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MCD43A2 - MODIS/Terra+Aqua BRDF/Albedo Quality Daily L3 Global - 500m
These data are a copy of MODIS data from the NASA Level-1 and Atmosphere Archive & Distribution System (LAADS) Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC). The copy is potentially only a subset. Below is the description from https://ladsweb.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/missions-and-measurements/products/MCD43A2
The MODerate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) BRDF/Albedo Quality product (MCD43A2) describes the overall condition of the other BRDF and Albedo products. The MCD43A2 product contains 16 days of data at 500 meter spatial resolution provided in a level-3 gridded data set in Sinusoidal projection, and includes albedo quality assurance, snow conditions, ancillary information, and inversion information.
Both Terra and Aqua data are used in the generation of this product, providing the highest probability for quality assurance input data. It is designated with a shortname beginning with MCD, which is used to refer to 'combined' products, those comprised of data using both Terra and Aqua.
Note that the V006 MODIS MCD43 products are retrieved daily and represent the best BRDF possible based on 16 days worth of inputs with the day of interest emphasized. Unlike the earlier reprocessed versions (where the date of the product signifies the first day of the retrieval period), and the Direct Broadcast version (where the date signifies the last day of the retrieval period), the date associated with each daily V006 retrieval is the center of the moving 16 day input window. This change is in response to user requests.
Version-5 MODIS BRDF & Albedo products have attained Validation Stage 3.
Shortname: MCD43A2 , Platform: Combined Aqua Terra , Instrument: MODIS , Processing Level: Level-3 , Spatial Resolution: 500 m , Temporal Resolution: daily , ArchiveSets: 6, 61 , Collection: MODIS Collection 6 (ArchiveSet 6) , PGE Number: PGE23 , File Naming Convention: MCD43A2.AYYYYDDD.hHHvVV.CCC.YYYYDDDHHMMSS.hdf YYYYDDD = Year and Day of Year of acquisition hHH = Horizontal tile number (0-35) vVV = Vertical tile number (0-17) CCC = Collection number YYYYDDDHHMMSS = Production Date and Time , Citation: Crystal Schaaf - University of Massachusetts Boston, Zhuosen Wang - NASA GSFC and MODAPS SIPS - NASA. (2015). MCD43A2C MODIS/Terra+Aqua BRDF/Albedo Quality Daily L3 Global - 500m. NASA LP DAAC. http://doi.org/10.5067/MODIS/MCD43A2C.006 , Keywords: Climate Change, Albedo, Reflectance
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- Date (Publication)
- 2021-04-15T14:04:56
- Date (Creation)
- 2021-04-15T14:04:56
- Citation identifier
- https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/cf8e3e801a114979a160e809deb5cc9f
- Citation identifier
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) / cf8e3e801a114979a160e809deb5cc9f
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
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Author NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis
Custodian NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis
Distributor National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
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Principal investigator National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
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Principal investigator NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis
pointofContact National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
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- As needed
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Climate Change
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Albedo
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Reflectance
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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orthoimagery
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- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
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- Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
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- Other restrictions
- Spatial representation type
- Grid
- Language
- English
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- Imagery base maps earth cover
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- Begin date
- 2000-02-23T23:55:00
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84
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Name Version HDF
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis
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Protocol Linkage Name https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/cf8e3e801a114979a160e809deb5cc9f CEDA Data Catalogue Page
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Protocol Linkage Name http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/modis/data/MCD43A2 DOWNLOAD
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Protocol Linkage Name https://ladsweb.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/search/order/2/MCD43A2--6 LAADS DAAC - Search for Product Files
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Protocol Linkage Name https://ladsweb.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/archive/allData/6/MCD43A2/ LAADS DAAC - Data Archive
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Protocol Linkage Name http://landval.gsfc.nasa.gov/ProductStatus.php?ProductID=MOD43 MODIS BRDF/Albedo (MCD43) validation status
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Protocol Linkage Name http://www.umb.edu/spectralmass/terra_aqua_modis/v006 MODIS User Guide V006
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Protocol Linkage Name https://ladsweb.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/filespec/MODIS/6/MCD43A2 LAADS DAAC - Collection 6 File Specification
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Protocol Linkage Name http://dx.doi.org/10.5067/MODIS/MCD43A2.006 Dataset DOI
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Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
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Data were downloaded from https://ladsweb.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/archive/allData/ to support UK research groups, especially NCEO.
Metadata
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- cf8e3e801a114979a160e809deb5cc9f XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
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- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-12-09T03:22:57
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
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2.3
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis
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