MYD11B3 - MODIS/Aqua Land Surface Temperature/Emissivity Monthly L3 Global 6km SIN Grid
The Aqua Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Land Surface Temperature/Emissivity Monthly (MYD11B3) Version 6.1 product provides average monthly per pixel Land Surface Temperature and Emissivity (LST&E) in a 1,200 by 1,200 kilometer (km) tile with a pixel size of 5,600 meters (m). Each LST&E pixel value in the MYD11B3 is a simple average of all the corresponding values from the MYD11B1 collected during the month period. Each MYD11B3 granule consists of 19 layers including daytime and nighttime layers for LSTs, quality control assessments, observation times, view zenith angles, and number of clear sky observations along with percentage of land in the tile and emissivities from bands 20, 22, 23, 29, 31, and 32. Unique to the MYD11B products are additional day and night LST layers generated from band 31 of the corresponding 1 km MYD11_L2 swath product aggregated to the 6 km grid.
The Version 6.1 Level-1B (L1B) products have been improved by undergoing various calibration changes that include: changes to the response-versus-scan angle (RVS) approach that affects reflectance bands for Aqua and Terra MODIS, corrections to adjust for the optical crosstalk in Terra MODIS infrared (IR) bands, and corrections to the Terra MODIS forward look-up table (LUT) update for the period 2012 - 2017. A polarization correction has been applied to the L1B Reflective Solar Bands (RSB).
| Shortname: | MYD11B3 |
| Platform: | Aqua |
| Instrument: | MODIS |
| Processing Level: | Level-3 |
| Data Format: | HDF-EOS |
| Spatial Resolution: | 6km |
| Temporal Resolution: | monthly |
| ArchiveSets: | 61 |
| Collection: | MODIS Collection 6.1 - Level 1, Atmosphere, Land (ArchiveSet 61) |
| PGE Number: | PGE115 |
| File Naming Convention: | Syntax: ESDT.AYYYYDDD.HHMM.VVV.YYYYDDDHHMMSS.Format
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| Keywords: | Climate Change, Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity, Fire |