The William T. Pecora Award is presented annually to individuals or groups that have made outstanding contributions toward understanding the Earth by means of remote sensing. The Department of the Interior (DOI) and the National Aeronautics and Space Admi…
LP DAAC is pleased to announce the release of an updated version of the MODIS Reprojection Tool, MRT 4.0. Platform-specific install packages of the new software will be available for download beginning February 13, including Macintosh and Linux-64.
An upda…
Users of the LP DAAC MODIS Extract Tool, who run the tool against the LP DAAC Data Pool for data collection, should update their script for a machine name change. To do this, users need to update their MODExtract script from the machine name e0dps01 to e4…
Terra ASTER
During the period October 2-7, 2007, new ASTER data collection will be interrupted due to required engineering activity involving the ASTER SWIR subsystem on the Terra spacecraft. It is possible that this interruption may extend for longer than this perio…
Terra ASTER
The current ASTER DEM production software has a water detection option. The default option is "water = on," but users may select "water = off."
The default option generally produces satisfactory results. However, anomalous results have …
Combined MODIS
Unlike MODIS V004 MOD43, the V005 BRDF, Albedo, and NBAR products are known as MCD43. Both Terra and Aqua data are used in the generation of the new V005 products, providing the highest probability for quality input data and designating them as "MCD,…
Terra ASTER
On May 9, 2007, the LP DAAC began offering ASTER On-Demand Level-2 and Level-3 products through GloVis. Additionally, all ASTER products on GloVis now include a DVD media ordering option. ASTER products requested via FTP cost $80 (US) per granule and $91 …
Terra MODIS
The University of Maryland MODIS Land Science Computing Facility would like to make the following statement concerning the version of MOD44B (Vegetation Continuous Fields (VCF)) that has been distributed since February 7, 2007 (MOD44B.004).
The collection …
On March 28, 2007, the LP DAAC began offering DVD as an option for ASTER distribution. The DVD ordering option for ASTER will be available through the EOS Data Gateway (EDG). ASTER pricing on DVD media will be $91 (US) per granule, with the exception of t…
Terra ASTER
On March 5, 2007, the LP DAAC started offering a new suite of ASTER Level-3 on-demand Orthorectified Image products. An orthorectified image is similar to a map with near-vertical views for every location. These products are generated using ASTER Level-1A…
Aqua MODIS Combined MODIS Terra MODIS
(Author's Note 5/18/2020: MODIS Version 5 data have been decommissioned. Users are encouraged to visit the Data Catalog to see the latest version of MODIS data products.)
MODIS began processing Terra, Aqua, and Combined data acquisitions from January …
Aqua MODIS Combined MODIS Terra MODIS
MODIS Land Collection 5 Workshop
January 17-18, 2007
University of Maryland
University College Inn and Conference Center
This workshop provides an in-depth look at Collection 5 changes to MODIS Land products as well as the status of data production, the repro…
Aqua MODIS Combined MODIS Terra MODIS
(Author's Note 5/18/2020: MODIS Version 5 data have been decommissioned. Users are encouraged to visit the Data Catalog to see the latest version of MODIS data products.)
The LP DAAC announces certain MODIS V005 land data products will begin public re…
Beginning on November 15, 2006, the Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC) will no longer offer compact discs as a media option for MODIS data products. DVD and DLT media types will continue along with FTP as ordering options.
Please c…
Terra ASTER
LP DAAC has released a new suite of ASTER SWIR crosstalk-corrected products that are available for ordering. The following links provide product descriptions for these new releases. These are provided individually for each sensor. The distinguishing short…