MASTER Airborne Multispectral Imagery of California, Nevada, and Utah

Fifty spectral bands of calibrated radiance data were captured by the MODIS/ASTER Airborne Simulator during seven flights over California, Nevada, and Utah in June 2002. The dataset provides georeferenced imagery at approximately 20-meter spatial resolution across wavelengths from visible to thermal infrared. It is managed by the ORNL_CLOUD organization and includes ancillary flight path and instrument configuration data.

Use Cases

• Land cover classification using 50 spectral bands of calibrated radiance.
• Thermal anomaly detection from the thermal infrared wavelength channels.
• Atmospheric correction research by analyzing radiance across the visible to infrared spectrum.
• Sensor cross-calibration and validation against satellite instruments like MODIS and ASTER.
• Geological mapping by examining spectral signatures in the shortwave and thermal infrared regions.

Strengths

• Contains calibrated radiance data across 50 specific spectral bands from 0.460 to 12.879 micrometers.
• Provides high spatial resolution imagery at approximately 20 meters per pixel.
• Includes extensive ancillary data like flight paths, instrument configuration, and band information for each of the seven flights.

Limitations

• Sources conflict on the last updated date, reporting either 2002-06-18 or 2026-03 13.
• Primary data is stored in the legacy HDF-4 format, which may require specialized software for access.

Provenance

Source

U.S. Department of Energy's Remote Sensing Laboratory (RSL) at Nellis Air Force Base.

Collection Method

Data collected by the MASTER instrument aboard a DOE B-200 aircraft during seven coordinated flights.

Time Range

2002-06-07 to 2002-06-18

Freshness

2026-03-13 00:49:56.185447

Geography

California, Nevada, and Utah, U.S.