Regression-Kriging Technique to Downscale Satellite-Derived Land Surface Temperature in Heterogeneous Agricultural Landscape

The study introduces regression-kriging technique to downscale land surface temperature (LST) over a heterogeneous landscape of India and compares it with other models. All models are initially tested on aggregated 960 m Landsat LST and downscaled to 240 m (RMSE = 0.45°C) and 120 m (RMSE = 0.68°C) resolution. Finally, the MODIS LST is downscaled to 250 m (RMSE = 0.7°C) resolution. The proposed model outperformed compared to other models. The qualitative assessment reveals appearance of box-like structure is not seen in the proposed model-derived LST due to reconstruction of residual.

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