# Landsat Collection 2 Surface Temperature
*data products*

## Specifications
- **level**: L2
- **distributor**: usgs
- **spectral range nm**: {"min":10600,"max":11190}
- **spectral band count**: 1
- **gsd m**: {"native":30,"resampled":30}
- **file format**: Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF
- **access endpoint**: https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov
- **access model**: open
- **licence**: USGS public domain (no restrictions on use or redistribution)
- **primary data portal url**: https://www.usgs.gov/landsat-missions/landsat-collection-2-surface-temperature
- **use cases**: ["Urban heat island effects","Extreme heat event mapping","Hydrologic and energy-balance studies"]
- **practical limitations**: ["Thermal measurements are mixed at building scale; the delivered grid is 30 m but Landsat thermal inputs are coarser than visible bands","Surface temperature processing depends on ASTER GED and has gaps where required ASTER GED data are missing"]
- **deployment context**: orbital
- **entity type**: data_product
- **last verified date**: 2026-06-14
- **verified by**: agency-doc
- **claim status**: agency-sourced
- **provider**: usgs
- **attributes**: {"level":"L2","distributor":"usgs","spectral_range_nm":"{\"min\":10600,\"max\":11190}","spectral_band_count":1,"gsd_m":"{\"native\":30,\"resampled\":30}","file_format":"Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF","access_endpoint":"https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov","access_model":"open","licence":"USGS public domain (no restrictions on use or redistribution)","primary_data_portal_url":"https://www.usgs.gov/landsat-missions/landsat-collection-2-surface-temperature","use_cases":"[\"Urban heat island effects\",\"Extreme heat event mapping\",\"Hydrologic and energy-balance studies\"]","practical_limitations":"[\"Thermal measurements are mixed at building scale; the delivered grid is 30 m but Landsat thermal inputs are coarser than visible bands\",\"Surface temperature processing depends on ASTER GED and has gaps where required ASTER GED data are missing\"]","deployment_context":"orbital"}
- **relevance**: in-scope

## Editorial
Landsat Collection 2 Surface Temperature is an open USGS Level 2 product for surface temperature retrieval from Landsat thermal observations [^usgs-landsat-st]. The product is distributed through USGS access channels including EarthExplorer and the Landsat Collection 2 Surface Temperature portal, with no restrictions on use or redistribution under USGS public-domain terms [^usgs-landsat-st]. It is delivered as Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF and is represented in this catalogue as a 30 m grid product from a thermal input range of 10600 to 11190 nm [^usgs-landsat-st].

The product is directly relevant to urban heat island analysis, extreme heat event mapping, and hydrologic or energy-balance studies [^usgs-landsat-st]. For building-thermal buyers, the 30 m delivered grid can support neighbourhood, parcel cluster, or corridor analysis, but individual building surfaces may be mixed within one pixel [^usgs-landsat-st]. Processing depends on ASTER GED emissivity inputs, so gaps can occur where the required ASTER GED data are missing [^usgs-landsat-st].

## Compositional position
- building-thermal (topics) --[topic_capabilities]--> Landsat Collection 2 Surface Temperature

## Sources
- [usgs-landsat-st] | Landsat Collection 2 Surface Temperature, USGS | https://www.usgs.gov/landsat-missions/landsat-collection-2-surface-temperature | tier=agency-doc | accessed=2026-06-14

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