Remotely Sensed Thermal Anomalies in Western Colorado
This layer contains the areas identified as areas of anomalous surface temperature from Landsat satellite imagery in Western Colorado. Data was obtained for two different dates. The digital numbers of each Landsat scene were converted to radiance and the temperature was calculated in degrees Kelvin and then converted to degrees Celsius for each land cover type using the emissivity of that cover type. And this process was repeated for each of the land cover types (open water, barren, deciduous forest and evergreen forest, mixed forest, shrub/scrub, grassland/herbaceous, pasture hay, and cultivated crops). The temperature of each pixel within each scene was calculated using the thermal band. In order to calculate the temperature an average emissivity value was used for each land cover type within each scene. The NLCD 2001 land cover classification raster data of the zones that cover Colorado were downloaded from USGS site and used to identify the land cover types within each scene. Areas that had temperature residual greater than 2o, and areas with temperature equal to 1o to 2o, were considered Landsat modeled very warm and warm surface exposures (thermal anomalies), respectively.
Note: 'o' is used in this description to represent lowercase sigma.
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TY - DATA
AB - This layer contains the areas identified as areas of anomalous surface temperature from Landsat satellite imagery in Western Colorado. Data was obtained for two different dates. The digital numbers of each Landsat scene were converted to radiance and the temperature was calculated in degrees Kelvin and then converted to degrees Celsius for each land cover type using the emissivity of that cover type. And this process was repeated for each of the land cover types (open water, barren, deciduous forest and evergreen forest, mixed forest, shrub/scrub, grassland/herbaceous, pasture hay, and cultivated crops). The temperature of each pixel within each scene was calculated using the thermal band. In order to calculate the temperature an average emissivity value was used for each land cover type within each scene. The NLCD 2001 land cover classification raster data of the zones that cover Colorado were downloaded from USGS site and used to identify the land cover types within each scene. Areas that had temperature residual greater than 2o, and areas with temperature equal to 1o to 2o, were considered Landsat modeled very warm and warm surface exposures (thermal anomalies), respectively.
Note: 'o' is used in this description to represent lowercase sigma.
AU - Hussein, Khalid
DB - Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI)
DP - Open EI | National Renewable Energy Laboratory
DO - 10.15121/1148763
KW - geothermal
KW - LANDSAT
KW - ASTER
KW - Thermal Infrared
KW - Colorado
KW - Remote sensing
KW - ArcGIS
KW - GIS
KW - shapefile
KW - shape file
KW - geospatial data
KW - data
KW - anomaly detection
KW - satellite imagery
KW - surface temperature
KW - thermal anomalies
LA - English
DA - 2012/02/01
PY - 2012
PB - Flint Geothermal, LLC
T1 - Remotely Sensed Thermal Anomalies in Western Colorado
UR - https://doi.org/10.15121/1148763
ER -
Hussein, Khalid. Remotely Sensed Thermal Anomalies in Western Colorado. Flint Geothermal, LLC, 1 February, 2012, GDR. https://doi.org/10.15121/1148763.
Hussein, K. (2012). Remotely Sensed Thermal Anomalies in Western Colorado. [Data set]. GDR. Flint Geothermal, LLC. https://doi.org/10.15121/1148763
Hussein, Khalid. Remotely Sensed Thermal Anomalies in Western Colorado. Flint Geothermal, LLC, February, 1, 2012. Distributed by GDR. https://doi.org/10.15121/1148763
@misc{OEDI_Dataset_6640,
title = {Remotely Sensed Thermal Anomalies in Western Colorado},
author = {Hussein, Khalid},
abstractNote = {This layer contains the areas identified as areas of anomalous surface temperature from Landsat satellite imagery in Western Colorado. Data was obtained for two different dates. The digital numbers of each Landsat scene were converted to radiance and the temperature was calculated in degrees Kelvin and then converted to degrees Celsius for each land cover type using the emissivity of that cover type. And this process was repeated for each of the land cover types (open water, barren, deciduous forest and evergreen forest, mixed forest, shrub/scrub, grassland/herbaceous, pasture hay, and cultivated crops). The temperature of each pixel within each scene was calculated using the thermal band. In order to calculate the temperature an average emissivity value was used for each land cover type within each scene. The NLCD 2001 land cover classification raster data of the zones that cover Colorado were downloaded from USGS site and used to identify the land cover types within each scene. Areas that had temperature residual greater than 2o, and areas with temperature equal to 1o to 2o, were considered Landsat modeled very warm and warm surface exposures (thermal anomalies), respectively.
Note: 'o' is used in this description to represent lowercase sigma.
},
url = {https://gdr.openei.org/submissions/302},
year = {2012},
howpublished = {GDR, Flint Geothermal, LLC, https://doi.org/10.15121/1148763},
note = {Accessed: 2025-04-24},
doi = {10.15121/1148763}
}
https://dx.doi.org/10.15121/1148763
Details
Data from Feb 1, 2012
Last updated Aug 23, 2021
Submitted Feb 26, 2014
Organization
Flint Geothermal, LLC
Contact
Khalid Hussein
303.492.6782
Authors
Original Source
https://gdr.openei.org/submissions/302Research Areas
Keywords
geothermal, LANDSAT, ASTER, Thermal Infrared, Colorado, Remote sensing, ArcGIS, GIS, shapefile, shape file, geospatial data, data, anomaly detection, satellite imagery, surface temperature, thermal anomaliesDOE Project Details
Project Name Recovery Act: Use Remote Sensing Data (selected visible and infrared spectrums) to locate high temp ground anomalies in Colorado.Confirm heat flow potential w/ on-site temp surveys to drill deep resource wells
Project Lead Mark Ziegenbein
Project Number EE0002828