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The MODIS/Aqua Near Real Time (NRT) Snow Cover 5-Min L2 Swath 500m (MYD10_L2) data set contains snow cover and Quality Assessment (QA) data, latitudes and longitudes in compressed Hierarchical Data Format-Earth Observing System (HDF-EOS) format, and corresponding metadata. Latitude and longitude geolocation fields are at 5 km resolution while all other fields are at 500 m resolution. Version 5 (V005), the latest version of the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data available has two separate snow fields. The first field, snow cover, classifies each cloud-free land or inland water body pixel as snow-covered or snow-free, the second field, fractional snow cover, provides the percent of snow cover within each pixel for land and inland water bodies. MODIS snow cover data are based on a snow mapping algorithm that employs a Normalized Difference Snow Index (NDSI) and other criteria tests. Data are stored in HDF-EOS format, and are available from 4 July 2002 to present. Data can also be obtained in GeoTIFF format by ordering the data through the Data Pool.

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Format	Description	Link
5		https://earthdata.nasa.gov%2Fearth-observation-data%2Fnear-real-time%2Fdownload-nrt-data%2Fmodis-nrt
5		http://lance3.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov%2Fdata_products%2F
5		https://nrt3.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov%2Farchive%2FallData%2F6%2FMYD10_L2%2F
5		https://earthdata.nasa.gov/earth-observation-data/near-real-time/download-nrt-data/modis-nrt
5		http://lance3.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/data_products/
5		https://nrt3.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/archive/allData/6/MYD10_L2/
0	The metadata's original source.	https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C1229626387-LANCEMODIS.iso19115

MODIS/Aqua Near Real Time (NRT) Snow Cover 5-Min L2 Swath 500m, Version 006

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