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However, current thermal satellite platforms do not display the fine spatial resolution required for identifying crop water status patterns at the field scale. The thermal sharpening (TsHARP) utility provides a technique for downscaling coarse thermal images to match the finer resolution of images acquired in the visible and near infrared bandwidths. This sharpening method is based on the inverse linear relationship between vegetation fraction calculated from the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) and land surface temperature (LST). The current study used the TsHARP method to sharpen low-resolution thermal data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer MODIS (1 km) to the finer resolution of Sentinel-2 (10 m) and Vegetation and Environment New micro-Spacecraft (VEN\u00b5S) (5 m) visible-near infrared images. The sharpening methodology was evaluated at scene and field scales in southern Georgia and northern Mississippi, USA. A comparison of sharpened temperature was made with reference temperatures from Landsat-8 Operational Land Imager (OLI) in four different spatial resolutions (30, 60, 120, and 240 m) for method validation. Coarse resolution comparison on the dates in which imagery from both sensors were acquired on the same day resulted in average observed mean absolute error (MAE) of 1.63 \u00b0C, and R2 variation from 0.34 to 0.74. Temperature errors at the field scale ranged from 0.25 to 3.11 \u00b0C using both Sentinel-2 and VEN\u00b5S. Sharpened maps at 120 and 60 m resolution showed the highest consistency for all fields and dates. Maps sharpened using VEN\u00b5S images showed comparable or higher accuracy than maps sharpened using Sentinel-2. The superior performance coupled with the better revisit time indicates that the VEN\u00b5S platform has high potential for frequent in-season crop monitoring. Further research with ground data collection is needed to explore field use limitations of this methodology, but these results give useful insights of potential benefits of implementing the TsHARP technique as a tool for crop stress monitoring.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs13061155","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,3,18]],"date-time":"2021-03-18T22:19:36Z","timestamp":1616105976000},"page":"1155","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["Field Scale Assessment of the TsHARP Technique for Thermal Sharpening of MODIS Satellite Images Using VEN\u00b5S and Sentinel-2-Derived NDVI"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"given":"Lorena N.","family":"Lacerda","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, University of Georgia, Tifton, GA 31793, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5095-4353","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yafit","family":"Cohen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Agricultural Research Organization (ARO), Volcani Center, Rishon Leziyyon 7505101, Israel"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"John","family":"Snider","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, University of Georgia, Tifton, GA 31793, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Hanna","family":"Huryna","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"The Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boqer Campus, Midreshet, Ben-Gurion 84990, Israel"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Vasileios","family":"Liakos","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Agronomy and Agrotechnology, University of Thessaly, 41500 Larissa, Greece"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"George","family":"Vellidis","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, University of Georgia, Tifton, GA 31793, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,3,18]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"128","DOI":"10.4236\/ars.2014.33011","article-title":"Applications of Thermal Imaging in Agriculture\u2014A review","volume":"3","author":"Ishimwe","year":"2014","journal-title":"Adv. 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