SHIFT HyTES Thermal Imagery for Santa Barbara County

Santa Barbara County, California, is covered by this Level 2 dataset containing surface emissivity and land surface temperature derived from airborne hyperspectral thermal imagery. It consists of 91 flight scenes collected on March 23, 2022, by the HyTES instrument during the SHIFT campaign, covering approximately 1,656 square kilometers. The data, provided by ORNL_CLOUD in HDF5 format, supports the modeling of surface energy and water fluxes.

Use Cases

• Modeling evapotranspiration and water flux using derived land surface temperature (LST) data.
• Analyzing spatial patterns of surface emissivity across diverse plant communities.
• Generating Level 3 products like latent heat flux maps from the 256-band thermal radiance measurements.
• Validating satellite-derived land surface temperature products with high-resolution airborne data.
• Studying the thermal properties of coastal and terrestrial ecosystems in Santa Barbara County.

Strengths

• Contains 91 discrete flight scenes providing detailed spatial coverage.
• Data is collected across 256 spectral bands between 7.5 and 12 micrometers, offering high spectral resolution.
• Covers a specific, well-defined area of approximately 1,656 square kilometers in Santa Barbara County.

Limitations

• Specific column names and the total row count are not provided by any source.
• Sources conflict on the 'last updated' date, with entries from 2022-03-23 and 2026-03-12.

Provenance

Source

ORNL_CLOUD

Collection Method

Collected by the Hyperspectral Thermal Emission Spectrometer (HyTES) instrument deployed on a Twin Otter aircraft.

Time Range

2022-03-23

Freshness

2026-03-12 21:46:33.960937

Geography

Santa Barbara County, California, US, and the nearby ocean.