Product Tutorial on Land Surface Temperature (LST)

• Chapter VIII: Online Available LST Databases


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• Land Surface Temperature from MODIS-Aqua & MODIS-Terra
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• Global maps of averages of Land Surface Temperature from MODIS
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• LST from the EUMETSAT Satellite Applications Facility on Land Surface Analysis
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• Copernicus global maps of Land Surface Temperature from a constellation of geostationary satellites
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• LST from GEO and LEO instruments - ESA's GlobTemperature

Online Available LST Databases

Some operational LST products are freely available online. In most cases only an online registration form needs to be filled to have access to the products.

Some of the most well-known LST products available online are listed below.

 

Land Surface Temperature from MODIS-Aqua & MODIS-Terra

LST products from MODIS satellites are available from 2002 onwards at several spatial and temporal resolutions (table II) from the Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC) managed by the NASA Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS) project. Fig. 30 presents an example of LST from MODIS on 21 June 2003.

Fig. 30: MOD11A1. Acquired 21 June 2003. Tile H17V05. Strait of Gibraltar.

File format is HDF.

Products available: HERE

Information and images were obtained from https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/ maintained by the NASA EOSDIS Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC), USGS/Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center, Sioux Falls, South Dakota.