MYD11A2.005 Land Surface Temperature and Emissivity 8-Day L3 Global 1km [deprecated]

MODIS/MYD11A2
Dataset Availability
2002-07-04T00:00:00Z–2017-03-22T00:00:00Z
Dataset Provider
Earth Engine Snippet
ee.ImageCollection("MODIS/MYD11A2")
Tags
8-day aqua emissivity global lst modis surface-temperature
myd11a2

Description

The level-3 MODIS global Land Surface Temperature (LST) and Emissivity 8-day data are composed from the daily 1-kilometer LST product (MYD11A1) and stored on a 1-km Sinusoidal grid as the average values of clear-sky LSTs during an 8-day period.

MYD11A2 is comprised of the following layers for daytime and nighttime observations:

  • LST_Day_1km: Daytime Land Surface Temperatures (K), Scale 0.02
  • QC_Day: Daytime Surface Temperature quality control assessments, see QC bit flags
  • Day_view_time: Daytime LST Observation Times (Hours), Scale 0.1
  • Day_view_angl: Daytime View Zenith Angles (Degrees), Offset -65.0
  • LST_Night_1km: Nighttime Land Surface Temperatures (K), Scale 0.02
  • QC_Night: Nighttime Surface Temperature quality control assessments, see QC bit flags
  • Night_view_time: Nighttime LST Observation Times (Hours), Scale 0.1
  • Night_view_angl: Nighttime View Zenith Angles (Degrees), Offset -65.0
  • Emis_31: Bands 31 Emissivity, Scale 0.002, Offset 0.49
  • Emis_32: Bands 32 Emissivity, Scale 0.002, Offset 0.49
  • Clear_sky_days: Clear Sky Day Coverage, see Clear Sky Flags.
  • Clear_sky_nights: Clear Sky Nighttime Coverage, see Clear Sky Flags.

QC bit flags:

  • Bits 0-1: Mandatory QC Flag
    • 00: LST produced, good quality, not necessary to examine detailed QC.
    • 01: LST produced, unreliable or unquantifiable quality, recommend examination of more detailed QC.
    • 10: LST not produced due to cloud effects.
    • 11: LST not produced primarily due to reasons other than clouds.
  • Bits 2-3: Data Quality Flag
    • 00: Good quality L1B in bands 31 and 32.
    • 01: Other quality data.
    • 10: TBD
    • 11: TBD
  • Bits 4-5: Emissivity Error Flag
    • 00: Average emissivity error ≤ 0.01
    • 01: Average emissivity error ≤ 0.02
    • 10: Average emissivity error ≤ 0.04
    • 11: Average emissivity error > 0.04
  • Bits 6-7: LST Error Flag
    • 00: Average LST error ≤ 1 K
    • 01: Average LST error ≤ 2 K
    • 10: Average LST error ≤ 3 K
    • 11: Average LST error > 3 K

Clear Sky Flags:

  • Clear Sky Flag for each day (bit 0 is day 1, bit 1 is day 2, etc):
    • 0: Day/Night is not clear-sky.
    • 1: Day/Night is clear-sky.

Version-5 MODIS/Aqua Land Surface Temperature/Emissivity products are Validated Stage 2, meaning that accuracy has been assessed over a widely distributed set of locations and time periods via several ground-truth and validation efforts. Although there may be later improved versions, these data are ready for use in scientific publications.

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The level-3 MODIS global Land Surface Temperature (LST) and Emissivity 8-day data are composed from the daily 1-kilometer LST product (MYD11A1) and stored on a 1-km Sinusoidal grid as the average values of clear-sky LSTs during an 8-day period. MYD11A2 is comprised of the following layers for daytime and nighttime …
MODIS/MYD11A2, 8-day,aqua,emissivity,global,lst,modis,surface-temperature
2002-07-04T00:00:00Z/2017-03-22T00:00:00Z
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