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.