Simulation of HyspIRI products of surface energy flux maps

Frequent and high resolution remote sensing temperature data are needed for global scale, operational estimation of the surface energy balance. Its 8 thermal bands, 60-m pixel size and 5-day revisit time make the HyspIRI mission the future of the multispectral thermal remote sensing. In this work HyspIRI products of surface energy fluxes were simulated from very high spatial resolution MASTER flights, over the Jornada and Sevilleta experimental ranges, southwest USA. A two-source energy balance model, together with meteorological data, were used in this work. Results show the stability of the model when applied to simulated HyspIRI images, and allow performing an analysis of the effect of the spatial resolution degradation on the surface variability in arid areas in terms of energy fluxes.