Use of Landsat Land Surface Temperature and Vegetation Indices for Monitoring Drought in the Salt Lake Basin Area, Turkey

Table 1

Specifications of Landsat data used in the study.

Sensor	Date	Path/row	Band (µm)	Spatial resolution (m)	Number; of GCP	RMS error; (pixel)
Landsat-5 TM	21/08/2011*	177/033	1: 0.45–0.52	30	43	0.48
	10/08/2007		2: 0.52–0.60		49	0.47
	15/08/2003		3: 0.63–0.69		53	0.45
	01/08/1998		4: 0.76–0.90		50	0.49
	16/08/1989		5: 1.55–1.75		45	0.44
	26/08/1984		7: 2.08–2.35		46	0.43
			6: 10.1–12.5	120

∗The date for the real-time field measurements.