https://cdn.earthdata.nasa.gov/conduit/upload/5182/KeywordsCommunityGuide_Baseline_v1_SIGNED_FINAL.pdf 23.6 2026-03-19T10:41:57.720Z https://gcmd.earthdata.nasa.gov/KeywordViewer/scheme/sciencekeywords/d559b900-eca6-42a4-9311-0297b2ef98ab LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE Date=2013-08-23 User Id=tbs1979 Entity=Definition Operation=UPDATE Field=text System Note=update Definition Old Value=A measure of the thermal energy of the land surface. New Value=Refers to how hot the “surface” of the Earth would feel to the touch in a particular location. From a satellite’s point of view, the “surface” is whatever it sees when it looks through the atmosphere to the ground. It could be snow and ice, the grass on a lawn, the roof of a building, or the leaves in the canopy of a forest. Thus, land surface temperature is not the same as the air temperature that is included in the daily weather report. Date=2013-08-16 User Id=tbs1979 Entity=Definition Operation=UPDATE Field=text System Note=update Definition Old Value=A measure of the thermal energy of the land surface. New Value=A measure of the thermal energy of the land surface. Date=2013-08-16 User Id=tbs1979 Entity=Definition Operation=UPDATE Field=reference System Note=update Definition Old Value=EOSDIS IMS Definitions."http://harp.gsfc.nasa.gov/v0ims/definitions/par_alph.html" Date=2013-08-23 User Id=tbs1979 Entity=Definition Operation=UPDATE Field=reference System Note=update Definition New Value=NASA Earth Observatory Date=2026-02-19 User Id=system System Note=Added narrower relation from LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE [d559b900-eca6-42a4-9311-0297b2ef98ab] to THERMAL ANOMALIES [76613ea6-02c6-4b4f-9ad7-fee52077c0ad] Refers to how hot the “surface” of the Earth would feel to the touch in a particular location. From a satellite’s point of view, the “surface” is whatever it sees when it looks through the atmosphere to the ground. It could be snow and ice, the grass on a lawn, the roof of a building, or the leaves in the canopy of a forest. Thus, land surface temperature is not the same as the air temperature that is included in the daily weather report. 2013-08-23 10:18:46.0