MODIS/Aqua Snow Cover 5-Min L2 Swath 500m NRT

Description

The MODIS/Aqua Snow Cover 5-Min L2 Swath 500m Near Real Time (NRT), short name 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. There are two separate snow fields in this data set. 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.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FMODIS%2FMYD10_L2.NRT.061
21 Direct access to the download site and directory hosting the MYD10_L2 6.1NRT data set. https://nrt3.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/archive/allData/61/MYD10_L2/
21 NASA LANCE Near Real Time data set descriptions and access links. https://earthdata.nasa.gov/earth-observation-data/near-real-time/download-nrt-data/modis-nrt
21 Access Collection 6.1 descriptions and data sets from the MODAPS LANCE-MODIS page. http://lance3.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/data_products/

Tags

  • snow-ice
  • national-geospatial-data-asset
  • cryosphere
  • terrestrial-hydrosphere
  • ngda
  • earth-science

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