“…However, in situ measurement is expensive and time consuming to deploy over large water bodies. Thermal infrared water leaving radiance acquired from remote sensing sensors has been successfully employed to retrieve WST (Alcântara et al, 2010;Handcock et al, 2006;Hedger et al, 2007;Politi, Cutler, & Rowan, 2012;Takeshige et al, 2013;Tan & Cherkauer, 2013), however, in coastal systems the large pixel sizes of most sensors with appropriate temporal resolution is too large to effectively study near-shore spatial and temporal patterns. In recent years, there have been several applications of Landsat-class data to coastal WST, which significantly reduces the impact of shoreline contamination on the analysis of WST (Fisher & Mustard, 2004;Hook et al, 2004;Lamaro, Mariñelarena, Torrusio, & Sala, 2013;Sobrino, Jimenez-Munoz, & Paolini, 2004;Wloczyk, Richter, Borg, & Neubert, 2006).…”