MASTER Airborne Multispectral and Thermal Data for California and Nevada

MASTER instrument data from five airborne flights over California and Nevada, U.S., conducted from August 9 to 20, 2002. The dataset contains Level 1B georeferenced imagery with calibrated radiance across 50 spectral bands and derived Level 2 products including land surface temperature and emissivity. Collection was coordinated by NASA's Dryden (Armstrong) Flight Research Center and the U.S. Department of Energy's Remote Sensing Laboratory.

Use Cases

• Calibrating satellite land surface temperature algorithms using the derived L2 temperature and emissivity data.
• Analyzing surface radiative properties across 50 spectral bands from visible to thermal infrared wavelengths.
• Validating georeferenced multispectral imagery with spatial resolutions between 10 and 50 meters.
• Studying flight path patterns and instrument configuration for airborne campaign planning.
• Creating visualizations and quick assessments using provided browse images and KMZ format files.

Strengths

• Contains data from 50 spectral bands covering a wide wavelength range from 0.460 to 12.879 micrometers.
• Includes derived Level 2 science products such as land surface temperature and 5-band thermal infrared emissivity.
• Data collected during five coordinated flights over a 12-day period in August 2002.

Limitations

• Key quantitative details like total file size, row count, and specific column names are not provided by any source.
• Conflicting last updated dates exist between platforms (2002-08-20 and 2026-03-13), indicating potential metadata inconsistency.

Provenance

Source

NASA's Dryden (Armstrong) Flight Research Center and the U.S. Department of Energy's Remote Sensing Laboratory.

Collection Method

Data collected by the MODIS/ASTER Airborne Simulator (MASTER) instrument aboard NASA ER-2 and DOE B-200 aircraft.

Time Range

2002-08-09 to 2002-08-20

Freshness

2026-03-13 00:49:56.175950

Geography

California and Nevada, U.S.