Thermal infrared remote sensing for analysis of landscape ecological processes: methods and applications

摘要: Thermal infrared (TIR) remote sensing data can provide important measurements of surface energy fluxes and temperatures, which are integral to understanding landscape processes responses. One example this is the successful application TIR estimate evapotranspiration soil moisture, where results from a number studies suggest that satellite-based lead more accurate regional-scale estimates daily evapotranspiration. With further refinement in analytical techniques models, use airborne satellite sensors could be very useful for parameterizing moisture conditions developing better simulations exchange over variety space time scales. Thus, significantly contribute observation, measurement, analysis balance characteristics (i.e., redistribution thermal within across land surface) as an implicit aspect dynamics functioning. The ecological has been limited, however, several fundamental reasons relate primarily perceived difficulty availability these by ecology community, fragmentation references on throughout scientific literature. It our purpose here evidence work employed illustrate how improved measurement response flux relationships. We examine direct or indirect analyze biophysical characteristics, thereby offering some insight used robustly modeling processes.