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Landsat 8 has 11 different imaging bands, and 2 of them (bands 10 and 11) are thermal infrared bands just for measuring heat. For more info, see this Landsat 8
by bhousel 10y ago
Landsat 8 has 11 different imaging bands, and 2 of them (bands 10 and 11) are thermal infrared bands just for measuring heat.
For more info, see this Landsat 8 cheatsheet (written by my awesome coworker Charlie Loyd):
http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/?page_id=5377 http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/?page_id=5377
- tedunangst 10y agoAh, thanks all.
- anc84 10y ago> Our calibration team has found that with current processing these surface brightness temperatures are accurate to within ~±1 K for many 15 – 35° C targets, e.g., growing season vegetated targets. Wow, I would have never expected that! Dump European question: ±1 K is the same as ±1° C, right?
- eCa 10y agoYes. 0K is -273.15C, and 273.15K is 0C.
- unwind 10y agoYes, 1 K is the same temperature difference as 1 °C. See of course Wikipedia for more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelvin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelvin. Oh, and the degree symbol goes with the C, not with the value. :)
- Symbiote 10y agoYou can see some other uses of the satellite data on its website: http://landsat.usgs.gov/gallery.php http://landsat.usgs.gov/gallery.php
- masklinn 10y ago> Dump European question: ±1 K is the same as ±1° C, right? Yes the intervals are identical, the only difference is the scale's starting point. In fact although that's discouraged papers often use Celsius absolutes and Kelvin intervals, as is the case here.