Thermal Images of Kyushu Island in the Nighttime Observation by LANDSAT
Among the LANDSAT series first launched by USA in 1972,
the last one, Landsat-5 launched in 1984, is continuing observation
with the period of 16 days for a specific path with the width 185 km
in daytime.
Kyushu is subjected to observation at about 10:10 with
the descending path No.112 covering the main part except for
western part.
The nighttime observation at about 21:30 is done after 5 days
with the ascending path No.211.
Here we show thermal infrared images mainly in the form of
pseudo color representation.
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Originally at Faculty of Engineering, Kagoshima Univ.
The U.S.A. Government retains ownership of the source data of LANDSAT.
NASDA offered source data of LANDSAT.
Authors and the reference:
N.Iino,*1, K.Kinoshita,*2 J.Kohno,*3 T.Yano,*1, Properties of Thermal Images of
Kyushu observed in Nighttime TM Data,3rd Kyushu Branch Meeting of Rem. Sens. Soc. Japan,
1996, p.5(in Japanese).
*1 Faculty of Engineering, Kagoshima Univ., Kagoshima 890, Japan.
*2 Faculty of Education, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima 890, Japan.
*3 Kagoshima Environmental Research and Service
