Fusion of FY-4B Land Surface Temperature Based on XGBoost AlgorithmA Case Study of Shaanxi Province #br#

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  • 1. Shaanxi Meteorological Service Center of Agricultural Remote Sensing and Economic CropsXian 710016ShaanxiChina
    2. China Meteorological Administration Eco⁃Environment and Meteorology for the Qinling Mountains and Loess Plateau Key LaboratoryXian 710016ShaanxiChina

Online published: 2026-04-13

Abstract

Thermal infrared remote sensing technology enables the rapid acquisition of land surface temperature LSTdata at both regional and global scales. Howeverits effectiveness is substantially diminished under cloudy conditionswhere it fails to reliably characterize the underlying surface thermal environment. To address‐ ing the issue of data gaps in the Fengyun-4BFY-4Bsatellite LST remote sensing products in cloud-covered ar‐ easwe proposed a multi-source data fusion method based on the eXtreme Gradient BoostingXGBoostma‐ chine learning algorithm. The method integrated FY-4B LST products with auxiliary datasetsincluding the CMA Land Data Assimilation SystemCLDASLST productsmeteorological station observationsas well as topographic data and vegetation indexto reconstruct and fuse cloud-covered LST in Shaanxi Province on differ‐ ent typical dates. The results showed that,(1for selected typical datesthe correlation coefficients between the fused cloud-coverd LST and CLDAS LST exceeded 0. 91with both mean absolute errorsMAEand root mean square errorsRMSEstable between 2 ℃ and 4 ℃or reduced by more than 0. 5 ℃ compared to clearsky areas.2The fusion method effectively addressed data gaps in cloud-covered areaswhile preserving the spatial characteristics of the original FY-4B clear-sky LST. Moreoverthe fused results exhibited high spatial con‐ sistency with the CLDAS LST across diverse terrainsincluding the Loess Plateau in Northern Shaanxithe Guanzhong Plainand regions characterized by complex topography. 3Shapley Additive exPlanations SHAPanalysis revealed that CLDAS LSTlatitude and the normalized difference vegetation index emerged as the key feature variables influencing the fusion outcomeswith higher latitudes and areas with sparse vegetation exhibiting pronounced positive contributions to the simulated LST values. For areas situated north of 35° N - 36°Nincreased latitude correlated with higher simulated LST values. Converselylower normalized difference vegetation indexNDVIvalues facilitated higher LST outputswhile NDVI values exceeding 0. 2 reverse this contribution direction.4Comparative validation across different regions under both cloud-covered and allweather conditions indicated that the fused LST results were closely aligned with CLDAS LSTwith perfor‐ mance in Northern Shaanxi slightly inferior to that in the Guanzhong and Southern Shaanxi regionsthe latter two exhibiting comparable and relatively superior accuracy. These regional discrepancies may arise from the com‐ bined effects of cloud distribution patternstopographic complexityand the model’s sensitivity to local feature variables. The method proposed in this study can provide technical support for operational all-weather land sur‐ face temperature monitoring using satellite remote sensingthereby enhancing the reliability and applicability of satellite-based thermal observations.

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ZHANG Xuting1, 2, QUAN Wenting1, 2, ZHOU Hui1, 2, PAN Yuying1, 2, WANG Weidong1, 2, LI Meirong1, 2, WANG Zhao1, 2 . Fusion of FY-4B Land Surface Temperature Based on XGBoost AlgorithmA Case Study of Shaanxi Province #br#[J]. Plateau Meteorology, 0 : 1 . DOI: 10.7522/j.issn.1000-0534.2025

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