SMEX02 Landsat 5 and 7 Thematic Mapper Land Surface Brightness Temperatures

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Entry ID

NSIDC-0241

Summary

This data set consists of land surface brightness temperatures (TBs) derived from Landsat 5 Thematic Mapper (TM) and Landsat 7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper+ (ETM+) thermal bands. The Landsat data coincided with the SMEX02 campaign and were acquired once per day on 23 June, 1 July, 8 July, 16 July, and 17 July 2002 over the Walnut Creek watershed, Iowa, USA. The data collectively cover 41.69° N to 42.73° N and 93.16° W to 93.84° N. Landsat 7 ETM+ data have 60 m spatial resolution. Landsat 5 TM data have 30 m spatial resolution. The investigators used the MODTRAN 4.1 radiative transfer model to correct the original Level-1G radiances for atmospheric effects; then they converted radiances to TBs. Data are unsigned integer, band-interleaved-by-line (BIL), binary values, scaled by 100. Data are available via FTP.

These data were collected as part of a validation study for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer - Earth Observing System (AMSR-E). AMSR-E is a mission instrument launched aboard NASA's Aqua Satellite on 04 May 2002. AMSR-E validation studies linked to SMEX are designed to evaluate the accuracy of AMSR-E soil moisture data. Specific validation objectives include assessing and refining soil moisture algorithm performance; verifying soil moisture estimation accuracy; investigating the effects of vegetation, surface temperature, topography, and soil texture on soil moisture accuracy; and determining the regions that are useful for AMSR-E soil moisture measurements.

Geographic Coverage

 

Spatial Coordinates:
N: 42.7°     S: 41.7°     E: -93.2°     W: -93.8°    

Data Set Citation

Dataset Creator: T. Jackson, F. Li, W. Kustas
Dataset Title: SMEX02 Landsat 5 and 7 Thematic Mapper Land Surface Brightness Temperatures
Dataset Release Date: 2005-08-31
Dataset Release Place: Boulder, CO
Dataset Publisher: National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)
Online Resource: http://nsidc.org/data/nsidc-0241.html

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 2002-06-23
Stop Date: 2002-07-17

Data Resolution

Latitude Resolution: 30 m, 60 m
Longitude Resolution: 30 m, 60 m

Location Keywords

  • Continent North America United States Of America Iowa

Science Keywords

  • Spectral/Engineering Infrared Wavelengths Brightness Temperature

Ancillary Keywords

  • Brightness Temperature
  • DAAC
  • EOSDIS
  • Landsat-5
  • Landsat-7
  • NASA
  • NSIDC DAAC
  • Satellite
  • SMEX

ISO Topic Category (View Definitions)

  • Climatology/Meteorology/Atmosphere

Platform

  • LANDSAT
  • LANDSAT-5
  • LANDSAT-7

Instrument

  • ETM+ Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus
  • TM Thematic Mapper

Project

  • SMEX02 Soil Moisture Experiments in 2002

Data Set Progress

COMPLETE

Data Center

National Snow and Ice Data Center
Data Center URL: http://nsidc.org
Data Set ID: NSIDC-0241

Data Center Personnel

Name: NSIDC User Services
Phone: +1 (303) 492-6199
Fax: +1 (303) 492-2468
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
Contact Address:
National Snow and Ice Data Center
CIRES, 449 UCB
University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA

NSIDC Distributed Active Archive Center
Data Center URL: http://nsidc.org/daac/index.html
Data Set ID: NSIDC-0241

Data Center Personnel

Name: NSIDC DAAC User Services
Phone: +1 (303) 492-6199
Fax: +1 (303) 492-2468
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
Contact Address:
National Snow and Ice Data Center
CIRES, 449 UCB
University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA

Distribution

Distribution Media: FTP
Distribution Size: 37 MB
Distribution Format: Flat binary (unsigned integer, band-interleaved-by-line, PC byte order)

Personnel

Thomas Jackson
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Phone: 301-504-8511
Fax: 301-504-8931
Email: tjackson@hydrolab.arsusda.gov
Contact Address:
USDA ARS Hydrology Lab
104 Bldg. 007
BARC-West
City: Beltsville
Province or State: MD
Postal Code: 20705
Country: USA

Fuqin Li
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Contact Address:
United States Department of Agriculture
Agricultural Research Service
Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory
City: Beltsville
Province or State: MD
Postal Code: 20705-0000
Country: USA

William Kustas
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Contact Address:
United States Department of Agriculture
Agricultural Research Service
Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory
City: Beltsville
Province or State: MD
Postal Code: 20705-0000
Country: USA

NSIDC USER SERVICES
Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT
Phone: +1 (303) 492-6199
Fax: +1 (303) 492-2468
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
Contact Address:
National Snow and Ice Data Center
CIRES, 449 UCB
University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA

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Reference

Berk A., L.S. Bernstein, G.P. Anderson, P.K. Acharya, D.C. Robertson, J.H. Chetwynd, and S.M. Adler-Golden. 1998. MODTRAN cloud and multiple scattering upgrades with application to AVIRIS. Remote Sensing of the Environment 65: 367-375.

Li, F., T.J. Jackson, W.P. Kustas, T.J. Schmugge, A.N. French, M. Cosh, and R. Bindlish. 2004. Deriving land surface temperature from Landsat 5 and 7 during SMEX02/SMACEX. Remote Sensing of the Environment 92: 521-534.

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). Landsat 7 Science Data User's Handbook. Updated 24 June 2005. http://ltpwww.gsfc.nasa.gov/IAS/handbook/handbook_toc.html Accessed August 2005.



Schmugge, T., S.J. Hook, and C. Coll. 1998. Recovering surface temperature and emissivity from thermal infrared multispectral data. Remote Sensing of the Environment 65: 121-131.

Schneider, K., and W. Mauser. 1996. Processing and accuracy of Landsat Thematic Mapper data for lake surface temperature measurement. International Journal of Remote Sensing 17: 2027-2041.

Metadata Name and Version

Metadata Name: CEOS IDN DIF
Metadata Version: 9.7

Creation and Review Dates

DIF Creation Date: 2005-08-29
Last DIF Revision Date: 2005-08-29

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