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Flow direction
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Temperature ( ° C)
High : 30
Meters
Low : 7,4
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1000
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Temperature ( ° C)
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Figure 5.11 Geo-referenced natural-color image of the Roseg floodplain (a), airborne TIR image (b), and (c) frequency distribution
radiant temperatures in TIR image ( C) at 15:00 (23 August 2004) (D. Tonolla, personal communication).
practical approach we took will be useful for the applica-
tion of TIR remote sensing and can be successfully used
in thermal monitoring of riverine landscapes.
reproduced from the MODIS Emissivity Library. This
data set was collected by Dr. Zhengming Wan's Group
at ICESS (Institute for Computational Earth System Sci-
ence) located on the campus of UCSB (University of
California, Santa Barbara). Any use of trade, product, or
firm names is for descriptive purposes only and does not
imply endorsement by the United States Government.
We acknowledge the extensive contributions of M. Boyd
(formerly with the Oregon Department of Environmen-
tal Quality, Portland, Oregon (USA), and currently with
Watershed Sciences, Inc., Portland, Oregon, USA) for his
development of river-temperature modeling techniques
that utilised airborne TIR images for calibration and
Acknowledgements
Although the research described in the article has been
funded in part by the United States Environmental Pro-
tection Agency's STAR program through grant R827675-
01-0, it has not been subjected to EPA review, and does
not necessarily reflect the views of the Agency, and no
official endorsement should be inferred. Emissivity data
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