MASTER: HyspIRI Airborne Campaign, California, Early Spring 2013, V2

MASTER instrument data from a 2013 NASA airborne campaign includes Level 1B georeferenced multispectral imagery and derived Level 2 products. The dataset covers six ER-2 aircraft flights over California and Nevada from March 26 to April 19, 2013, collecting calibrated radiance across 50 spectral bands and generating land surface temperature and emissivity maps. It was produced by NASA as part of the preparatory HyspIRI mission and includes ancillary flight information.

Use Cases

• Validating satellite-derived land surface temperature and emissivity algorithms using the L2 thermal infrared band products.
• Analyzing surface radiative properties across diverse landscapes with 50-band multispectral radiance imagery at ~50m resolution.
• Studying seasonal land cover changes in early spring across California and Nevada using georeferenced flight data.
• Developing and testing methods for the future HyspIRI mission using preparatory airborne simulator data.

Strengths

• Data includes calibrated radiance from 50 spectral bands covering a wide wavelength range from 0.460 to 12.879 micrometers.
• Collection spans six coordinated flights over a 25-day period, providing temporal coverage for the early spring season.
• Dataset provides multiple derived geophysical products, including land surface temperature and 5-band emissivity in the thermal infrared range.

Limitations

• Spatial resolution is approximately 50 meters, which may be coarse for some fine-scale landscape studies.
• There is a conflict in the reported last update date: Data.gov lists 2026-03-13, while NASA Earthdata lists 2013-04 19.
• Specific file sizes, row counts, and a precise data license are not provided across the sources.

Provenance

Source

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Collection Method

Data collected by the MODIS/ASTER Airborne Simulator (MASTER) instrument aboard a NASA ER-2 aircraft during a dedicated campaign.

Time Range

2013-03-26 to 2013-04-19

Freshness

2026-03-13 00:58:40.398092

Geography

California and Nevada, United States