Bayesian Latent Variable Co-kriging Model in Remote Sensing for Quality Flagged Observations

Bledar A. Konomi (), Emily L. Kang, Ayat Almomani and Jonathan Hobbs
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Bledar A. Konomi: University of Cincinnati
Emily L. Kang: University of Cincinnati
Ayat Almomani: Yarmouk University
Jonathan Hobbs: California Institute of Technology

Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics, 2023, vol. 28, issue 3, No 3, 423-441

Abstract: Abstract Remote sensing data products often include quality flags that inform users whether the associated observations are of good, acceptable or unreliable qualities. However, such information on data fidelity is not consistently considered in remote sensing data analyses. Motivated by observations from the atmospheric infrared sounder (AIRS) instrument on board NASA’s Aqua satellite, we propose a latent variable co-kriging model with separable Gaussian processes to analyze large quality-flagged remote sensing data sets together with their associated quality information. We augment the posterior distribution by an imputation mechanism to decompose large covariance matrices into separate computationally efficient components taking advantage of their input structure. Within the augmented posterior, we develop a Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) procedure that mostly consists of direct simulations from conditional distributions. In addition, we propose a computationally efficient recursive prediction procedure. We apply the proposed method to air temperature data from the AIRS instrument. We show that incorporating quality flag information in our proposed model substantially improves the prediction performance compared to models that do not account for quality flags. Supplementary materials accompanying this paper appear online.

Keywords: Co-kriging; Gaussian process; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Remote sensing; Separable covariance function (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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