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MCD43A2 V6.0.0 daily L3
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MODIS HDF File Specification
Version: V6.1.0
Date: Sep-2019
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A note on MCD43 BRDF/Albedo HDF file designators:
ProductIDs Status Description Process
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MCD43A1 archived BRDF/Albedo Model Parameters 0.5km MOD_PR43B
MCD43A2 archived BRDF/Albedo Quality 0.5 km MOD_PR43B
MCD43A3 archived Albedo 0.5 km MOD_PR43B
MCD43A4 archived Nadir BRDF-adj. reflect. NBAR 0.5km MOD_PR43B
MCD43C1 archived CMG BRDF/Albedo Model Parameters 0.05degree MOD_PR43C1
MCD43C2 archived CMG BRDF/Albedo Snow-free Parmameters 0.05degree MOD_PR43C1
MCD43C3 archived CMG Albedo 0.05degree MOD_PR43C3
MCD43C4 archived CMG Nadir BRDF-adj. reflect. NBAR 0.05degree MOD_PR43C3
MCD43D01-30 archived BRDF/Albedo Model Parameters 30arc sec MOD_PR43C1
MCD43D31 archived BRDF/Albedo Quality 30arc sec MOD_PR43C1
MCD43D32 archived Local Solar Noon 30arc sec MOD_PR43C1
MCD43D33 archived BRDF/Albedo ValidObs Band1 30arc sec MOD_PR43C1
MCD43D34 archived BRDF/Albedo ValidObs Band2 30arc sec MOD_PR43C1
MCD43D35 archived BRDF/Albedo ValidObs Band3 30arc sec MOD_PR43C1
MCD43D36 archived BRDF/Albedo ValidObs Band4 30arc sec MOD_PR43C1
MCD43D37 archived BRDF/Albedo ValidObs Band5 30arc sec MOD_PR43C1
MCD43D38 archived BRDF/Albedo ValidObs Band6 30arc sec MOD_PR43C1
MCD43D39 archived BRDF/Albedo ValidObs Band7 30arc sec MOD_PR43C1
MCD43D40 archived BRDF/Albedo Snow status 30arc sec MOD_PR43C1
MCD43D41 archived BRDF/Albedo Uncertainty 30arc sec MOD_PR43C1
MCD43D42 archived BRDF/Albedo BSA Band1 30arc sec MOD_PR43C1
MCD43D43 archived BRDF/Albedo BSA Band2 30arc sec MOD_PR43C1
MCD43D44 archived BRDF/Albedo BSA Band3 30arc sec MOD_PR43C1
MCD43D45 archived BRDF/Albedo BSA Band4 30arc sec MOD_PR43C1
MCD43D46 archived BRDF/Albedo BSA Band5 30arc sec MOD_PR43C1
MCD43D47 archived BRDF/Albedo BSA Band6 30arc sec MOD_PR43C1
MCD43D48 archived BRDF/Albedo BSA Band7 30arc sec MOD_PR43C1
MCD43D49 archived BRDF/Albedo BSA VIS 30arc sec MOD_PR43C1
MCD43D50 archived BRDF/Albedo BSA NIR 30arc sec MOD_PR43C1
MCD43D51 archived BRDF/Albedo BSA Shortwave 30arc sec MOD_PR43C1
MCD43D52 archived BRDF/Albedo WSA Band1 30arc sec MOD_PR43C1
MCD43D53 archived BRDF/Albedo WSA Band2 30arc sec MOD_PR43C1
MCD43D54 archived BRDF/Albedo WSA Band3 30arc sec MOD_PR43C1
MCD43D55 archived BRDF/Albedo WSA Band4 30arc sec MOD_PR43C1
MCD43D56 archived BRDF/Albedo WSA Band5 30arc sec MOD_PR43C1
MCD43D57 archived BRDF/Albedo WSA Band6 30arc sec MOD_PR43C1
