Remote sensing data preparation: (Ascii data are attached.)
1.	MODIS data:
a.	100.5 x 100.5 km MODIS albedo: 
Product:	MOD09A1 8 day 500m	
Coordinates:	Latitude: 45.9459, Longitude: -90.2723 (WGS84 datum)	
Areal Extent:	 100.5 km Wide x 100.5 km	
Subset Date Range:	July. 12, 2011 (2011193) to August. 29, 2011 (2011241)	
description	Scale Factor = 0.0001, Units= reflectance	

There are 7 bands representing reflectance of different spectrum, so there are 7 files for each day.

b.	enhanced vegetation index
Product:	MOD13Q1 16 day 250m	
Coordinates:	Latitude: 45.9459, Longitude: -90.2723 (WGS84 datum)	
Areal Extent:	100.25 km Wide x 100.25 km 	
Subset Date Range:	July. 12, 2011 (2011193) to August. 29, 2011 (2011241)	
description	Scale Factor = .0001, Units= NDVI ratio - No unit	

Product:	MOD11A2 8 day 1km	
Coordinates:	Latitude: 45.9459, Longitude: -90.2723 (WGS84 datum)	
Areal Extent:	Approximately 101 km Wide x 101 km High	
Subset Date Range:	July. 12, 2011 (2011193) to August. 29, 2011 (2011241)	
description	Scale Factor = 0.02, Units= Kelvin	
c.	land surface temperature

I extracted LST for day time and night time separately, so there are two files for each day.
d.	land cover
This is 500m resolution image obtained in 2011. The legend is Collection 5 IGBP Type_1.

Here we can see that no. 11 represents wetlands, which provides us a way to offer wetland mask. While MOD44W data is processed in 2000, which is a little bit old, but it will be ready soon. And for all txt data, I just leave xllcorner and yllcorner the default value since by now I didn’t get an exact value for these two. 

2.	Local high-res land surface temperature (AVIRIS, MASTER) and land cover (Quickbird)
AVIRIS data and QB data are only free for a few sites since they are high-res data. It is still a little possible that we can get AVIRIS data since it says:
“Any graduate student may receive one AVIRIS flight line per year for graduate research at no cost.  These data are made available on a best effort basis after data for NASA funded investigators have been calibrated and distibuted.
Please note that when referring to/requesting AVIRIS data, we are working to use the terms "imaging spectroscopy" and "imaging spectrometer data" rather than "hyperspectral." This allows us to communicate more clearly with our physics, chemistry, and biology science colleagues.
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 The AVIRIS flight and run (i.e. f08619t01p00_r05)

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