Landsat TM images L1T product of WRS II path 091 and row 078 were used. All Landsat 5 TM scenes from 2003 to 2008 available from USGS Land Processes Distributed Active Archived Centre were acquired https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/lpdaac/get_data. A part of the scenes (140 km × 100 km), that covers the Barakula State Forest was subset and used for LITS development. MODIS collection 5 Nadir- Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (BRDF) Adjusted Reflectance (NBAR) product was used as the input MODIS reflectance to the STARFM algorithm. The collection 5 MODIS NBAR (MCD43A4) is a 16 days composite product, produced in every 8 days with a quasi-rolling strategy [30]. All NBAR scenes (h31v11) of the area from July 2003 to July 2008 were acquired https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/lpdaac/get_data. MODIS reflectance was used as an input for the STARFM algorithm for gap filling purpose.