Correction: Zhao, Q.; Wentz, E.A. A MODIS/ASTER Airborne Simulator (MASTER) Imagery for Urban Heat Island Research. Data 2016, 1, 7

Additional Affiliation(s)

The authors’ affiliations have changed. The corrected affiliations should be:

1. Urban Big Data Centre, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8RZ, UK

2. Spatial Analysis Research Center, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-5302, USA; wentz@asu.edu

The email address of Qunshan Zhao has been changed from qszhao@asu.edu to qunshan.zhao@glasgow.ac.uk. And the telephone number information could be removed.

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Text Correction

There was an error in the original publication [1], in the sentence below:

“Because the original MASTER data does not include any geolocation information and includes distorted areas due to the aircraft wobble, high-quality reference imagery is required for geometric correction.”

But after discussion with the NASA-MASTER data team, we concluded that the MASTER data contains the geolocation information directly.

A correction has been made to Section 3.1, Raw MASTER and Reference Imagery, Page 4:

The sentence “Because the original MASTER data does not include any geolocation information and includes distorted areas due to the aircraft wobble, high-quality reference imagery is required for geometric correction.” Should be replaced with “In this research, we used high-resolution reference imagery to do the geometric correction for the distorted areas of MASTER data due to the aircraft wobble. However, the native file format (HDF) of all MASTER L1b data, which are the final processed datasets published publicly through NASA by the Airborne Sensor Facility which operates MASTER, include many embedded Scientific Data Sets (or SDS) and global attributes, and specifically include Pixel Latitude, Pixel Longitude, and Pixel Elevation. MASTER flies with a high precision position and orientation system, and the GPS/POS data is processed to a high degree of accuracy after every flight. Every pixel of MASTER data that is viewable by the public contains embedded latitude, longitude, and elevation data.”

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The authors state that the scientific conclusions are unaffected. This correction was approved by the Academic Editor. The original publication has also been updated.