MCD43D58 archived BRDF/Albedo WSA Band7 30arc sec MOD_PR43C1
MCD43D59 archived BRDF/Albedo WSA VIS 30arc sec MOD_PR43C1
MCD43D60 archived BRDF/Albedo WSA NIR 30arc sec MOD_PR43C1
MCD43D61 archived BRDF/Albedo WSA Shortwave 30arc sec MOD_PR43C1
MCD43D62 archived BRDF/Albedo NBAR Band1 30arc sec MOD_PR43C1
MCD43D63 archived BRDF/Albedo NBAR Band2 30arc sec MOD_PR43C1
MCD43D64 archived BRDF/Albedo NBAR Band3 30arc sec MOD_PR43C1
MCD43D65 archived BRDF/Albedo NBAR Band4 30arc sec MOD_PR43C1
MCD43D66 archived BRDF/Albedo NBAR Band5 30arc sec MOD_PR43C1
MCD43D67 archived BRDF/Albedo NBAR Band6 30arc sec MOD_PR43C1
MCD43D68 archived BRDF/Albedo NBAR Band7 30arc sec MOD_PR43C1
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Product Identifier: MCD43A2
Description: Daily BRDF/Albedo Quality Product 500m Global SIN Grid
Contents:
CoreMetadata.0
This string will contain the following PVL fields:
Field Name Data no. of Value
Type values
GROUP = INVENTORYMETADATA
GROUP = CollectionDescriptionClass
SHORTNAME STRING 1 "MCD43A2"
VERSIONID INTEGER 1 Variable
END_GROUP = CollectionDescriptionClass
GROUP = ECSDataGranule
LOCALGRANULEID STRING 1 Variable
SIZEMBECSDATAGRANULE DOUBLE 1 Variable
PRODUCTIONDATETIME STRING 1 Variable
DAYNIGHTFLAG STRING 1 Variable
REPROCESSINGACTUAL STRING 1 "processed once"
REPROCESSINGPLANNED STRING 1 "further update is anticipated"
LOCALVERSIONID STRING 1 Variable
END_GROUP = ECSDataGranule
GROUP = PGEVersionClass
PGEVERSION STRING 1 "2" or Variable
END_GROUP = PGEVersionClass
GROUP = InputGranule
InputPointer STRING FR Variable
END_GROUP = InputGranule
GROUP = RangeDateTime
RANGEBEGINNINGDATE STRING 1 Variable
RANGEENDINGDATE STRING 1 Variable
RANGEBEGINNINGTIME STRING 1 Variable
RANGEENDINGTIME STRING 1 Variable
END_GROUP = RangeDateTime
GROUP = GRingPoint
EXCLUSIONGRINGFLAG STRING 1 Variable
GRINGPOINTLATITUDE DOUBLE 4 Variable
GRINGPOINTLONGITUDE DOUBLE 4 Variable
GRINGPOINTSEQUENCENO INTEGER 4 Variable
END_GROUP = GRingPoint
GROUP = MeasuredParameter
PARAMETERNAME STRING 1 Variable
(A)
GROUP = QAFlags
AUTOMATICQUALITYFLAG STRING 1 "Pass"
AUTOMATICQUALITYFLAGEXPLANATION STRING 1 "No automatic quality assessment is performed in the PGE"
OPERATIONALQUALITYFLAG STRING 1 Variable
OPERATIONALQUALITYFLAGEXPLANATION STRING 1 Variable
SCIENCEQUALITYFLAG STRING 1 Variable
SCIENCEQUALITYFLAGEXPLANATION STRING 1 "http://landweb.nascom.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/QA_WWW/qaFlagPage.cgi?sat=aquaTerra"
END_GROUP = QAFlags
GROUP = QAStats
QAPERCENTINTERPOLATEDDATA INTEGER 1 Variable
QAPERCENTMISSINGDATA INTEGER 1 Variable
QAPERCENTOUTOFBOUNDSDATA INTEGER 1 Variable
END_GROUP = QAStats
