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Improved MODIS TERRA/AQUA composite Snow and glacier (RGI6.0) data for High Mountain Asia (2002-2018)

The data contains an enhanced MODIS 8-day Terra (MOD10A2) and Aqua (MYD10A2) collection 6 snow-cover composite product merged with Randolph Glacier Inventory (RGI6.0). The data is specifically developed for the High Mountain Asia (HMA) with the geographic coverage between latitude 24.32 − 49.19 N and Longitude 58.22 − 122.48 E. The data is available with eight-day temporal resolution and 500 m spatial resolution covering the period between 2002 and 2018. The name of the product is derived from MODIS Terra (MOD) MODIS Aqua (MYD), and Glacier (GL), Version 6 (06) as MOYDGL06*. The product is described in Julian day and each year has 46 eight-day composite images in GeoTIFF file format as described in the associated readme.TXT. The data can be accessed alternatively from https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.901821. The R code developed for this product is available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3610735. For more details about the data, please read the paper associated with this data titled lease read the paper associated with this data titled "An improved Terra/Aqua MODIS snow-cover and RGI6.0 glacier combined product (MOYDGL06*) for the High Mountain Asia between 2002 and 2018" published in Earth System Science Data Journal.

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Date ( Publication )
2019-01-13
Author
  ICIMOD - Sher Muhammad ( Remote Sensing Specialist )
Nepal
977-1-5275222
Purpose
The original MOD10A2* and MYD10A2* collection 6 products contain approximately 46% of underestimation and 3.66% of overestimation in comparison to this product. The availability of this improved product can be served as a valuable dataset for hydrological/glaciological modelling, cryosphere monitoring and associated changes.
Status
Completed
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
( Theme )
  • MODIS
  • Snow Cover
  • Cryosphere
Keywords ( Place )
  • HMA
  • HKH
Use limitation
Free to use, Suggested citation: (1) Muhammad, Sher; Thapa, Amrit (2019): Improved MODIS TERRA/AQUA composite Snow and glacier (RGI6.0) data for High Mountain Asia (2002-2018). PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.901821. & (2) Muhammad, Sher; Thapa, Amrit (2020): An improved Terra/Aqua MODIS snow-cover and RGI6.0 glacier combined product (MOYDGL06*) for the High Mountain Asia between 2002 and 2018, Earth System Science Data.
Access constraints
Copyright
Use constraints
Copyright
Spatial representation type
Grid
Metadata language
eng
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
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Reference system identifier
WGS 1984
Distributor
  ICIMOD -
OnLine resource
PANGAEA ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

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OnLine resource
readme.txt ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Readme

Hierarchy level
Dataset
File identifier
757606cc-80a0-45ac-8f5f-ca7c2efb7c9a XML
Metadata language
eng
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2021-04-01T14:15:43
Metadata standard name
North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003
Author
  ICIMOD - Sher Muhammad ( Remote Sensing Specialist )
 
 

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Keywords

Cryosphere MODIS Snow Cover

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