National Snow & Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center

nasa-nsidcdaac-mod10a1

MODIS/Terra Snow Cover Daily L3 Global 500m Grid

The MODIS/Terra Snow Cover Daily L3 Global 500m Grid (MOD10A1) contains snow cover, snow albedo, fractional snow cover, and Quality Assessment (QA) data in compressed Hierarchical Data Format-Earth Observing System (HDF-EOS) format along with corresponding metadata. MOD10A1 consists of 1200 km by 1200 km tiles of 500 m resolution data gridded in a sinusoidal map projection. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) snow cover data are based on a snow mapping algorithm that employs a Normalized Difference Snow Index (NDSI) and other criteria tests.

http://nsidc.org/data/MOD10A1

Identified by : MOD10A1

This dataset was released on December 18, 2006.

The time range for this dataset starts at February 24, 2000.

The spatial range for this dataset is -90° to 90° latitude, and -180° to 180° longitude. map (center)

This dataset uses data from an instance of the moderate-resolution-imaging-spectroradiometer instrument on the terra platform.
DOI : 10.5067/63NQASRDPDB0
Also known as :

• dataset oai:nsidc/MOD10A1 (nsidc lexicon)