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Title
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS): Land Remote Sensing for Global Change Research
Document Type
Article
Publication Title
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Publication Date
7-1998
Volume
36
Issue
4
First Page
1228
Last Page
1249
Abstract
The first Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument is planned for launch by NASA in 1998. This instrument will provide a new and improved capability for terrestrial satellite remote sensing aimed at meeting the needs of global change research. The MODIS standard products will provide new and improved tools for moderate resolution land surface monitoring. These higher order data products have been designed to remove the burden of certain common types of data processing from the user community and meet the more general needs of global-to-regional monitoring, modeling, and assessment. The near-daily coverage of moderate resolution data from MODIS, coupled with the planned increase in high-resolution sampling from Landsat 7, will provide a powerful combination of observations. The full potential of MODIS will be realized once a stable and well-calibrated time-series of multispectral data has been established. In this paper the proposed MODIS standard products for land applications are described along with the current plans for data quality assessment and product validation.
Keywords
Earth Observing System-Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (EOS-MODIS), global change, mon itoring, satellite remote sensing
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/36.701075
Rights
© 1998 IEEE
Recommended Citation
Justice, C. O., Vermote, E., Townshend, J. R. G., Defries, R., Roy, D. P., Hall, D. K., ... Barnsley, M. J. (1998). The moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS): Land remote sensing for global change research. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 36(4), 1228-1249. DOI: 10.1109/36.701075