END_GROUP = MeasuredParameter
GROUP = AdditionalAttributes
AdditionalAttributeName STRING 17
ADDITIONALATTRIBUTENAME.1 = "QAPERCENTGOODQUALITY"
ADDITIONALATTRIBUTENAME.2 = "QAPERCENTOTHERQUALITY"
ADDITIONALATTRIBUTENAME.3 = "QAPERCENTNOTPRODUCEDCLOUD"
ADDITIONALATTRIBUTENAME.4 = "QAPERCENTNOTPRODUCEDOTHER"
ADDITIONALATTRIBUTENAME.5 = "HORIZONTALTILENUMBER"
ADDITIONALATTRIBUTENAME.6 = "VERTICALTILENUMBER"
ADDITIONALATTRIBUTENAME.7 = "TileID"
ADDITIONALATTRIBUTENAME.8 = "BRDFCODEID"
ADDITIONALATTRIBUTENAME.9 = "SETUPFILEID"
ADDITIONALATTRIBUTENAME.10 = "ALBEDOFILEID"
ADDITIONALATTRIBUTENAME.11 = "BRDFDATABASEVERSION"
ADDITIONALATTRIBUTENAME.12 = "PERCENTLANDINTILE"
ADDITIONALATTRIBUTENAME.13 = "PERCENTPROCESSEDINTILE"
ADDITIONALATTRIBUTENAME.14 = "PERCENTNEWBRDF"
ADDITIONALATTRIBUTENAME.15 = "PERCENTSHAPEFIXEDBRDFS"
ADDITIONALATTRIBUTENAME.16 = "PERCENTSUBSTITUTEBRDFS"
ADDITIONALATTRIBUTENAME.17 = "AVERAGENUMBEROBS"
ParameterValue STRING 17 Variable
END_GROUP = AdditionalAttributes
GROUP = AssociatedPlatformInstrumentSensor
AssociatedPlatformShortName.1 STRING "Terra"
AssociatedInstrumentShortName.1 STRING "MODIS"
AssociatedSensorName.1 STRING "MODIS"
AssociatedPlatformShortName.2 STRING "Aqua"
AssociatedInstrumentShortName.2 STRING "MODIS"
AssociatedSensorName.2 STRING "MODIS"
END_GROUP = AssociatedPlatformInstrumentSensor
END_GROUP = INVENTORYMETADATA
ArchiveMetadata.0
This string will contain the following PVL fields:
Field Name Data no. of Value
Type values
GROUP = ARCHIVEMETADATA
GROUP = BoundingRectangle
WESTBOUNDINGCOORDINATE DOUBLE 1 Variable
NORTHBOUNDINGCOORDINATE DOUBLE 1 Variable
EASTBOUNDINGCOORDINATE DOUBLE 1 Variable
SOUTHBOUNDINGCOORDINATE DOUBLE 1 Variable
END_GROUP = BoundingRectangle
ALGORITHMPACKAGEACCEPTANCEDATE STRING 1 "mmyyyy"
ALGORITHMPACKAGEMATURITYCODE STRING 1 "Normal"
ALGORITHMPACKAGENAME STRING 1 "MCDPR_43A"
ALGORITHMPACKAGEVERSION STRING 1 "5"
GEOANYABNORMAL STRING 1 Variable
GEOESTMAXRMSERROR DOUBLE 1 Variable
LONGNAME STRING 1 Variable
SPSOPARAMETERS STRING 2 "3669, 4332"
PROCESSINGCENTER STRING 1 "MODAPS"
CHARACTERISTICBINANGULARSIZE DOUBLE 1 Variable
CHARACTERISTICBINSIZE DOUBLE 1 Variable
DATACOLUMNS INTEGER 1 Variable
DATAROWS INTEGER 1 Variable
GLOBALGRIDCOLUMNS INTEGER 1 Variable
GLOBALGRIDROWS INTEGER 1 Variable
MAXIMUMOBSERVATIONS INTEGER 1 Variable
NUMBEROFGRANULES INTEGER 1 Variable
COVERAGECALCULATIONMETHOD STRING 1 Variable
NADIRDATARESOLUTION STRING 1 Variable
PROCESSINGENVIRONMENT STRING 1 "Linux or SGI"
DAYSPROCESSED STRING 1 "yyyyddd"
END_GROUP = ARCHIVEMETADATA
StructuralMetadata.0
This string will be populated automatically by HDF-EOS.
