Aerosol Optical Depth data used in Kang et al. (2010) and Cressie et al. (2010). The zip file contains multiple files in hdf format. A MATLAB helper file is also enclosed in the zip file to allow for ease of extraction.
References:
Kang, E.L., Cressie, N., and Shi, T. (2010). Using temporal variability to improve spatial mapping with application to satellite data. Canadian Journal of Statistics, 38, 271-289.
Cressie, N., Shi, T., and Kang, E.L. (2010). Fixed rank filtering for spatio-temporal data. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 19, 724-745.