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This page provides access to a variety of MODIS and MERRA-2 datasets related to land surface properties, including albedo, BRDF, and snow cover.
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Datasets offer daily, 16-day, and hourly temporal resolutions, with spatial resolutions ranging from 500 meters to 0.05 degrees.
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Products include parameters, quality information, and derived products such as albedo and nadir BRDF-adjusted reflectance.
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These datasets are primarily global in coverage and are suitable for studying land surface changes, climate modeling, and other Earth science applications.
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Both Terra and Aqua MODIS observations are represented, along with radiation diagnostics from MERRA-2.
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ECOSTRESS Tiled Ancillary NDVI and Albedo L2 Global 70 m V002
The ECOSTRESS Tiled Ancillary NDVI and Albedo (ECO_L2T_STARS) V002 dataset provides Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and albedo data at a 70m spatial resolution. This ancillary product, essential for understanding plant water needs and stress, is created through a data fusion process that combines Visible … albedo land ndvi plant-productivity -
MCD43A1.061 MODIS BRDF-Albedo Model Parameters Daily 500m
The MCD43A1 V6.1 Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function and Albedo (BRDF/Albedo) Model Parameters dataset is a 500 meter daily 16-day product. The Julian date represents the 9th day of the 16-day retrieval period, and consequently the observations are weighted to estimate the BRDF/Albedo for that day. … albedo brdf daily global modis nasa -
MCD43A2.061 MODIS BRDF-Albedo Quality Daily 500m
The MCD43A2 V6.1 Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function and Albedo (BRDF/Albedo) Quality dataset is a 500 meter daily 16-day product. It contains all the quality information for the corresponding 16-day MCD43A3 Albedo and the MCD43A4 Nadir-BRDF (NBAR) products. The MCD43A2 contains individual band quality and observation … albedo brdf daily global modis nasa -
MCD43A3.061 MODIS Albedo Daily 500m
The MCD43A3 V6.1 Albedo Model dataset is a daily 16-day product. It provides both directional hemispherical reflectance (black sky albedo) and bihemispherical reflectance (white sky albedo) for each of the MODIS surface reflectance bands (band 1 through band 7) as well as 3 broad spectrum … albedo black-sky daily global modis nasa -
MCD43A4.061 MODIS Nadir BRDF-Adjusted Reflectance Daily 500m
The MCD43A4 V6.1 Nadir Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function Adjusted Reflectance (NBAR) product provides 500 meter reflectance data of the MODIS "land" bands 1-7. These are adjusted using a bidirectional reflectance distribution function to model the values as if they were collected from a nadir view. … albedo brdf daily global modis nasa -
MCD43C3.061 BRDF/Albedo Daily L3 0.05 Deg CMG
The MCD43C3 Version 6.1 Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function and Albedo (BRDF/Albedo) Albedo dataset is produced daily using 16 days of Terra and Aqua MODIS data in a 0.05 degree (5,600 meters at the equator) Climate Modeling Grid (CMG). Data are temporally weighted to the ninth … albedo black-sky brdf daily global modis -
MERRA-2 M2T1NXRAD: Radiation Diagnostics V5.12.4
M2T1NXRAD (or tavg1_2d_rad_Nx) is an hourly time-averaged data collection in Modern-Era Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications version 2 (MERRA-2). This collection consists of radiation diagnostics, such as surface albedo, cloud area fraction, in cloud optical thickness, surface incoming shortwave flux (i.e. solar radiation), surface … albedo atmosphere climate emissivity merra shortwave -
MOD10A1.061 Terra Snow Cover Daily Global 500m
The MOD10A1 V6.1 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. General … albedo cryosphere daily geophysical global modis -
MYD10A1.061 Aqua Snow Cover Daily Global 500m
The MYD10A1 V6 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. General … albedo aqua cryosphere daily geophysical global