Grid Structure: MODIS_Grid_BRDF
Dimension Dimension Name Value
Dimension_0 Ydim:MODIS_Grid_BRDF Variable
Dimension_1 Xdim:MODIS_Grid_BRDF Variable
Dimension_2 Num_Land_Bands_Plus3:MODIS_Grid_BRDF Variable
Dimension_3 Num_Parameters:MODIS_Grid_BRDF Variable
Dimension_4 Num_Shape_Fields:MODIS_Grid_BRDF Variable
Corner Locations:
Corner Values
UpperLeftPointMtrs (Variable, Variable)
LowerRightPointMtrs (Variable, Variable)
Geographic Grid Projection Parameters -- Note that all grid
parameters are currently under development and may need to
be revised prior to V2.0 code delivery.
Supported Grids: Geographic Grid
Sinusoidal
Interrupted Goodes Homolosine
Projection gridID = GCTP_GEO
ProjParam[0] not used
ProjParam[1] not used
ProjParam[2] not used
ProjParam[3] not used
ProjParam[4] not used
ProjParam[5] not used
ProjParam[6] not used
ProjParam[7] not used
ProjParam[8] not used
ProjParam[9] not used
ProjParam[10] not used
ProjParam[11] not used
ProjParam[12] not used
Spherecode not used
GridOrigin HDFE_GD_UL
Projection gridID = GCTP_ISINUS
ProjParam[0] 6371007.181
ProjParam[1] TBD
ProjParam[2] 0.0
ProjParam[3] 0.0
ProjParam[4] 0.0
ProjParam[5] 0.0
ProjParam[6] 0.0
ProjParam[7] 0.0
ProjParam[8] 86400
ProjParam[9] 0.0
ProjParam[10] 1.0
ProjParam[11] 0.0
ProjParam[12] 0.0
Spherecode -1
GridOrigin HDFE_GD_UL
Projection gridID GCTP_GOOD
ProjParam[0] not used
ProjParam[1] not used
ProjParam[2] not used
ProjParam[3] not used
ProjParam[4] not used
ProjParam[5] not used
ProjParam[6] not used
ProjParam[7] not used
ProjParam[8] not used
ProjParam[9] not used
ProjParam[10] not used
ProjParam[11] not used
ProjParam[12] not used
Spherecode 19
GridOrigin HDFE_GD_UL
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Description of Data Fields
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DataField_1
Data Field Name: UINT8 SNOW_BRDF_Albedo("YDim","XDim")
Description: Snow-free or snow BRDF/Albedo retrieved
Mandatory QA 0 = Snow-free Albedo Retrieved
1 = Snow Albedo Retrieved
255 = Fill Value
Data Field Attributes:
Name: Type: Num_Val: Source: Value:
long_name HDF-STRING 1 Code "Snow_BRDF_Albedo"
units HDF-STRING 1 Code "concatenated flags"
valid_range HDF-uint8 2 Code 0, 254
_FillValue HDF-uint8 1 Code 255
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DataField_2
Data Field Name: UINT8 BRDF_Albedo_Platform ("YDim","XDim")
Description: BRDF Albedo Platform information
0 = Terra
1 = Terra/Aqua
2 = Aqua
Data Field Attributes:
Name: Type: Num_Val: Source: Value:
long_name HDF-STRING 1 Code "BRDF_Albedo_Platform"
units HDF-STRING 1 Code "concatenated flags"
valid_range HDF-uint8 2 Code 0, 254
_FillValue HDF-uint8 1 Code 255
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DataField_3
Data Field Name: UINT8 BRDF_Albedo_LandWaterType ("YDim","XDim")
Description: Land Water Type
0 = Shallow ocean
1 = Land (Nothing else but land)
2 = Ocean coastlines and lake shorelines
3 = Shallow inland water
4 = Ephemeral water
5 = Deep inland water
