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landsat-c2-l1-tirs·dataset

Raw Landsat surface heat imagery (Copernicus)

Landsat Collection 2 Level-1 Thermal Infared
land ESA ESA Copernicus
In plain English

What it measures. Records thermal infrared energy from the ground in two heat-sensing bands, essentially measuring how warm the Earth's surface is.

How it's made. Captured by the Thermal Infrared Sensor aboard Landsat 8 and 9 and provided at Level 1, an early stage of processing.

How & where you'd use it. A specialist raw input for surface-temperature, drought, and irrigation studies. It is not a ready-to-read map and requires further processing.

What's measured

LandsatUSGSSatelliteGlobalImageryThermal

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2021-01-01 → 2025-11-15
  • Spatial extent-180, -90, 180, 90

What you can do with it

  • Track deforestation, fire scars and land-cover change
  • Monitor crop and vegetation health (NDVI/EVI)
  • Map how built-up vs. green an area is over time
Official description

Level 1 thermal inrared data (bands 10 and 11) from Landat 8 and Landsat 9.

Get the data

copernicus_access.py
# ESA Copernicus Data Space — open STAC API (free account)
from pystac_client import Client

cat = Client.open("https://stac.dataspace.copernicus.eu/v1")
search = cat.search(
    collections=["landsat-c2-l1-tirs"],   # add _cog or _nc for a format variant
    bbox=(-10, 35, 30, 60),             # your area (W,S,E,N)
    datetime="2024-01-01/2024-12-31",
)
items = list(search.items())            # then read assets with rioxarray / xarray
Browsing the Copernicus STAC is open; downloading bytes needs a free Copernicus Data Space account.