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MODIS/Terra Calibrated Radiances 5-Min L1B Swath 250m V7

Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR and NASA Data Portal — shown once because both records carry DOI 10.5067/modis/mod02qkm.007

The Terra MODIS (Moderate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) Level-1B (L1B) product includes calibrated and geolocated at-aperture radiances for 36 bands generated from MODIS Level-1A raw sensor counts.

Description

The radiances are provided in watts/m2/micrometer/steradian. The Terra MODIS L1B product is a set three datasets (MOD02QKM, MOD02HKM, and MOD021KM) that are produced to address the three spatial-resolution variations: 250 m, 500 m, and 1000 m.

This landing page describes the quarter-kilometer product with a short-name MOD02QKM. It provides calibrated radiances derived from the 250-m at-nadir visible band-1 and near-infrared band-2 that have central wavelengths at 0.645 µm and 0.858 µm, respectively. Each 250-m band has 40 detectors in the along-track direction.

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The MOD02QKM product contains the following two Science Data Sets (SDS) besides geolocation fields for latitude and longitude, quality flags, error estimates, etc. <html> <body> <table> <tr> <th>SDS Variable</th> <th>Long-name</th> </tr> <tr> <td>EV_250_RefSB</td> <td>Earth View 250M Reflective Solar Bands Scaled Integers</td> </tr> <tr> <td>EV_250_RefSB_Uncert_Indexes</td> <td>Earth View 250M Reflective Solar Bands Uncertainty Indexes</td> </tr> </table> </body> </html> <br> The v7.0 Terra MODIS MOD02QKM in netCDF4 format represents the most current version of this product that has undergone around half-a-dozen reprocessing cycles in the last 2.5 decades.

Each 250-m swath granule or data-file temporally spans 5 minutes and its image dimensions measure 8,120 lines (along-track direction) by 5,416 samples (cross-track direction). The v7.0 collection’s data record starts from February 24, 2000 (2000–055). Consult the MODIS L1B User Guide to understand how to convert the per-pixel scaled integers to radiance or reflectance.

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