Evaluation of Sea Surface Temperature Derived from Landsat TIRS Imagery - A case Study in the Syrian Coastal Waters of Baniyas City
Abstract
This research aims to evaluate the accuracy of SST derived from thermal Landsat TIRS imagery by conducting field measurements and comparing them with images of SST. In this work, we carried out a sea voyage to measure SST at 22 in the Syrian coastal waters of Baniyas city. After that, we compared measurements with SST values extracted from thermal images using three techniques in geographic information systems. The research results show a strong correlation between the sea surface temperature values measured in the field and those derived from thermal images, as the correlation coefficient values ranged between (0.87-0.89). Our results indicate that SST measurements derived from Landsat TIRS imagery can be used directly in marine and environmental applications that require measurements with a permissible RMS error of 0.9°C.
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