Table 7.
Temporal statistics of MODIS & AATSR brightness temperatures (TB).
| Date of image acquisition [Julian day] | MODIS | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 131104 [318] | 021204 [337] | 250105 [25] | ||||||||
| 11μm | 12μm | 11μm | 12μm | 11μm | 12μm | |||||
| Maximum | 301.8 | 299.3 | 303.2 | 301.6 | 309.1 | 306.3 | ||||
| Minimum | 281.4 | 289.8 | 291.6 | 294.3 | 298.0 | 299.9 | ||||
| Mean | 296.0 | 292.0 | 299.3 | 292.7 | 302.2 | 300.8 | ||||
| Std. Deviation | 1.231 | 1.032 | 0.853 | 1.110 | 1.543 | 1.276 | ||||
| AATSR | ||||||||||
| 131104 [318] | 021204 [337] | 250105 [25] | ||||||||
| 11μm | 12μm | 11μm | 12μm | 11μm | 12μm | |||||
| Maximum | 303.2 | 297.6 | 314.8 | 312.2 | 317.7 | 313.3 | ||||
| Minimum | 292.6 | 289.2 | 299.6 | 298.4 | 307.7 | 302.8 | ||||
| Mean | 298.9 | 294.8 | 305.0 | 303.3 | 309.1 | 304.7 | ||||
| Std. Deviation | 1.055 | 0.807 | 2.276 | 2.078 | 1.441 | 1.511 | ||||
| Landsat ETM+(10.4-12.5 μm) | ||||||||||
| 050104 [05] | ||||||||||
| Maximum | 309.990 | |||||||||
| Minimum | 283.720 | |||||||||
| Mean | 293.719 | |||||||||
| Std. Deviation | 7.691 | |||||||||