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01.31.2013 - Scheduled Maintenance February 5-6, 2013
LAADS will be performing scheduled maintenance from
Tuesday, February 5, 2013 04:00 PM EST to
Wednesday, February 6, 2013 04:00 PM EST.
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11.19.2012 - MERIS Level 1B RR and FRS Data Sets Now Available
The MERIS Level 1B reduced resolution (RR) and full resolution (FRS) data
sets are now available through LAADS Web.
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11.05.2012 - Scheduled Maintenance November 6, 2012
MODAPS Web Services will be performing scheduled maintenance Tuesday,
November 6, 2012 from 7:00 AM to 8:00 AM EST.
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11.05.2012 - MODIS/Terra Collection 6 Level 1, Cloud Mask and Atmospheric Profile Products Released
The MODIS science team has completed and released the Collection 6 (C6)
reprocessing of the Terra Level 1 (L1), Cloud Mask and Atmospheric Profile
products.
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10.29.2012 - LAADS Archive Status
Currently, we are experiencing hardware related issues and LAADS Web/Ftp data access
are not be available at this time.
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10.24.2012 - Proposed C6 Aqua L1 and Cloud Mask Reprocessing Canceled
After reviewing the science test data produced for January and June 2012,
the Univ. of Wisconsin atmosphere group has concluded that there is no
compelling need for a reprocessing of the Aqua C6 data as previously
proposed for the time period 2009/208 - 2012/183.
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09.24.2012 - Proposed C6 Aqua L1 and Cloud Mask Reprocessing
The Aqua cold Focal Plane temperatures currently experience an increasing
orbital oscillation due to a decrease in radiative cooler margin.
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09.10.2012 - MODAPS Web Services Version 1.3.4 Release
Version 1.3.4 of the MODAPS Web Services has been released.
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08.29.2012 - Scheduled Maintenance September 5, 2012
LAADS will be performing scheduled maintenance Wednesday, September 5, 2012
from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM EDT.
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08.23.2012 - Update on LAADS FTP Issues
The LAADS FTP site continues to experience intermittent errors due to ongoing
maintenance on the archive disks.
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08.13.2012 - Scheduled Maintenance August 21, 2012
LAADS will be performing scheduled maintenance Tuesday, August 21, 2012
from 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM EST.
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07.23.2012 - LAADS FTP Issues
The LAADS FTP server has been experiencing intermittent errors. We are aware
of the errors and are working on a solution.
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07.18.2012 - MODIS/Aqua Collection 6 Level 1, Cloud Mask and Atmospheric Profile Products Released
The MODIS science team has completed and released the Collection 6 (C6)
reprocessing of the Aqua Level 1 (L1), Cloud Mask and Atmospheric Profile
products.
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07.11.2012 - Suomi NPP VIIRS Archive Clean-up
The Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) Visible Infrared Imaging
Spectro-Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) data product archive clean-up is in
progress.
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02.24.2012 - Scheduled Maintenance March 01, 2012
LAADS will be performing scheduled maintenance Thursday, March 01, 2012
from 6:30 AM to 08:30 PM EST.
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02.21.2012 - Emergency Maintenance February 21, 2012
LAADS will be performing an emergency maintenance Tuesday, February 21, 2012
from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM EST.
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02.10.2012 - WIST Retirement
For WIST users, WIST is being retired and replaced by Reverb. WIST will be taken offline on February 22nd, 2012. We encourage you to start using Reverb, available at https://reverb.echo.nasa.gov. If you would like to continue to use WIST for now you can navigate to https://wist-ops.echo.nasa.gov.
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02.07.2012 - LAADS FTP Issues
The LAADS FTP site is experiencing intermittent issues.
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01.31.2012 - NPP VIIRS Beta Product Release
Beta versions of the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) Visible
Infrared Imaging Spectro-Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) data products are now
available through LAADS for community evaluation.
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01.30.2012 - MODAPS Web Coverage Service (WCS) Version 1.0 Release
A Web Coverage Service (WCS) is now available for MODAPS.
