EASE-Grid 2.0 Land-Ocean-Coastline-Ice Masks Derived from Boston University MODIS/Terra Land Cover Data, Version 1

Description

These Land-Ocean-Coastline-Ice (LOCI) files provide land classification masks derived from the Boston University MOD12Q1 V004 MODIS/Terra 1 km Land Cover Product (Friedl et al. 2002). The masks are available in various EASE-Grid 2.0 azimuthal and global projections, at various spatial resolutions ranging from 3 km to 100 km. The masks are in flat binary, 1 byte files stored by row. Quick-look browse images of the masks are also available in PNG (.png) format.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 Direct download via HTTPS protocol. https://daacdata.apps.nsidc.org/pub/DATASETS/nsidc0609_loci_ease2/
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FVY2JQZL9J8AQ
21 Includes a user's guide, supplemental documents like ATBDs and academic papers, How Tos, FAQs, etc. https://doi.org/10.5067/VY2JQZL9J8AQ

Tags

  • land-use-land-cover
  • land-surface
  • national-geospatial-data-asset
  • ngda
  • earth-science

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