Identification

Title

Urban Heat MiniCubes

Alternative title(s)

d539393

Abstract

With over 80% of the United States' population living in urban areas, it is critical to advance our understanding and near-/real-time observational capabilities of the environments where most humans live. Recent advances in artificial intelligence present new opportunities to leverage the extensive and disparate amounts of data available to model urban heat. Our dataset leverages remotely sensed images, which provide the benefit of extensive spatial coverage. There are two modalities in the dataset, of varying resolution. The first modality contains observations at an 8-day temporal resolution and at a 30 m spatial resolution, as modulated by the Landsat 8 and 9 satellites. Landsat data included in these files consist of land surface temperature, visible and near-infrared surface reflectances for land surface characterization, and the pixel quality mask for cloud detection. Also included in these files are Sentinel-1 SAR backscatter values to quantify surface roughness. Sentinel-1 observations are resampled to Landsat resolution for inclusion in the dataset. The second modality contains observations at a 10-minute temporal resolution and at a 2 km spatial resolution, as modulated by the GOES-16, 17, and 18 satellites. GOES longwave infrared brightness temperatures are provided to measure the thermal environment of the surface over time. Also included in these files is a microwave land surface temperature product to provide temperature observations amidst cloudy weather.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://gdex.ucar.edu/datasets/d539393/

protocol: https

name: Dataset Description

description: Related Link

function: information

https://gdex.ucar.edu/datasets/d539393/dataaccess/

protocol: https

name: Data Access

description: Related Link

function: download

Unique resource identifier

code

codeSpace

Dataset language

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

environment

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

dataset

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2021-03-30

Keyword set

keyword value

CORIOLIS > Coriolis

DMSP 5D-2/F13 > Defense Meteorological Satellite Program-F13

DMSP 5D-2/F14 > Defense Meteorological Satellite Program-F14

DMSP 5D-3/F15 > Defense Meteorological Satellite Program-F15

DMSP 5D-3/F16 > Defense Meteorological Satellite Program-F16

GCOM-W1 > Global Change Observation Mission 1st-Water

GOES-16

GOES-17 > Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 17

GOES-18 > Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 18

LANDSAT-8 > LANDSAT-8

LANDSAT-9 > LANDSAT-9

TRMM > Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2026-04-15

Keyword set

keyword value

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE > SKIN TEMPERATURE

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD PROPERTIES

EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > SURFACE RADIATIVE PROPERTIES > REFLECTANCE

EARTH SCIENCE > SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > INFRARED WAVELENGTHS > BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE

EARTH SCIENCE > SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > MICROWAVE > BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE

EARTH SCIENCE > SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > RADAR > RADAR BACKSCATTER

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2026-04-15

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

East bounding longitude

North bounding latitude

South bounding latitude

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2022-01-01

End position

2023-12-31

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2026-04-16

Frequency of update

notPlanned

Quality and validity

Lineage

Conformity

Data format

name of format

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Limitations on public access

None

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

email address

datahelp@ucar.edu

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

NSF NCAR Geoscience Data Exchange

email address

datahelp@ucar.edu

web address

https://gdex.ucar.edu

name: NSF NCAR Geoscience Data Exchange

description: The Geoscience Data Exchange (GDEX), managed by the Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) at NSF NCAR, contains a large collection of meteorological, atmospheric composition, and oceanographic observations, and operational and reanalysis model outputs, integrated with NSF NCAR High Performance Compute services to support atmospheric and geosciences research.

function: download

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2026-04-16T22:17:41Z

Metadata language