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Description

The NASA Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) GEOLST4KHR version 2 swath product provides per-pixel Land Surface Temperature (LST) with a spatial resolution of 4,000 meters (m). The product is produced daily in hourly increments using data acquired from Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) 8 and 10 through 17 satellites for the years 2000 through 2023. The GEOLST4KHR product provides LST values for both North and South America. The GEOLST4KHR data product utilizes the Modern-Era Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications Version 2 / Radiative Transfer for TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder (MERRA-2/RTTOV) Single-Channel Emissivity-Combined ASTER and MODIS Emissivity over Land (CAMEL) algorithm.

The GEOLST4KHR product provides layers for cloud mask, latitude, longitude, land surface temperature, and land surface temperature error. A low-resolution browse is also available showing land surface temperature as an RGB (red, green, blue) image in JPEG format.

Improvements/Changes from Previous Version

  • The land surface temperature layer now contains sea surface temperatures, and there have been updates to the cloud mask algorithm.

Product Summary

Platforms
GOES-8,
GOES-10,
GOES-11,
GOES-12,
GOES-13,
GOES-14,
GOES-15,
GOES-16,
GOES-17
Instruments
GOES-8 Imager,
GOES-10 Imager,
GOES-11 Imager,
GOES-12 Imager,
GOES-13 Imager,
GOES-14 Imager,
GOES-15 Imager,
GOES-16 Imager,
GOES-17 Imager
Spatial Extent
N: 71.892242873168 S: -20.959026825734 E: 3.4957049484841 W: -180
Spatial Resolution
4000 Meters x 4000 Meters
Geographic Region
NORTH AMERICA,
SOUTH AMERICA
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
CARTESIAN
Temporal Extent
2000-04-01 to 2024-01-01
Temporal Resolution
1 Hour
Data Partner
Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC)
Earth and Space Science Division, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA (NASA/JPL/ESSD)
Concept ID
C2167682875-LPDAAC_ECS
Data State
COMPLETE
Processing Level
2
Published
Updated
Science Keywords
Land Surface Temperature

Citation

Citation is critically important for dataset documentation and discovery. This dataset is openly shared, without restriction, in accordance with the EOSDIS Data Use and Citation Guidance.

Copy Citation

Hook, S., & Cawse-Nicholson, K. (2021). Geostationary Earth Orbit Land Surface Temperature Hourly North and South America 4 km V002 [Data set]. NASA Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/MEASURES/LSTE/GEOLST4KHR.002 Date Accessed: 2025-09-12

Data Center Citation

Simon Hook, Kerry Cawse-Nicholson. Geostationary Earth Orbit Land Surface Temperature Hourly North and South America 4 km V002. NASA Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/MEaSUREs/LSTE/GEOLST4KHR.002.

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