AI-generated Key Takeaways
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MOD10A1 V5 provides daily global snow cover, albedo, and fractional snow cover data at 500m resolution from 2000-02-24 to 2016-12-26.
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This dataset has been superseded by a newer version, MODIS/061/MOD10A1.
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Snow cover is determined using a Normalized Difference Snow Index (NDSI) along with other quality assessments.
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The data is provided by the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) and is available through Google Earth Engine.
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Users can access and analyze the dataset programmatically using the provided Earth Engine snippet and code examples.
- Dataset Availability
- 2000-02-24T00:00:00Z–2016-12-26T00:00:00Z
- Dataset Provider
- NSIDC
- Cadence
- 1 Day
- Tags
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
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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). |
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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. |
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Snow_Albedo_Daily_Tile |
1 | 254 | meters | Snow albedo percentage plus other results. |
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Fractional_Snow_Cover |
0 | 254 | meters | Snow cover percentage plus other results. |
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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
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
Explore with Earth Engine
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');