Multiscale thermal-infrared measurements of the Mauna Loa caldera, Hawaii

Lee K. Balick; Alan R. Gillespie; Elsa Abbott; Donald Sabol; Anne B. Kahle; Christoph C. Borel; Malcolm M. Pendergast

doi:10.1117/12.437033

20 August 2001 Multiscale thermal-infrared measurements of the Mauna Loa caldera, Hawaii

Lee K. Balick, Alan R. Gillespie, Elsa Abbott, Donald Sabol, Anne B. Kahle, Christoph C. Borel, Malcolm M. Pendergast

Proceedings Volume 4381, Algorithms for Multispectral, Hyperspectral, and Ultraspectral Imagery VII; (2001) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.437033
Event: Aerospace/Defense Sensing, Simulation, and Controls, 2001, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

Until recently, most thermal infrared measurements of natural scenes have been made at disparate scales, typically 10^-3-10^-2 (spectra) and 10²-10³m (satellite images), with occasional airborne images (10¹m) filling the gap. Temperature and emissivity fields are spatially heterogeneous over a similar range of scales, depending on scene composition. A common problem for the land surface, therefore, has been relating field spectral and temperature measurements to satellite data, yet in many cases this is necessary if satellite data are to be interpreted to yield meaningful information about the land surface. Recently, three new satellites with thermal imaging capability at the 10¹-10²m scale have been launched: MTI, TERRA, and Landsat 7. MTI acquires multispectral images in the mid-infrared (3-5micrometers ) and longwave infrared (8-10micrometers ) with 20m resolution. ASTER and MODIS aboard TERRA acquire multispectral longwave images at 90m and 500-1000m, respectively, and MODIS also acquires multispectral mid-infrared images. Landsat 7 acquires broadband longwave images at 60m. As part of an experiment to validate the temperature and thermal emissivity values calculated from MTI and ASTER images, we have targeted the summit region of Mauna Loa for field characterization and near-simultaneous satellite imaging, both on daytime and nighttime overpasses, and compare the results to previously acquired 1-^-1m airborne images, ground-level multispectral FLIR images, and the field spectra. Mauna Loa was chosen in large part because the 4x6km summit caldera, flooded with fresh basalt in 1984, appears to be spectrally homogeneous at scales with 10^-1 and 10²m, facilitating the comparison of sensed temperature. The validation results suggest that, with careful atmospheric compensation, it is possible to match ground measurements with measurements from space, and to use the Mauna Loa validation site for cross-comparison of thermal infrared sensors and temperature/emissivity extraction algorithms.

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Lee K. Balick, Alan R. Gillespie, Elsa Abbott, Donald Sabol, Anne B. Kahle, Christoph C. Borel, and Malcolm M. Pendergast "Multiscale thermal-infrared measurements of the Mauna Loa caldera, Hawaii", Proc. SPIE 4381, Algorithms for Multispectral, Hyperspectral, and Ultraspectral Imagery VII, (20 August 2001); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.437033

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