“…Thus, BME has the potential to merge spatiotemporally incomplete and noisy remote sensing products to produce spatiotemporally complete, accurate, and coherent remote sensing product. BME was originally developed by Christakos [2000] and has been successfully applied in various fields for mapping and spatial estimation, such as soil property mapping [Modis et al, 2013;Orton and Lark, 2007], ambient particle matter concentration estimation Pang et al, 2010;Reyes and Serre, 2014;Yu et al, 2009], infectious disease analysis [Christakos et al, 2007;Yu et al, 2010], environmental risk assessment [Akita et al, 2007;Messier et al, 2012;Savelieva et al, 2005], water consumption mapping [Lee and Wentz, 2008], and precipitation estimating [Bayat et al, 2013]. BME was first introduced into the thermal infrared and passive microwave sea surface temperature (SST) products fusion in 2013 [Li et al, 2013].…”