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MOD10A2

MODIS/Terra Snow Cover 8-Day L3 Global 500m SIN Grid V061

This global Level-3 (L3) data set provides the maximum snow cover extent observed over an eight-day period within 10° x 10° MODIS sinusoidal grid tiles. Tiles are generated by compositing 500 m observations from the 'MODIS/Terra Snow Cover Daily L3 Global 500m Grid' data set (DOI:10.5067/MODIS/MOD10A1.061). A bit flag index is used to track the eight-day snow/no-snow chronology for each 500 m cell. The terms "Version 61" and "Collection 6.1" are used interchangeably in reference to this release of MODIS data.

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Spatial Extent:

Bounding Rectangle:

N: 90.0 S: -90.0 E: 180.0 W: -180.0

Data Format(s):

Distribution: HDF-EOS

Temporal Extent:

2000-02-18 to now

Platform(s):

Terra

Data Center(s):

NASA/GSFC/SED/ESD/HBSL/BISB/MODAPS

Instrument(s):

MODIS

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Title: MODIS/Terra Snow Cover 8-Day L3 Global 500m SIN Grid V061
Version: 61
Publisher: NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center

DOI

10.5067/MODIS/MOD10A2.061

GENERAL DOCUMENTATION: https://doi.org/10.5067/MODIS/MOD10A2.061, Includes a user's guide, supplemental documents like ATBDs and academic papers, How Tos, FAQs, etc.

Purpose
Scientific Research
Search for granules from this collection

Processing Level

Level 3

Geophysical variables mapped on a grid

Quality

Collection Progress
Planned

Related URLs

ISO Topic Categories

IMAGERY/BASE MAPS/EARTH COVER

Additional Attributes

Name: HORIZONTALTILENUMBER INT Description: Horizontal tile number of a grid which increases from left to right
Name: PROCESSVERSION STRING Description: Version of the process software that generated the product.
Name: QAPERCENTGOODQUALITY INT Description: Percent of pixels with good quality
Name: QAPERCENTOTHERQUALITY INT Description: Percent of pixels with not so good quality
Name: SNOWCOVERPERCENT INT Description: Percent of granule that was identified as snow covered; % based on area of granule (swath or tile).
Name: TileID INT Description: MODIS Land tile identification number which represents a geographical area on the surface of the Earth bounded by latitude and longitude coordinates.
Name: VERTICALTILENUMBER INT Description: Vertical tile number of a grid, which increases from top to bottom.
Name: identifier_product_doi STRING Description: Digital object identifier that uniquely identifies this data product
Name: identifier_product_doi_authority STRING Description: URL of the digital object identifier resolving authority

Coverage Type	Zone Identifier	Geometry	Granule Representation
HORIZONTAL		CARTESIAN	GEODETIC

Tiling Identification Systems

System Name	Coordinate 1 Min	Coordinate 1 Max	Coordinate 2 Min	Coordinate 2 Max
MODIS Tile SIN	0.0	35.0	0.0	17.0

Location Keywords

- GEOGRAPHIC REGION
- GLOBAL LAND

NASA NSIDC DAAC
ARCHIVER
- National Snow and Ice Data Center
  CIRES, 449 UCB
  University of Colorado
  Boulder, CO 80309-0449
1 303 492 6199

Email
Archiving Data Center
https://nsidc.org/daac

Home Page
NASA NSIDC DAAC
DISTRIBUTOR
- National Snow and Ice Data Center
  CIRES, 449 UCB
  University of Colorado
  Boulder, CO 80309-0449
1 303 492 6199

Email
Archiving Data Center
https://nsidc.org/daac

Home Page
NASA/GSFC/SED/ESD/HBSL/BISB/MODAPS
PROCESSOR
This data center does not have any addresses listed.
This data center does not have any contact mechanisms listed.
Originating Data Center
https://modaps.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/

Home Page
NASA/GSFC/SED/ESD/HBSL/BISB/MODAPS
ORIGINATOR
This data center does not have any addresses listed.
This data center does not have any contact mechanisms listed.
Originating Data Center
https://modaps.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/

Home Page

NSIDC Services
Technical Contact

NSIDC Services
- CIRES, 449 UCB
  University of Colorado
  Boulder, CO 80309-0449
1 303 492 6199

1 303 492 2468

Email
Dorothy Hall
Technical Contact

Dorothy Hall
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
  Mail stop 614.1
  Greenbelt, MD 20771
This contact does not have any contact mechanisms listed.
George Riggs
Technical Contact

George Riggs
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
  Science Systems and Applications, Inc.
  Code 614.1
  Greenbelt, MD 20771
1 301 614 5650

Email
NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center
User Services

NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center
- Boulder, Colorado
This contact does not have any contact mechanisms listed.

Metadata Dates

Creation	2021-03-30T00:00:00.000Z
Last Revision	2021-07-06T00:00:00.000Z

File Distribution Information

Format: HDF-EOS

Format Type: Native

Format Description: HTTPS

There is no direct distribution information for this collection.

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NASA NSIDC DAAC

NASA NSIDC DAAC

NASA/GSFC/SED/ESD/HBSL/BISB/MODAPS

NASA/GSFC/SED/ESD/HBSL/BISB/MODAPS

Data Contacts

NSIDC Services

NSIDC Services

Dorothy Hall

Dorothy Hall

George Riggs

George Riggs

NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center

NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center

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