6 = Moderate or continental ocean
7 = Deep ocean
Data Field Attributes:
Name: Type: Num_Val: Source: Value:
long_name HDF-STRING 1 Code "BRDF_Albedo_LandWaterType"
units HDF-STRING 1 Code "concatenated flags"
valid_range HDF-uint8 2 Code 0, 254
_FillValue HDF-uint8 1 Code 255
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DataField_4
Data Field Name: UINT8 BRDF_Albedo_LocalSolarNoon ("YDim","XDim")
Description: Solar Zenith Angle of Local Solar Noon
Data Field Attributes:
Name: Type: Num_Val: Source: Value:
long_name HDF-STRING 1 Code "BRDF_Albedo_LocalSolarNoon"
units HDF-STRING 1 Code “Degree”
valid_range HDF-uint8 2 Code 0, 90
_FillValue HDF-uint8 1 Code 255
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DataField_5
Data Field Name: UINT16 BRDF_Albedo_ValidObs_Band1 ("YDim","XDim")
Description: Valid Observation for Band1
Bit field legend; HDF-uint16,
bit Long name Key
0 = day 1 reflectance quality; 0 observation not used, 1 valid clear observation
1 = day 2 reflectance quality; 0 observation not used, 1 valid clear observation
.
.
.
15 = day 16 reflectance quality; 0 observation not used, 1 valid clear observation
Data Field Attributes:
Name: Type: Num_Val: Source: Value:
long_name HDF-STRING 1 Code "BRDF_Albedo_ValidObs_Band1"
units HDF-STRING 1 Code "concatenated flags"
valid_range HDF-uint16 2 Code 1, 65535
_FillValue HDF-uint16 1 Code 0
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Data_Field_6 .... Data_Field_11 BRDF Albedo ValidObs for MODIS Bands 2-7
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DataField_12
Data Field Name: UINT8 BRDF_Albedo_Band_Quality_Band1 ("YDim","XDim")
Description: BRDF Inversion Information
0 = best quality, full inversion (WoDs, RMSE majority good)
1 = good quality, full inversion (also including the cases that no clear sky observations over the day of interest or the Solar Zenith Angle is too large even WoDs, RMSE majority good)
2 = Magnitude inversion (numobs >=7)
3 = Magnitude inversion (numobs >=2&<7)
4 = Fill value
Data Field Attributes:
Name: Type: Num_Val: Source: Value:
long_name HDF-STRING 1 Code "BRDF_Albedo_Band_Quality_Band1"
units HDF-STRING 1 Code "concatenated flags"
valid_range HDF-uint8 2 Code 0, 254
_FillValue HDF-uint8 1 Code 255
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Data_Field_13 .... Data_Field_18 BRDF_Albedo_Band_Quality for MODIS Bands 2-7
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DataField_19
Data Field Name: UINT16 BRDF_Albedo_Uncertainty ("YDim","XDim")
Description: BRDF Inversion Information
Data conversions:
file data=( BRDF_Albedo_Uncertainty / scale_factor) + add_offset
BRDF_Albedo_Uncertainty=( file data - add_offset ) * scale_factor
Data Field Attributes:
Name: Type: Num_Val: Source: Value:
long_name HDF-STRING 1 Code "BRDF_Albedo_Uncertainty"
units HDF-STRING 1 Code "concatenated flags"
valid_range HDF-uint16 2 Code 0, 32766
_FillValue HDF-uint16 1 Code 32767
scale_factor HDF-float64 1 Code 0.001
add_offset HDF-float64 1 Code 0.0