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sentinel-3-sl-1-rbt-nrt·dataset

Raw heat-glow and surface-colour images, fast, from ESA's Sentinel-3 SLSTR (1 km detail)

Sentinel-3 SLSTR Radiance and Brightness Temperature (NRT)
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In plain English

What it measures. Brightness temperatures and radiances across the globe, showing how warm surfaces are and how much energy they emit and reflect, at about 500-meter detail for reflective bands and 1-km for thermal bands.

How it's made. Made by ESA Copernicus from the Sentinel-3 Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer, delivered as Level-1 near-real-time radiances and brightness temperatures.

How & where you'd use it. Used to monitor land and sea surface temperatures, support climate studies, and detect heat anomalies.

What's measured

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Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2016-04-19 → ongoing
  • 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

The Copernicus Sentinel-3 SLSTR RBT products provide global brightness temperatures and radiances with a spatial resolution of 500 meters for reflectance bands and 1 kilometer for thermal infrared bands, useful for environmental monitoring and climate studies.

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=["sentinel-3-sl-1-rbt-nrt"],   # 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.