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Land-surface temperature - emissivity retrieval
Retrieves surface temperature and spectral emissivity from TIR radiance measurements; good for urban heat islands, drought stress monitoring, and surface energy balance studies.
Separates emissivity from temperature using split-window or temperature-emissivity separation algorithms. Requires accurate atmospheric correction. Wikipedia: Land surface temperature
- VectorSurv Vectorborne Disease Surveillance System
- ASTER (Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer)
via Terra
ASTER thermal infrared bands and ASTER GED support surface temperature and emissivity retrieval from Terra observations.
- MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer)
via Terra
MODIS MOD21 retrieves LST and emissivity from thermal infrared bands 29, 31, and 32 at 1 km nadir resolution.
- ECOSTRESS (ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station)
via ECOSTRESS ISS deployment
ECOSTRESS acquires high-resolution surface temperature and emissivity imagery; the instrument provides five TIR bands used for LST/emissivity products.
- TIRS (Landsat 8 Thermal Infrared Sensor)
via Landsat 8
Landsat Collection 2 Surface Temperature is derived from Landsat thermal infrared observations; Landsat 8 TIRS supplies Bands 10 and 11 at 100 m native resolution.
- SLSTR (Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer)
via Sentinel-3A
SLSTR products include land surface temperature, with thermal infrared channels used for temperature retrieval.
- Infrared Multispectral Scanner - 2
via Huan Jing-2A
IRMSS-2 includes MWIR/TIR window channels and WMO lists land surface temperature as a high-relevance variable.
- CBERS-4 Infrared Multispectral Scanner 2
via CBERS-4
IRMSS-2 is the CBERS-4 infrared multispectral scanner.
- Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager
via Meteosat-10
SEVIRI IR 8.7, IR 10.8, IR 12.0 channels support operational LST retrieval; EUMETSAT NWP SAF publishes LST product.
- MSU-MR VIS/IR Imaging Radiometer
via Meteor-M N2-4
MSU-MR TIR channels at 10.5-11.5 µm and 11.5-12.5 µm support land-surface temperature and emissivity retrieval; WMO OSCAR lists land-surface temperature as a measured variable.
- FY-4B Advanced Geostationary Radiation Imager
via FY-4B
FY-4B AGRI TIR channels (C12-C14: 8.5, 10.8, 12.0 µm) support LST retrieval; application documented in AGRI product literature.
- AEISS-A
via KOMPSAT-3A
KOMPSAT-3A IIS MWIR channel (3.3-5.2 µm, 5.5 m GSD) demonstrated for land-surface temperature retrieval and thermal anomaly detection; day/night capability stated by KARI.
- ORCA Fused Optical & Thermal
- ORCA Medium Class Thermal Orthos
- Visual and Infrared Multispectral Sensorpending review
VIMS is recorded as a visual/infrared multispectral sensor similar to ASTER, fitting thermal land-surface retrieval when TIR channels are present.
Retrieves ocean skin or subskin temperature from calibrated thermal-infrared split-window radiances, with passive-microwave radiometry providing coarser all-weather SST continuity.
- [1]Wikipedia: Land surface temperaturecommunity2026-05-22
Edited from public sources. Last reviewed 2026-05-22 by SpectraWorks editorial. See the data dictionary for field definitions.
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Land-surface temperature - emissivity retrieval. EO-Atlas, SpectraWorks B.V., last reviewed 2026-05-22. https://eo-atlas.org/topics/methodologies/lst-emissivity-retrieval (CC BY 4.0)
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@misc{eoatlas:topics:methodologies:lst-emissivity-retrieval,
title = {Land-surface temperature - emissivity retrieval},
author = {{EO-Atlas}},
publisher = {SpectraWorks B.V.},
year = {2026},
note = {Last reviewed 2026-05-22. CC BY 4.0},
url = {https://eo-atlas.org/topics/methodologies/lst-emissivity-retrieval}
}