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In this context, this study was conducted to demonstrate whether a small and portable ground-based thermal infrared spectroradiometer can be used to estimate the horizontal air temperature distribution in built spaces. For this estimation, we first calculated a forward model using radiative transfer simulations, and the air temperature distribution was inversely estimated from the observed radiance using the model. To regularize the estimated air temperature, we used the maximum a posteriori method, which uses prior information. To verify this estimation method, we conducted measurement experiments in two types of built spaces that had different air temperature distributions within spaces that were approximately 20 m long. Moreover, we conducted a parametric case study on the prior information. As a result, we were able to estimate the air temperature distribution with an average root mean square error (RMSE) of 1.3 \u00b0C for all cases when the average RMSE of the prior information for all cases was 2.1 \u00b0C. 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