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This paper presents an unmanned airship low-altitude thermal infrared remote sensing system (UALTIRSS), which is composed of an unmanned airship, an onboard control and navigation subsystem, a task subsystem, a communication subsystem, and a ground-base station. Furthermore, an experimental method and an airborne-field experiment for collecting land surface temperature (LST) were designed and conducted. The LST pattern within 0.8-m spatial resolution and with root mean square error (RMSE) value of 2.63 \u00b0C was achieved and analyzed in the study region. Finally, the effects of surface types on the surrounding thermal environment were analyzed by LST profiles. Results show that the high thermal resolution imagery obtained from UALTIRSS can provide more detailed thermal information, which are conducive to classify fine urban material and assess surface urban heat island (SUHI). There is a significant positive correlation between the average LST of profiles and the percent impervious surface area (ISA%) with R2 around 0.917. Overall, UALTIRSS and the retrieval method were proved to be low-cost and feasible for studying micro urban thermal environments.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs71014259","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,10,27]],"date-time":"2015-10-27T17:23:21Z","timestamp":1445966601000},"page":"14259-14275","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":28,"title":["An Unmanned Airship Thermal Infrared Remote Sensing System for Low-Altitude and High Spatial Resolution Monitoring of Urban Thermal Environments: Integration and an Experiment"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"7","author":[{"given":"Peng","family":"Ren","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Subtropical Building Science, Department of Architecture, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China"}]},{"given":"Qinglin","family":"Meng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Subtropical Building Science, Department of Architecture, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China"}]},{"given":"Yufeng","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Subtropical Building Science, Department of Architecture, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China"}]},{"given":"Lihua","family":"Zhao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Subtropical Building Science, Department of Architecture, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China"}]},{"given":"Xu","family":"Yuan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Subtropical Building Science, Department of Architecture, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China"}]},{"given":"Xiaoheng","family":"Feng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Subtropical Building Science, Department of Architecture, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China"},{"name":"Guangzhou Design Institute, Guangzhou 510620, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2015,10,27]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"1999","article-title":"A remote sensing-GIS evaluation of urban expansion and its impact on surface temperature in the Zhujiang Delta, China","volume":"22","author":"Weng","year":"2001","journal-title":"Int. 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