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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">ISPRS-Archives</journal-id>
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<journal-title>The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">ISPRS-Archives</abbrev-journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="nlm-ta">Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.</abbrev-journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="epub">2194-9034</issn>
<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/isprs-archives-XLIX-B3-2026-1051-2026</article-id>
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<article-title>Spatiotemporal Modelling of Ground-Level Air Temperature in an agricultural context:
Rigorous Evaluation of LST Modis and Landsat-8 Imagery Data</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Rocca</surname>
<given-names>Marica Teresa</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3031-5874</ext-link>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Bergamaschi</surname>
<given-names>Andrea</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0009-0008-7000-4708</ext-link>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Baldin</surname>
<given-names>Christian Massimiliano</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8513-3472</ext-link>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Dell'Acqua</surname>
<given-names>Fabio</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0044-2998</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Casella</surname>
<given-names>Vittorio Marco</given-names>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>Dept. of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy</addr-line>
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<label>2</label>
<addr-line>Dept. of Industrial and Information Engineering, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>30</day>
<month>07</month>
<year>2026</year>
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<volume>XLIX-B3-2026</volume>
<fpage>1051</fpage>
<lpage>1057</lpage>
<permissions>
<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2026 Marica Teresa Rocca et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
<license license-type="open-access">
<license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this licence, visit <ext-link ext-link-type="uri"  xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</ext-link></license-p>
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<p>Ground-level air temperature (T&lt;sub&gt;air&lt;/sub&gt;) is an essential variable for climate monitoring, agricultural management, and hazard prevention. Conventional ground-based measurements often fail to capture the fine-scale spatial variability, especially in regions with complex terrain. Land Surface Temperature (LST) remote sensing offers a complementary solution, providing spatially continuous and temporally frequent observations. This study evaluates the potential of MODIS and Landsat-8 LST products to estimate T&lt;sub&gt;air&lt;/sub&gt; in a heterogeneous agricultural landscape. We developed spatiotemporal regression models linking satellite-derived LST to ground observations from meteorological stations over the five years 2018&amp;ndash;2022. MODIS data provided high temporal coverage through 8- day composites, while Landsat-8 offered higher spatial resolution LST via the Statistical Mono-Window algorithm. The models were validated using Leave-One-Out Cross-Validation, achieving high predictive accuracy for MODIS-based T&lt;sub&gt;air&lt;/sub&gt; estimation (R&amp;sup2; = 0.981, RMSE = 1.1 &amp;deg;C), whereas Landsat-8 captured finer spatial variability (R&amp;sup2; = 0.859, RMSE = 3.4 &amp;deg;C). Our results demonstrate that integrating multi-resolution LST products enables accurate, dense mapping of T&lt;sub&gt;air&lt;/sub&gt;, supporting operational forecasting for precision agriculture. The study also discusses limitations related to land-cover heterogeneity, temporal representativeness, and potential extensions using spatial correlation methods or radar-derived crop-structure information.</p>
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