The objectives of the Special Interest Group Thermal Remote Sensing (SIG-TRS) are:
Bringing together European thermal remote
sensing scientists from different disciplines
- Encouraging international exchange of knowledge and data common to all thermal research groups independent of application
- Increasing awareness of the thermal remote
sensing domain
- Joining forces in the TRS domain, in order to
position TRS higher on the agenda for new sensor development in Europe
We intend to achieve these objectives by organizing:
- Workshops in the framework of EARSeL Symposia
- Topical sessions attached to other EARSeL and/or non-EARSeL events
- Informal demonstrations or training courses
Chairs
The SIG-TRS is chaired jointly by
- Dr. Claudia Kuenzer of the German Remote Sensing Data Center, DFD, of the German Aerospace Center, DLR, and
- Dr. Chris Hecker, of the International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, ITC.
Target Groups
We envisage that this special interest group will cater for researchers using various approaches in the thermal remote sensing domain, including:
- Thermal anomaly detection
- Emissivity analyses and mapping
- Apparent thermal inertia approaches
- Subpixel thermal mapping
- Multi-band analyses
- Multi-diurnal analyses
- Time series exploitation and change detection
- Thermal fluxes
- Thermal field spectrometry
- Thermal laboratory spectrometry
... applied to the field such as:
- Land surface temperature retrieval
- Evaporation studies
- Climatology
- Hydrology
- Analyses of thermal heat island and heat sink
patterns in urban areas
- Retrieval of soil moisture
- Rock and soil type discrimination
- Silicate mineral mapping for mineral exploration
- Volcano observation
- Geothermal analyses
- Coal and peat fires
- Forest fires
- Burned area detection
- Observation of industrial areas
- Pipeline monitoring and security applications
- Heat pollution in rivers and lakes
- Fluvial- and lake habitat analyses
