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ORNL DAAC MODIS Tool Update

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The ORNL DAAC discontinued the distribution of Collection 4 MODIS Land Product Subsets on January 31, 2009, as part of the MODIS Land Team's switch from Collection 4 to Collection 5. The Collection 5 products and subsets, created using improved algorithms, have been available since September 2006.

The ORNL DAAC will continue to offer Collection 5 MODIS Land Product Subsets in a variety of ways including:

The ORNL DAAC is also pleased to announce the following updates to our MODIS Global Tool:

  • Availability of 500-m Collection 5 MODIS land cover product (MCD12Q1)
  • Stackable time series visualization for inter-annual comparison

For more information about ORNL DAAC MODIS products see: http://daac.ornl.gov/MODIS/modis.html

The ORNL DAAC http://daac.ornl.gov is a NASA-funded center archiving and distributing terrestrial ecology and biogeochemical dynamics data.