19 List of Acronyms 20 Document Information 1. This sample record represents the layout for all three data sets. The longitude position represents the suborbital point perpendicular to the surface of the earth specified by a state vector originating from the center of the earth to a spacecraft in low earth orbit. Coordinate of 5x5 box lower left corner. The latitude position represents the suborbital point perpendicular to the surface of the earth specified by a state vector originating from the center of the earth to a spacecraft in low earth orbit.
Most granules consists of one day of data.
There are a few granules that contain a few days of data. There is a browse product available for each granule in these data sets. The Langley DAAC performs an inspection process on this data received by the data producer via ftp . The DAAC checks to see if the transfer of the data completed and were delivered in their entirety. An inspection software was developed by the DAAC to see if the code was able to read every granule.