Black Sky Albedo in the Visible range (300 - 700 nm) is represented in this false-color image produced with data acquired between January 17 and February 1, 2007 over the Adriatic Sea, including Italy, Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, and Albania (h19v04). High albedos are noted as expected over snow covered pixels, whose presence is confirmed in the BRDF/Albedo Quality product (MCD43B2). Black color shows areas with persistent cloud cover or water bodies.
The MODerate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Albedo product (MCD43B3) provides 1-kilometer data describing both directional hemispherical reflectance (black-sky albedo) at local solar noon and bihemispherical reflectance (white-sky albedo). These MCD43B3 albedo quantities are produced from the16-day anisotropy models provided in MCD43B1 and represent averages of the underlying 500m values. If black-sky albedos at different solar zenith angles are required then the MCD43B1 values should be used directly to generate them. The MCD43B3 albedo quantities are provided as a level-3 gridded product in the Sinusoidal projection.
Both Terra and Aqua data are used in the generation of this product, providing the highest probability for quality input data and designating it as an "MCD," meaning "Combined," product.
Version-5 MODIS/Terra+Aqua BRDF/Albedo products are Validated Stage 1, meaning that accuracy has been estimated using a small number of independent measurements obtained from selected locations and time periods and ground-truth/field program efforts. Although there may be later improved versions, these data are ready for use in scientific publications.
Temporal Coverage | February 24, 2000 - |
Area | ~10 x 10 lat/long |
File Size | ~9 MB |
Projection | Sinusoidal |
Data Format | HDF-EOS |
Demensions | 1200 x 1200 rows/columns |
Resolution | 1 kilometer |
Science Data Sets (SDS HDF Layers) | 20 |
Science Data Sets for MODIS Terra+Aqua BRDF/Albedo 16-Day L3 Global 1km SIN Grid V005 (MCD43B3):
Science Data Sets (HDF Layers) 20 |
UNITS | BIT TYPE | FILL | VALID RANGE | MULTIPLY BY SCALE FACTOR |
Albedo_BSA_Band_1 (Black Sky Albedo) | Albedo, no units | 16-bit signed integer | 32767 | 0–32766 | 0.0010 |
Albedo_BSA_Band_2 (Black Sky Albedo) | Albedo, no units | 16-bit signed integer | 32767 | 0–32766 | 0.0010 |
Albedo_BSA_Band_3 (Black Sky Albedo) | Albedo, no units | 16-bit signed integer | 32767 | 0–32766 | 0.0010 |
Albedo_BSA_Band_4 (Black Sky Albedo) | Albedo, no units | 16-bit signed integer | 32767 | 0–32766 | 0.0010 |
Albedo_BSA_Band_5 (Black Sky Albedo) | Albedo, no units | 16-bit signed integer | 32767 | 0–32766 | 0.0010 |
Albedo_BSA_Band_6 (Black Sky Albedo) | Albedo, no units | 16-bit signed integer | 32767 | 0–32766 | 0.0010 |
Albedo_BSA_Band_7 (Black Sky Albedo) | Albedo, no units | 16-bit signed integer | 32767 | 0–32766 | 0.0010 |
Albedo_BSA_Band_vis (Black Sky Albedo) | Albedo, no units | 16-bit signed integer | 32767 | 0–32766 | 0.0010 |
Albedo_BSA_Band_nir (Black Sky Albedo) | Albedo, no units | 16-bit signed integer | 32767 | 0–32766 | 0.0010 |
Albedo_BSA_Band_shortwave (Black Sky Albedo) | Albedo, no units | 16-bit signed integer | 32767 | 0–32766 | 0.0010 |
Albedo_WSA_Band_1 (White Sky Albedo) | Albedo, no units | 16-bit signed integer | 32767 | 0–32766 | 0.0010 |
Albedo_WSA_Band_2 (White Sky Albedo) | Albedo, no units | 16-bit signed integer | 32767 | 0–32766 | 0.0010 |
Albedo_WSA_Band_3 (White Sky Albedo) | Albedo, no units | 16-bit signed integer | 32767 | 0–32766 | 0.0010 |
Albedo_WSA_Band_4 (White Sky Albedo) | Albedo, no units | 16-bit signed integer | 32767 | 0–32766 | 0.0010 |
Albedo_WSA_Band_5 (White Sky Albedo) | Albedo, no units | 16-bit signed integer | 32767 | 0–32766 | 0.0010 |
Albedo_WSA_Band_6 (White Sky Albedo) | Albedo, no units | 16-bit signed integer | 32767 | 0–32766 | 0.0010 |
Albedo_WSA_Band_7 (White Sky Albedo) | Albedo, no units | 16-bit signed integer | 32767 | 0–32766 | 0.0010 |
Albedo_WSA_Band_vis (White Sky Albedo) | Albedo, no units | 16-bit signed integer | 32767 | 0–32766 | 0.0010 |
Albedo_WSA_Band_nir (White Sky Albedo) | Albedo, no units | 16-bit signed integer | 32767 | 0–32766 | 0.0010 |
Albedo_WSA_Band_shortwave (White Sky Albedo) | Albedo, no units | 16-bit signed integer | 32767 | 0–32766 | 0.0010 |
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