MASTER: HyspIRI Airborne Campaign, California, Fall 2015

Seven flights from August to October 2015 collected calibrated radiance and derived land surface data over California and Nevada. The dataset contains Level 1B georeferenced multispectral imagery across 50 bands and Level 2 products including emissivity and land surface temperature. Data were gathered by NASA's MASTER instrument aboard an ER-2 aircraft as part of the HyspIRI preparatory airborne campaign.

Use Cases

• Calibrating and validating satellite-derived land surface temperature and emissivity models using the 5-band thermal infrared data.
• Analyzing surface radiative properties across diverse landscapes with 50-band multispectral radiance imagery at ~50m resolution.
• Studying spatial patterns of heat and energy flux in arid and semi-arid regions using the georeferenced land surface temperature product.
• Developing spectral libraries or classification algorithms for vegetation, soil, and geological features using the visible to thermal infrared wavelength coverage (0.460 to 12.879 µm).

Strengths

• Provides data across a wide spectral range from visible to thermal infrared (0.460 to 12.879 µm) in 50 distinct bands.
• Includes both primary calibrated radiance (L1B) and derived geophysical products like land surface temperature and emissivity (L2).
• Covers a specific, focused campaign of seven flights over a two-month period, offering temporal consistency for the study area.

Limitations

• Exact file size and row/record counts are not provided by any source.
• Sources conflict on the last updated date: one reports 2026-03-13, another reports 2015-10-26.

Provenance

Source

NASA MASTER instrument data collected by ORNL_CLOUD.

Collection Method

Airborne campaign using the MODIS/ASTER Airborne Simulator (MASTER) aboard a NASA ER 2 aircraft.

Time Range

2015-08-24 to 2015-10-26

Freshness

2026-03-13 00:48:39.807788

Geography

California and Nevada, U.S.