Research on joint inversion of volcanic shortwave infrared emissivity and temperature based on day and night images

ABSTRACT

In order to solve the problem of inaccurate emissivity obtained by empirical or experimental measurements in traditional volcanic inversion methods, which leads to the discrepancy between the temperature inversion results and the actual temperature, this paper constructs a joint inversion model of volcanic temperature and emissivity, and solves the volcanic temperature and emissivity simultaneously from the image element scale.In order to obtain the two unknown parameters of volcanic temperature and emissivity simultaneously, the study image element is assumed to be a pure image element and Lambertian body, and based on the blackbody radiation law and energy conservation law, the volcanic radiation energy transfer equation under different irradiance conditions is established and solved jointly. In this paper, the study area is Halemaʻumaʻu crater in Hawaii, and the short-wave infrared band of Landsat 8 satellite day and night remote sensing images with an imaging interval of 36 hours are used as the study data, and the temperature and emissivity are calculated using the golden mean and parabolic interpolation method with the same emissivity of the same image element in both scenes and the temperature approximation as the constraints. The results are as follows: the temperature inversion of the study area has a banding phenomenon, the temperature of the lava lake is 800–1050 K and the emissivity is 0.5–0.7; the temperature of the crater surface outside the lava lake is 500–800 K and the emissivity is 0.7–1.0. The inversion results are consistent with the actual situation. The results show that the method can realize the simultaneous inversion of volcanic temperature and emissivity parameters on the image element scale, which provides a new method for the inversion of volcanic temperature and emissivity.

KEYWORDS:

• Shortwave infrared
• volcano
• emissivity
• temperature retrieval

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