MASTER Airborne Campaign Multispectral and Thermal Data

MASTER instrument data from the HyspIRI preparatory campaign includes Level 1B calibrated radiance imagery across 50 spectral bands and Level 2 derived products like land surface temperature and emissivity. The dataset was collected during six NASA ER-2 flights over California and Nevada from May 28 to June 11, 2015. It provides georeferenced multispectral data at approximately 50-meter spatial resolution, accompanied by flight paths, instrument configuration details, and browse images.

Use Cases

• Validating land surface temperature retrieval algorithms using the L2 emissivity and temperature products.
• Analyzing surface spectral properties with L1B calibrated radiance data across 50 bands from visible to thermal infrared.
• Developing and testing preprocessing chains for georeferenced multispectral imagery at ~50m resolution.
• Studying regional land cover and thermal patterns in California and Nevada using the spatially explicit flight data.

Strengths

• Provides calibrated, georeferenced radiance data across 50 spectral bands from 0.460 to 12.879 micrometers.
• Includes derived Level 2 products like land surface temperature and 5-band thermal infrared emissivity.
• Covers a specific, focused campaign with six flights over a two-week period in 2015.

Limitations

• Spatial resolution is approximately 50 meters, which may be coarse for some fine-scale applications.
• Conflicting last updated dates exist between platforms (2015-06-12 on NASA Earthdata vs. 2026-03-13 on Data.gov).
• Specific file sizes, row counts, and detailed column names are not provided by any source.

Provenance

Source

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Collection Method

Collected by the MODIS/ASTER Airborne Simulator (MASTER) instrument aboard a NASA ER-2 aircraft.

Time Range

2015-05-28 to 2015-06-11

Freshness

2026-03-13 00:48:19.644461

Geography

California and Nevada, U.S.