MCD43D10 v006

• Observations are weighted to estimate the BRDF/Albedo on the ninth day of the 16-day period.
• MCD43 products use the snow status weighted to the ninth day instead of the majority snow/no-snow observations from the 16-day period.
• Better quality at high latitudes from use of all available observations for the acquisition period. Collection 5 used only four observations per day.
• The MCD43 products use L2G-lite surface reflectance as input.
• When there are insufficient high quality reflectances, a database with archetypal BRDF parameters is used to supplement the observational data and perform a lower quality magnitude inversion. This database is continually updated with the latest full inversion retrieval for each pixel.
• CMG Albedo is estimated using all the clear-sky observations within the 1,000 m grid for MCD43D as opposed to aggregating from the 500 m albedo.

The MODIS BRDF/Albedo products have achieved stage 3 validation.

The corresponding MCD43D31 data file provides product quality information.

For complete information about MCD43D10 known issues refer to the MODIS Land Quality Assessment website.