MASTER FireSense: Airborne Multispectral Imagery for Wildfire Management
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Description
NASA's MASTER instrument collected Level 1B and Level 2 data products during seven flights over California, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida from March 17 to April 18, 2025, as part of the FireSense project. The dataset provides georeferenced multispectral imagery across 50 spectral bands, from visible to thermal infrared wavelengths, at approximately 10-meter spatial resolution. It includes calibrated radiance data, flight paths, instrument configuration, and browse images to support analysis of wildland fire dynamics.
Use Cases
Calibrating satellite fire detection algorithms based on high-resolution airborne radiance measurements.
Mapping fuel moisture and vegetation stress using thermal infrared and multispectral bands.
Analyzing fire progression and burn severity from georeferenced imagery collected over multiple flights.
Validating atmospheric correction models for wildfire smoke using spectral band information across 0.460 to 12.879 micrometers.
Strengths
Provides data from 50 spectral bands, offering detailed spectral information from visible to thermal infrared wavelengths.
Features a high spatial resolution of approximately 10 meters per pixel for detailed landscape analysis.
Includes ancillary data such as flight paths, instrument configuration, and summary information for each of the 7 flights.
Limitations
Metadata completeness is medium; specific column names and row counts are not provided across any platform.
Conflicting license information exists between platforms, with one specifying 'other-license-specified' and another listing 'None'.
The dataset's temporal coverage is limited to a one-month period in Spring 2025.
Provenance
Source
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Collection Method
Collected via the MODIS/ASTER Airborne Simulator (MASTER) instrument aboard a NASA B200 aircraft.
Time Range
2025-03-17 to 2025-04-18
Freshness
2026-04-10 01:19:57.019608
Geography
California, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida, U.S.
Data formats include HDF-4 for L1B products and HDF-5/KMZ for L2 products, which may require specialized software for access and analysis.