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Description

The NASA Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) LEOLSTCMG30 version 1 Climate Modeling Grid (CMG) product provides Land Surface Temperature (LST) derived from the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite data record from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instruments as well as LST error estimates for both day and night. The product will include global LST produced on CMG at monthly timesteps from 2002 to 2020. The MEaSUREs LEOLST product is generated by regridding the monthly LST CMG products from MODIS (MYD21C3) and VIIRS (VNP21C3).

The product will be available on 0.25, 0.5, and 1 degree optimized climate grids with well characterized per-pixel uncertainties. A low-resolution browse is also available showing LST as an RGB (red, green, blue) image in PNG format.

Known Issues

  • Users should be aware that in v001 of the Low Earth Orbit Land Surface Temperature Monthly Global Gridded product (LEOLSTCMG30) the nighttime LST error estimates (LST_Nighterr*) in the one degree, half degree, and quarter degree SDS layers were erroneously filled with zero values, and should not be used for any scientific data analyses.

Product Summary

Platforms
Aqua,
Suomi-NPP
Instruments
MODIS,
VIIRS
Spatial Extent
N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180
Geographic Region
GLOBAL
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
CARTESIAN
Temporal Extent
2002-08-01 to 2020-12-31
Temporal Resolution
1 Month
Data Partner
Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC)
MODIS Adaptive Processing System, Terrestrial Information Systems Laboratory, Earth Sciences Division, Science and Exploration Directorate, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA (NASA/GSFC/SED/ESD/TISL/MODAPS)
Concept ID
c2763264753-lpcloud
Data State
COMPLETE
Processing Level
2
Published
Updated

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

Hulley, G. (2022). Low Earth Orbit Land Surface Temperature Monthly Global Gridded V001 [Data set]. NASA Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/MEASURES/LSTE/LEOLSTCMG30.001 Date Accessed: 2025-07-17

Data Center Citation

Glynn Hulley. 2022. Low Earth Orbit Land Surface Temperature Monthly Global Gridded V001. Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA: NASA Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/MEaSUREs/LSTE/LEOLSTCMG30.001.

Documents

USER'S GUIDE The combined User Guide and Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document provides information related to using the data product along with a description of the physical and mathematical algorithms used in generating the data product.

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