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influence glaciers and ice sheets and how rising atmospheric greenhouse
gases influence land surface temperature (Przyborski, 2018).
The processes of water balance and the surface energy through global
scales is one of the most significant parameters in measuring LST (Kustas and
Anderson, 2009; Karnieli et al., 2010). LST knowledge delivers information on
the spatial variations on the equilibrium surface temporal state and
fundamental importance in many applications (Kerr et al., 2000). Therefore,
there were different area that regularly used of LST including, urban climate,
hydrological cycle, vegetation monitoring, evapotranspiration and
environmental studies, climate change and others (Hansen et al., 2010).
Additionally, it has been accepted as one of the high-priority parameters for
the International Geosphere and Biosphere Program (IGBP) (Townshend et al.,
1994).
Land surface characteristics have a strong heterogeneity such as in
vegetation, land cover, land use soil and topography (Liu et al., 2006; Neteler,
2010). In term of land cover change and land use growth was large-scaled in
transformation that leads to substantial losses in plant diversity, animal,
ecosystem functions and changed in microclimatic condition (Dislich et al.,
2016). Moreover, LST might change the pattern from natural disaster in such
cases of landslide, forest fire and rainfall. Tan (2007) illustrated that the growth
of agricultural land raises and the development cycle of vegetation influence
the ground temperature which shows rice paddies absorb heat from their
adjacent areas and affects in the cooling. In addition, according to Prata et al.
(1995) LST dramatically change on an adequate distribution and temporal
evolution in time and space. Hence, the measurements requires temporal and
spatial sampling with detailed. Given the complication of surface temperature
over terrestrial, land measurements only cannot basically gives values over
wide coverage areas. Recently, the improvement of satellite data from remote
sensing, offer the probability for measuring LST over the world with a sufficient
and high temporal resolution.
In this study, we used data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging
Spectroradiometer (MODIS). Terra and Aqua satellite system are installed on
MODIS sensors. Both satellite system records day-time and night-time for a
given location within 24 hours period. The study includes only day-time data
from 2000-2018. The study area focus in Taiwan which lies in northern tropic
of cancer and circles on earth at which the sun can be directly overhead.
Furthermore, in every summer in June, the sun directs over the tropic of cancer.
The effect of the sun while directing over the tropic of cancer is called
"shadowless" which takes place at noon in the tropic of cancer. The heat in
summer effect on worker health in Taiwan (Ro-Ting and Chang-Chuan, 2009).
Furthermore, the northern part of Taiwan has a lot of industries, such as the
petrochemical industry. On the other hand, the southern region is where the

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