Table 4 Information of the selected datasets.

From: Applicability of Downscaling Land Surface Temperature by Using Normalized Difference Sand Index

Datasets

Sources

Parameters

Temporal and Spatial Resolutions

Usages

Landsat 8

USGS

Surface reflectances

16 day, 100 m (TIRS)/30 m (OLI)

Downscaling

MOD11_L2

NASA MODIS

LST

1 day, 1 km

Applicability Analysis

MOD09GA

Surface reflectances

1 day, 500 m

Applicability Analysis

Land Cover

HiWATER

Land covers

1month, 30 m

Applicability Analysis

Site Observation

LST

10 min, meters

Validation