EO:EUM:DAT:0394
Land Surface Temperature with Directional Effects - MSGLand Surface Temperature (LST) is the radiative skin temperature over land. LST plays
an important role in the physics of land surface as it is involved in the processes
of energy and water exchange with the atmosphere. LST is useful for the scientific
community, namely for those dealing with meteorological and climate models. Accurate
values of LST are also of special interest in a wide range of areas related to land
surface processes, including meteorology, hydrology, agrometeorology, climatology
and environmental studies. Land Surface Emissivity (EM), a crucial parameter for LST
retrieval from space, is independently estimated as a function of (satellite derived)
Fraction of Vegetation Cover (FVC) and land cover classification.
In the most recent version of the dataset, information on the expected deviation of
LST estimates from SEVIRI/MSG with respect to a reference view – here considered to
be nadir view – has been added to the original product (LSA-001) as an extra data
layer (LSA-004).
Satellite: MSG
Instrument: SEVIRI
Temporal Extent: 2005-01-16 -
now
Orbit Type: Data Policy: NoConditions
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