ELITE Emissivity: MODIS Mid-Infrared NBE in Qinghai Provence at 0.01 degree

The Essential thermal Infrared remoTe sEnsing (ELITE) product suite currently has four types of products, including land surface temperature (LST: clear-sky and all-sky), emissivity (NBE: narrowband emissivity; BBE: broadband emissivity; and spectral emissivity), the component of surface radiation and energy budget (SLUR: surface longwave upwelling radiation; SLDR: surface longwave downward radiation SLDR; SLNR: surface longwave net radiation), and the component of Earth’s radiation budget (OLR; outgoing longwave radiation; RSR: reflected solar radiation). The spatial-temporal resolutions of the ELITE products are mainly determined by the employed satellite data sources. For more information about ELITE products, please refer to the website (https://elite.bnu.edu.cn).

This dataset is the ELITE MODIS Mid-Infrared (MIR) narrowband emissivity (NBE) product (bands 20, 22, and 23; 3.6–4.1 µm) at 0.01-degree spatial resolution over Qinghai Province, China, for January and July 2024. It includes instantaneous retrievals based on MODIS nighttime swath data and monthly composites derived by averaging the instantaneous retrievals after outlier removal using the interquartile range (IQR) method.

Dataset Characteristics:

Spatial Coverage: Qinghai Province, China

Temporal Coverage: 2024-01-01 ~ 2024-01-31; 2024-07-01 ~ 2024-07-31

Spatial Resolution: 0.01 degree

Temporal Resolution: instantaneous and monthly mean

Data Format: Geotiff

Scale: 1

Offset: 0

Fill value: 0