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AN: B31B-0218    [Abstracts]
TI: Production of MODIS Land Science Products
AU: * Wolfe, R E
EM: Robert.E.Wolfe.1@gsfc.nasa.gov
AF: NASA GSFC / Raytheon TSC, Code 922 Greenbelt Rd., Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AU: Masuoka, E J
EM: Edward.J.Masuoka@nasa.gov
AF: NASA GSFC, Code 922 Greenbelt Rd., Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AU: Saleous, N Z
EM: Nazmi.Z.Saleous.1@gsfc.nasa.gov
AF: NASA GSFC / Raytheon TSC, Code 922 Greenbelt Rd., Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AB: The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instruments are aboard the NASA's polar orbiting Terra and Aqua Earth Observing System (EOS) satellites. Since launch MODIS/Terra has acquired over 4.5 years of earth observation data and MODIS/Aqua over two years of data. On each satellite MODIS acquires daily global data in 36 spectral bands - 29 with 1 km, 5 with 500 m and 2 with 250 m nadir pixels. The MODIS Land Science products have been specially tailored to the land research community needs. The MODIS science team has continually improved their algorithms over time and is now planning for the third major reprocessing. A summary of the improvements to the algorithms will be presented as well as some of the factors involved in reliably producing and archiving high quality land science products.
UR: http://modis-land.gsfc.nasa.gov/
DE: 1899 General or miscellaneous
DE: 1694 Instruments and techniques
DE: 1894 Instruments and techniques
DE: 1640 Remote sensing
DE: 0400 Biogeosciences
SC: Biogeosciences [B]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting