Table 3.

Table 3a. Soil temperatures (K) observed from thermal data logger at the time of MODIS & AATSR overpass.

	Logger A	Logger B	Logger C	Logger D	Logger E
Date: 131104
Time 10:12	309.19	310.21	309.19	308.72	307.58
10.32	309.27	310.32	309.97	308.86	307.97
11:12	309.27	310.29	309.92	308.45	308.49
Av. Temp (K)	309.24	310.29	309.69	308.68	307.95
Date: 021204
Time 10:12	312.67	312.08	312.39	308.11	307.88
10.32	312.98	312.21	312.33	308.07	307.70
11:12	312.98	312.29	312.38	308.64	308.66
Av. Temp (K)	312.88	312.19	312.37	308.27	308.08

Table 3b. Geographical locations of the thermal loggers.
	Geographical description (see Fig 2)	Latitude (0N)	Longitude (0W)	Land cover class
Logger A	North-west	090 26′	000 51′	Urban
Logger B	North-east	090 28′	000 26′	Grassland-bush
Logger C	Central	090 14′	000 37′	Agriculture
Logger D	East	090 04′	000 28′	Open Woodland
Logger E	South	080 56′	000 50′	Closed Woodland

The locations of the thermal loggers named here as A-E are given in Table 3b

The thermal loggers were installed in the Tamale study area only (see Fig 1)