MASTER Airborne Multispectral Imagery of Costa Rica, 2005

MASTER airborne sensor data provides Level 1B georeferenced multispectral imagery from 23 NASA WB-57 flights over Costa Rica. The dataset contains calibrated radiance measurements across 50 spectral bands, from visible to thermal infrared wavelengths, at approximately 10-meter spatial resolution. It was collected for the CARTA-2005 project, a collaboration between NASA and Costa Rica's Centro Nacional de Alta Tecnologia.

Use Cases

• Land cover classification and change detection using 50-band multispectral imagery.
• Surface temperature and thermal anomaly analysis from thermal infrared bands.
• Atmospheric correction and sensor validation studies via calibrated radiance data.
• Flight path analysis for mission planning and geolocation assessment.

Strengths

• Contains data from 23 distinct flights, providing multiple observational passes.
• Offers high spectral resolution with 50 bands covering 0.460 to 12.879 micrometers.
• Provides high spatial resolution of approximately 10 meters for detailed analysis.
• Includes ancillary data like flight paths, instrument configuration, and browse images.

Limitations

• Specific row counts, file sizes, and complete column names are not provided by any source.
• Sources conflict on the last updated date (2006-03 13 vs. 2005-04-06).
• Primary data is in HDF-4 format, which may require specialized software for access.

Provenance

Source

NASA and Centro Nacional de Alta Tecnologia (CENAT) of Costa Rica for the CARTA-2005 project.

Collection Method

Data collected by the MODIS/ASTER Airborne Simulator (MASTER) instrument aboard a NASA WB-57 aircraft.

Time Range

2005-03-01 to 2005-04 06

Freshness

2026-03-13 00:59:47.473874

Geography

Costa Rica