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
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Abstract  

Land surface temperature(LST)is an important parameter in the model of energy balance of the earth surface. The enhanced spatial resolution of high temporal resolution of remote sensing surface temperature can be realized by downscaling algorithm, which is of great significance for monitoring the spatial and temporal distribution of the LST. In this paper, Beijing City was taken as the study area, and the LST with 100 m spatial resolution was retrieved by using Landsat8 OLI/TIRS data through improved mono-window(IMW)algorithm,which was used as validation data. Besides,the normalized difference vegetation index(NDVI),normalized difference built-up index(NDBI)and other remote sensing index were calculated and simulated to the spatial resolution of 1 000 m, which was united with the MODIS/LST with the spatial resolution of 1 000 m to be input into the random forest(RF)model to acquire downscaled LST(100 m). Meanwhile, the downscaled results retrieved by RF algorithm were compared with the two commonly used methods of downscaling, multi factor regression method and LST sharpening algorithm based on vegetation index (TsHARP). The results show that, with the simulated Landsat/LST as the data source, the RMSE of downscaling LST retrieved by RF was 2.01 K, and the RMSE was improved by 0.16 K and 0.44 K compared with the multi factor regression method and TsHARP algorithm respectively. For the MODIS/LST, the RMSE of downscaling LST retrieved by RF was 2.29 K, and the RMSE was improved by 0.42 K and 0.50 K compared with multi factor regression method and TsHARP algorithm respectively. For different land surface types, the effects of RF downscaling algorithm are different. The effect of high vegetation coverage area is the best, and the RMSE is 1.81 K. Due to the spatial heterogeneity of the urban surface, the RMSEhas reached a maximum of 2.75 K.

Keywords remote sensing      land surface temperature(LST)      downscale      random forest(RF)     
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Issue Date: 08 February 2018
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Junwei HUA,Shanyou ZHU,Guixin ZHANG. Downscaling land surface temperature based on random forest algorithm[J]. Remote Sensing for Land & Resources, 2018, 30(1): 78-86.
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Fig.1  Building process of random forest
Fig.2  Model error changes with number of Decision Tree
Fig.3  Importance of random forest variables
Fig.4  Downscaled results at various resolution scales from simulated Landsat/LST
分辨率/
m
RMSE / K R2
随机
森林法
多因子
回归法
TsHARP
随机
森林法
多因子
回归法
TsHARP
500 0.87 1.17 1.11 0.69 0.65 0.59
200 1.62 1.70 1.78 0.57 0.54 0.52
100 2.01 2.17 2.45 0.52 0.49 0.45
Tab.1  RMSEs of downscaled LST at various resolution scales
Fig.5  Downscaled results of vegetation area
Fig.6  Downscaled results of water area
Fig.7  Downscaled results of urban area
验证区域 RMSE/K R2
随机
森林法
多因子
回归法
TsHARP
随机
森林法
多因子
回归法
TsHARP
全局 2.29 2.71 2.79
植被 1.81 2.01 2.02 0.56 0.46 0.44
水域 2.09 2.57 2.85 0.58 0.43 0.42
城镇 2.75 2.93 2.93 0.21 0.01 0.07
Tab.3  Precision of downscaled MODIS/LST in various regions for different methods
Fig.8  Error histogram of Random Forest downscaling method
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