DOI: 10.25592/uhhfdm.14462
title: MODIS Collection 6.1 Sinusoidal Tiles 8-daily gap-filled Gross Primary Production

description: <strong>Abstract:</strong> MODIS Collection 6.1 8-day gap-filled Gross Primary Production (GPP) and Net Photosynthesis data on the MODIS sinusoidal grid provided by LPDAAC: https://doi.org/10.5067/MODIS/MOD17A2HGF.061 (last accessed: 2024-05-07) are read together with their bit-encoded quality information from the HDF-files. The quality information is decoded and provided in form of separate flag layers in addition to the GPP and Net Photosynthesis data for each tile of the MODIS sinusoidal grid in netCDF file format (see https://www.cen.uni-hamburg.de/en/icdc/data/land/modis-primaryproduction.html). For each tile, latitude and longitude information of the center of each 500 m x 500 m pixel is provided in a separate netCDF file.

<strong>TableOfContents:</strong> gross_primary_production (gpp); net_photosynthesis; gpp_quality_flag; gpp_confidence_flag

<strong>Technical Info:</strong> dimension: 2400 columns x 2400 rows x unlimited; temporalExtent_startDate: 2000-02-18; temporalExtent_endDate: 2023-12-31; temporalResolution: 8-daily; spatialResolution: 500; spatialResolutionUnit: meter; horizontalResolutionXdirection: 500; horizontalResolutionXdirectionUnit: meter; horizontalResolutionYdirection: 500; horizontalResolutionYdirectionUnit: meter; verticalResolution: none; verticalResolutionUnit: none; verticalStart: none; verticalEnd: none; instrumentName: MODerate Resolution Spectroradiometer (MODIS); instrumentType: visible_to_infrared_spectroradiometer; instrumentLocation: Earth Observation Satellite (EOS) Terra; instrumentProvider: NOAA/NASA 

<strong>Methods:</strong> [1] Running, S. W., and M. Zhao, Users Guide Daily GPP and Annual NPP (MOD17A2H/A3H) and Year-end Gap-Filled (MOD17A2HGF/A3HGF) Products NASA Earth Observing System MODIS Land Algorithm, (For Collection 6), Version 4.0, January 2, 2019; [2] Running, S. W., R. R. Nemani, F. A. Heinsch, M. Zhao, M. Reeves, and H. Hashimoto, A continuous satellite-derived measure of global terrestrial primary production. Bioscience, 54(6), 547-560, 2004; [3] Running, S. W., A measurable planetary boundary layer for the biosphere. Science, 337(6101), 1458-1459, 2012; [4] Zhao, M., F. A. Heinsch, R. R. Nemani, and S. W. Running, Improvements of the MODIS terrestrial gross and net primary production global data set. Remote Sensing of Environment, 95(2), 164-176, 2005

<strong>Units:</strong> kg C m-2; kg C m-2;1; 1

<strong>geoLocations:</strong> westBoundLongitude: depends on tile; eastBoundLongitude: depends on tile; southBoundLatitude: depends on tile; northBoundLatitude: depends on tile; geoLocationPlace: global on land, see: https://modis-land.gsfc.nasa.gov/MODLAND_grid.html

<strong>Size: </strong>(files are packed into one zip-archive per year)


 2000-2021 and 2023: each zip file is about 47.5 Gbyte large; each single file approximately 34.5 Mbytes, for the number of tiles see https://modis-land.gsfc.nasa.gov/MODLAND_grid.html
 Data of the year 2022 are not published because data provided by LPDAAC seemed to be not reliable


<strong>Format:</strong> netCDF

<strong>DataSources:</strong>

Original data on sinusoidal grid tiles in hdf-format: https://doi.org/10.5067/MODIS/MOD17A2HGF.061 (last accessed: 2024-05-07), see also https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/products/mod17a2hgfv061/ (last accessed: 2024-05-07)

<strong>Contact:</strong> stefan.kern (at) uni-hamburg.de

<strong>Web page:</strong> https://www.cen.uni-hamburg.de/en/icdc/data/land/modis-primaryproduction.html (last accessed: 2024-05-10)