MOD10A1.005 Terra Snow Cover Daily Global 500m [deprecated]

MODIS/MOD10A1
Dataset Availability
2000-02-24T00:00:00Z–2016-12-26T00:00:00Z
Dataset Provider
Earth Engine Snippet
ee.ImageCollection("MODIS/MOD10A1")
Cadence
1 Day
Tags
albedo
cryosphere
daily
geophysical
global
mod10a1
modis
nsidc
snow
terra

Description

The MOD10A1 V5 Snow Cover Daily Global 500m product contains snow cover, snow albedo, fractional snow cover, and quality assessment (QA) data. Snow cover data are based on a snow mapping algorithm that employs a Normalized Difference Snow Index (NDSI) and other criteria tests.

Bands

Pixel Size
500 meters

Bands

Name Min Max Pixel Size Description
Snow_Cover_Daily_Tile meters

NDSI snow cover plus other results. This value is computed for MOD10_L2 and retrieved when the observation of the day is selected. Possible values are: 0-100 (NDSI snow cover).
Snow_Spatial_QA meters

A basic estimate of the quality of the algorithm result. This value is computed for MOD10_L2 and retrieved with the corresponding observation of the day.
Snow_Albedo_Daily_Tile 1 254 meters

Snow albedo percentage plus other results.
Fractional_Snow_Cover 0 254 meters

Snow cover percentage plus other results.

Terms of Use

Terms of Use

You may download and use photographs, imagery, or text from the NSIDC web site, unless limitations for its use are specifically stated. For more information on usage and citing NSIDC datasets, please visit the NSIDC 'Use and Copyright' page.

Citations

Citations:

  • Hall, D. K., V. V. Salomonson, and G. A. Riggs. 2006. MODIS/Terra Snow Cover Daily L3 Global 500m Grid. Version 5. Boulder, Colorado USA: NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center.

DOIs

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Code Editor (JavaScript)

var dataset = ee.ImageCollection('MODIS/MOD10A1')
    .filterDate('2015-01-01', '2016-01-01');

var visualization = {
  bands: ['Snow_Cover_Daily_Tile'],
  min: 0.0,
  max: 100.0,
  palette: ['black', '0dffff', '0524ff', 'ffffff']
};

Map.setCenter(-41.13, 76.35, 3);

Map.addLayer(dataset, visualization, 'Snow Cover');
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The MOD10A1 V5 Snow Cover Daily Global 500m product contains snow cover, snow albedo, fractional snow cover, and quality assessment (QA) data. Snow cover data are based on a snow mapping algorithm that employs a Normalized Difference Snow Index (NDSI) and other criteria tests.
MODIS/MOD10A1, albedo,cryosphere,daily,geophysical,global,modis,nsidc,snow,terra
2000-02-24T00:00:00Z/2016-12-26T00:00:00Z
-90 -180 90 180
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