Spatial-scale error correction methods for regional fluxes retrieval using MODIS data[J]. Journal of Remote Sensing, 2012,16(2):207-231. DOI: 10.11834/jrs.20120064.
Large numbers of important researches have been done to estimate regional surface heat fluxes using remote sensing data over the past few decades. Due to the spatial heterogeneity of the land surface on a regional scale
many problems still need to be explored. Clearly
for landscapes with significant variability in vegetation cover
type
architecture
and moisture
due to the large contrasts in surface temperature
vegetation cover
surface roughness length and zero plane displacement height
the application of a land surface model to a mixed pixel causes significant errors. In this paper
we discussed the method of combining the land cover information and remotely sensed vegetation index provided by Landsat data and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data to correct spatial-scale errors. It makes full use of the advantages of the temporal resolutions of MODIS data and spatial resolutions of Landsat data to construct a regional evapotranspiration model
which meets the requirements of spatial heterogeneity scale and makes the higher frequency of large area flux monitoring more operational.