MODIS/Terra Snow Cover 8-Day L3 Global 500m SIN Grid V005
The MODIS/Terra Snow Cover 8-Day L3 Global 500m Grid (MOD10A2) data set contains data fields for maximum snow cover extent over an eight-day compositing period and a chronology of snow occurrence observations in compressed Hierarchical Data Format-Earth Observing System (HDF-EOS) format, along with corresponding metadata. MOD10A2 consists of 1200 km by 1200 km tiles of 500 m resolution data gridded in a sinusoidal map projection. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) snow cover data are based on a snow mapping algorithm that employs a Normalized Difference Snow Index (NDSI) and other criteria tests.
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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: | Platform(s): | TERRA | |
| Data Center(s): | NASA NSIDC DAAC | Instrument(s): | MODIS |
| Version: | 5 | ||
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- Title: MODIS/Terra Snow Cover 8-Day L3 Global 500m SIN Grid V005
- Version: 5
- Publisher: NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center
10.5067/C574UGKQQU1T
- GENERAL DOCUMENTATION: https://doi.org/10.5067/C574UGKQQU1T, Includes a user's guide, supplemental documents like ATBDs and academic papers, How Tos, FAQs, etc.
Collection Information
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Purpose
Scientific Research - Search for granules from this collection
Data Identification
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Processing Level
Level 3
Geophysical variables mapped on a grid
- Quality
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Collection Progress
Complete
Related URLs
Other Descriptive Keywords
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
Acquisition Information
Temporal Information
Spatial Information
| Coverage Type | Zone Identifier | Geometry | Granule Representation |
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| HORIZONTAL | CARTESIAN | GEODETIC |
Tiling Identification Systems
| System Name | Coordinate 1 Min | Coordinate 1 Max | Coordinate 2 Min | Coordinate 2 Max |
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| MODIS Tile SIN | 0.0 | 35.0 | 0.0 | 17.0 |
Location Keywords
- Geographic Region
- Global Land
Data Centers
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NASA NSIDC DAAC
ARCHIVER-
National Snow and Ice Data Center
CIRES, 449 UCB
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0449
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NASA NSIDC DAAC
DISTRIBUTOR-
National Snow and Ice Data Center
CIRES, 449 UCB
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0449
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Data Contacts
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Dorothy Hall
Technical ContactDorothy Hall
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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.
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Vince Salomonson
Technical ContactVince Salomonson
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University of Utah
Department of Meteorology
135 S 1460 E, Rm 809
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
1 801 585 9492
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George Riggs
Technical ContactGeorge Riggs
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NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
Science Systems and Applications, Inc.
Code 614.1
Greenbelt, MD 20771
1 301 614 5650
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NSIDC Services
Technical ContactNSIDC Services
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CIRES, 449 UCB
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0449
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Dorothy Hall
Technical ContactDorothy Hall
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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.
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Vince Salomonson
Technical ContactVince Salomonson
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University of Utah
Department of Meteorology
135 S 1460 E, Rm 809
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
1 801 585 9492
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George Riggs
Technical ContactGeorge Riggs
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NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
Science Systems and Applications, Inc.
Code 614.1
Greenbelt, MD 20771
1 301 614 5650
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NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center
User ServicesNASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center
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Boulder, Colorado
This contact does not have any contact mechanisms listed.
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Archive And Distribution Information
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Format: HDF-EOS
Format Type: Native
Format Description: FTP 0.05 - 3 MB
File Distribution Information
There is no direct distribution information for this collection.