i.emissivity.1grass - Man Page

Computes emissivity from NDVI, generic method for sparse land.

Keywords

imagery, emissivity, land flux, energy balance

Synopsis

i.emissivity
i.emissivity --help
i.emissivity input=name output=name  [--overwrite]  [--help]  [--verbose]  [--quiet]  [--ui]

Flags

--overwrite

Allow output files to overwrite existing files

--help

Print usage summary

--verbose

Verbose module output

--quiet

Quiet module output

--ui

Force launching GUI dialog

Parameters

input=name [required]

Name of the NDVI map [-]

output=name [required]

Name of the output emissivity layer

Description

i.emissivity calculates the emissivity in the longwave radiation spectrum, according to the semi-empirical equation related to NDVI by Caselles et al. (1997), valid in the NDVI range of 0.16 to 0.74 (Bastiaanssen, 1995).

Caselles et al. (1997) give reference (in Table 3 and Figure 2) to both the NDVI range used (0.15 - 0.71) and the corresponding emissivity range used (0.97 - 0.99).

The emissivity is the efficiency of longwave energy returning to the atmosphere from the skin surface. The skin surface receives heat from the thermal infrared radiation of the Sun, through atmospheric interaction. A part is returned to the atmosphere fastly, and another part is kept in the surface skin to be returned later. In more scientific terms, the grey body radiation is equal to the black body radiation times the emissivity.

References

See Also

i.eb.netrad

Author

Yann Chemin, GRASS Development Team

Source Code

Available at: i.emissivity source code (history)

Accessed: Tuesday Mar 19 11:02:28 2024

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