Extended Data Fig. 9: Comparison of LST temperature data.
From: Tropical forests are approaching critical temperature thresholds
We show the spatial distribution of LST data for three sensors (VIIRS, MODIS, and ECOSTRESS) for similar time periods (Sept 18–28, 2019) for similar areas in the Amazon basin. The difference between the left, middle and right are different data quality flags for no flag (left), QF g1 from Supplementary Table 1 (middle) and QF g2 (right). We used three levels of quality flags (ECOSTRESS – G1 - 3522 and 3520, G2 =3520, VIIRS – G1 – 12001, 15841, 11745, 32225 and G2 = 32225, and MODIS – G1 - 0 and 65 and G2 -0) for the region depicted in Extended Data Fig. 1a during the same period (18 September to 28 September 2019). Quality flags were complex with 136 for ECOSTRESS and 229 for VIIRS (but only 8 for MODIS).
