KANG Yue,
WEN Jun,
ZHANG Tang-Tang et al
.2014.Assessment of the land surface wetness by using satellite remote sensing data over the Loess Plateau.Chinese Journal Of Geophysics,57(8): 2473-2483,doi: 10.6038/cjg20140809
卫星遥感数据评估黄土高原陆面干湿程度研究
康悦, 文军, 张堂堂, 田辉, 陈昊
中国科学院寒区旱区环境与工程研究所, 中国科学院陆面过程与气候变化重点实验室, 兰州 730000
Assessment of the land surface wetness by using satellite remote sensing data over the Loess Plateau
KANG Yue, WEN Jun, ZHANG Tang-Tang, TIAN Hui, CHEN Hao
Key Laboratory of Land Surface Process and Climate Change in Cold and Arid Regions, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China
Abstract:Due to its advantages in estimating regional and temporal land surface variables, satellite remote sensing has great potential in detecting and monitoring land surface wetness. In this paper, the preliminary characteristics of LST-NDVI space were analyzed by using land surface temperature (LST) and normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) obtained from the Earth Observation System/MODerate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (EOS/MODIS). The results indicated that when the study area was large enough, and the time series length of the datasets was long enough, the distribution of the points in the LST-NDVI space is not triangular or trapezoid shapes. Based on this fact, a method for estimating the values of the dry edge and wet edge was proposed, the values of dry edge and wet edge were the sets of maximum and minimum at the given NDVI internals, the NDVI and LST values on the dry edge and wet edge were not linear relationship. A land surface Temperature -Vegetation drought Difference Index (TVDI) was constructed based on the LST-NDVI space characteristics, its potential on land surface wetness assessment over the Loess Plateau was explored. The results showed that there was a relationship between the land surface wetness denoted by TVDI anomaly and meteorological drought cased by precipitation anomaly, both of them matched well at the spatial and temporal patterns. There was a good relationship between TVDI and 5.0 cm depth soil moisture over the Loess Plateau mesa, the correlation coefficient was above 0.67, it passed the test of significance at the significance level of 1 percent. Therefore, it could be concluded that TVDI is able to be used in assessing land surface wetness.
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