MODIS Spectral Bands

BAND # RANGE RANGE KEY USE nm um Reflected Emitted 1 620670 Absolute Land Cover Transformation, Vegetation Chlorophyll 2 841876 Cloud Amount, Vegetation Land Cover Transformation 3 459479 Soil/Vegetation Differences 4 545565 Green Vegetation 5 1230 Leaf/Canopy Differences 1250 6 1628 Snow/Cloud Differences 1652 7 2105 Cloud Properties, Land 2155 Properties 8 405420 Chlorophyll 9 438448 Chlorophyll 10 483493 Chlorophyll 11 526536 Chlorophyll 12 546556 Sediments 13h 662672 Atmosphere, Sediments 13l 662672 Atmosphere, Sediments 14h 673683 Chlorophyll Fluorescence 14l 673683 Chlorophyll Fluorescence 15 743753 Aerosol Properties 16 862877 Aerosol Properties, Atmospheric Properties 17 890920 Atmospheric Properties, Cloud Properties 18 931941 Atmospheric Properties, Cloud Properties 19 915965 Atmospheric Properties, Cloud Properties 20 3.660 Sea Surface Temperature 3.840 21 3.929 Forest Fires & Volcanoes 3.989 22 3.929 Cloud Temperature, Surface

23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 1360 1390

3.989 4.020 4.080 4.433 4.498 4.482 4.549

6.535 6.895 7.175 7.475 8.400 8.700 9.580 9.880 10.780 11.280 11.770 12.270

Temperature Cloud Temperature, Surface Temperature Cloud Fraction, Troposphere Temperature Cloud Fraction, Troposphere Temperature Cloud Fraction (Thin Cirrus), Troposphere Temperature Mid Troposphere Humidity Upper Troposphere Humidity Surface Temperature Total Ozone

33 34 35 36

Cloud Temperature, Forest Fires & Volcanoes, Surface Temp. Cloud Height, Forest Fires & Volcanoes, Surface Temperature 13.185 Cloud Fraction, Cloud Height 13.485 13.485 Cloud Fraction, Cloud Height 13.785 13.785 Cloud Fraction, Cloud Height 14.085 14.085 Cloud Fraction, Cloud Height 14.385

MODIS Metadata
MODIS products have two sources of metadata: the embedded HDF metadata, and the external ECS metadata. The HDF metadata contains valuable information including global attributes and data set-specific attributes pertaining to the granule. The structure of this metadata is broadly similar to that of an ASTER HDF file. The ECS (generated by the EOSDIS Core System) .met file is the external metadata file in XML format, which is delivered to the user along with the MODIS product. It provides a subset of the HDF metadata. Some key features of certain MODIS metadata attributes include the following: The Xdim and Ydim represent the rows and columns of the data, respectively The Projection and ProjParams identify the projection and its corresponding projection

parameters The Sinusoidal Projection is used for most of the gridded MODIS land products, and has a unique sphere measuring 6371007.181 meters. The UpperLeftPointMtrs is in projection coordinates, and identifies the very upper left corner of the upper left pixel of the image data The LowerRightMtrs identifies the very lower right corner of the lower right pixel of the image data. These projection coordinates are the only metadata that accurately reflect the extreme corners of the gridded image There are additional BOUNDINGRECTANGLE and GRINGPOINT fields within the metadata, which represent the latitude and longitude coordinates of the geographic tile corresponding to the data The Data Set attributes contain specific SDS information such as the data range and applicable scaling factors for the data. The LP DAAC data products page provides these details within a concise document for each of the products. An HDF-EOS file also contains EOS core metadata essential for EOS search services. Any tool that processes standard HDF files can read an HDFEOS file. However, it is difficult for a standard HDF call to interpret HDF-EOS geolocation or temporal information without further knowledge of the file structure.

MODIS Data Processing

Along with all the data from other instruments on board the Terra and Aqua platforms, MODIS data are transferred to ground stations in White Sands, New Mexico, via the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS). The data are then sent to the EOS Data and Operations System (EDOS) at the Goddard Space Flight Center. After Level-0 processing at EDOS, the Goddard Space Flight Center Earth Sciences Distributed Active Archive Center (GES DAAC) produces the Level 1A, Level 1B, geolocation and cloud mask products. Higher-level MODIS land and atmosphere products are produced by the MODIS Adaptive Processing System (MODAPS), and then are parceled out among three DAACs for distribution. Ocean color products are produced by the Ocean Color Data Processing System (OCDPS) and distributed to the science and applications community.

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MODIS/Terra Snow Cover Daily L3 Global 500m SIN Grid

Data Set MOD10A1.5 Date 2010-01-01 - 2012-08-31 gpolygon(((31.23148,78.71945), (31.24123,80.16463), Spatial (29.87255,80.13494), (29.87193,78.4888))) Cloud Cover % Less than or equal to 10% Day/Night Flag D parameterName=Snow_Cover_Daily_Tile+scienceQualityFlag=Not Science QA Investigated

Data Set MOD10A1.5 Date 2010-01-01 - 2012-08-31 gpolygon(((31.23148,78.71945), (31.24123,80.16463), Spatial (29.87255,80.13494), (29.87193,78.4888))) Cloud Cover % Less than or equal to 10% Day/Night Flag D parameterName=Snow_Cover_Daily_Tile+scienceQualityFlag=Inferred Science QA Passed

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