Medium-scale surface temperature mission: MUST

Philippe Duthil; Alain Vidal; Dominique Dubet

doi:10.1117/12.298179

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30 December 1997 Medium-scale surface temperature mission: MUST

Philippe Duthil, Alain Vidal, Dominique Dubet

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Proceedings Volume 3222, Earth Surface Remote Sensing; (1997) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.298179
Event: Aerospace Remote Sensing '97, 1997, London, United Kingdom

Abstract

The medium scale surface temperature (MUST) mission, studied in the frame of a European Commission (DG XII) contract, is a large swath (1200 Km), medium resolution (250 m) thermal infra-red imager mission devoted to retrieve the land surface temperature in order to serve various applications. These applications are firstly those concerned with the soil and vegetation water status (agriculture, irrigation and water resources management) as evapotranspiration and soil moisture can be inferred from surface temperature through relevant models. The other applications are either directly using the surface temperature (some frosts conditions assessment) or the air temperature that is itself derived from surface temperature extrapolation (urban heat island, some air frosts conditions). The project basically aimed to demonstrate the relevance and efficiency of the MUST mission products in the relevant application fields and to assess the economical benefits of the mission. Also in the course of the study the design of a medium resolution, large swath thermal imager, providing the appropriate performance required by the users while compact and affordable, was produced. Finally the operational implementation of the system and especially the ground segment was considered.

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Philippe Duthil, Alain Vidal, and Dominique Dubet "Medium-scale surface temperature mission: MUST", Proc. SPIE 3222, Earth Surface Remote Sensing, (30 December 1997); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.298179

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