Surface Temperature Processing
Surface temperature was obtained from Landsat 7 thermal band 6(1). We obtained monthly composite data for the month of July 2010 from the Global Web-enables Landsat Data (WELD) website. Each monthly composite image is normally a composite of two Landsat scenes because LANDSAT returns to any single location every 16 days. Using a composite scene helps address the Landsat 7 scan line corrector error. WELD data is terrain-corrected and radiometrically calibrated Landsat data (Roy et al., 2010). Top-of the -Atmosphere reflectance was converted to surface temperature followed the methodology detailed in Kremer et al. (2018) in processing surface temperature.