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01.12.2012 - Scheduled Maintenance January 19, 2012
LAADS will be performing scheduled maintenance Thursday, January 19, 2012
from 9:00 AM to 02:00 PM EST.
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12.07.2011 - Scheduled Maintenance December 28, 2011
LAADS will be performing scheduled maintenance Wednesday, December 28, 2011
from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM EST.
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10.18.2011 - Scheduled Maintenance October 20, 2011
LAADS will be performing scheduled maintenance Thursday, October 20, 2011
from 10:00 to 11:00 AM EDT.
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08.26.2011 - Possible system downtime Tuesday, 8/30/11 from 6:30am to 7:30am EDT
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08.08.2011 - Scheduled Maintenance August 11, 2011
LAADS will be performing scheduled maintenance Thursday, August 11, 2011
from 10:00 AM EDT to 12:00 PM EDT.
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07.28.2011 - Scheduled Maintenance August 1, 2011
LAADS will be performing scheduled maintenance Monday, August 1, 2011
from 2:00 PM EDT to 3:00 PM EDT.
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06.10.2011 - Issue with FTP Site allData Directory
Due to a recent data move, some of the links to the data files in the allData
directory on our anonymous FTP site are broken.
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04.04.2011 - MODAPS Web Services Version 1.3 Release
Version 1.3 of the MODAPS Web Services has been released.
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04.03.2011 - Scheduled Maintenance Completed
The LAADS maintenance scheduled for this weekend, April 1 - 4, 2011,
has been completed and LAADS Web is now available.
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03.25.2011 - Scheduled Maintenance April 1 - 4, 2011
LAADS will be performing scheduled maintenance starting on Friday,
April 1, 2011 at 3:00PM EDT and ending late Monday, April 4, 2011.
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03.15.2011 - Emergency Maintenance On LAADS
We are in the processing of doing some emergency maintenance on LAADS due
to a hardware problem.
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02.08.2011 - LAADS Data Access
Due to a network change at the Goddard facilities, LAADS data
availability will be intermittent today, Tuesday, February 08 2011 between
3:00pm (EST) - 4:30pm (EST).
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01.20.2011 - MCD43A* and MCD43B*
The 16-day composite BRDF/Albedo product (MCD43) for the period
2010337 through 2011001 may have been generated using a wrong version of
the PGE (V5.0.17) at MODAPS.
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01.19.2011 - MCD43A* and MCD43B*
There is an issue with the recent MCD43A* and MCD43B* products that were
produced for the periods that start on days 2010177, 2010337, 2010345
and 2010353. These products are not optimal due to incorrect code that
was loaded into operations by CM and SSTG in December.
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12.17.2010 - Data Availability in LAADS
We are experiencing some hardware difficulties which may result in some
data not being available.
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12.06.2010 - Emergency Maintenance On LAADS
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11.18.2010 - Scheduled Maintenance
There will be a system wide downtime for maintenance on LAADS and MODAPS
processing machines on Tuesday, November 23 from 6am (EST) through 5pm
(EST).
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11.15.2010 - MODAPS Web Services Version 1.2 Release
Version 1.2 of the MODAPS Web Services has been released.
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09.30.2010 - Data Quality Alert for Terra Collection 51 Cloud Products
Some cloud products including MOD06_L2, MODATML2, MOD08_D3, MOD08_E3 and
MOD08_M3 were subject to a processing flaw and have or are being
reprocessed. Flawed products were moved to Collection 519.
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08.26.2010 - MODAPS Web Services Version 1.1 Release
Version 1.1 of the MODAPS Web Services will be released on Monday,
August 30, 2010.
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07.27.2010 - Advisory to MODIS Atmosphere Product Users
Effective July 28, 2010, NOAA/NCEP is updating the model that provides
MODIS algorithms with 6-hour gridded (GDAS) atmospheric temperature and
moisture profiles.
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07.16.2010 - MODAPS Web Services Access Restricted
Access to the MODAPS Web Services has been restricted to users who provide
us with a fixed IP address from which they will be accessing the service.
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07.07.2010 - LAADS Scheduled Maintenance
The LAADS system will undergo maintenance from Tuesday July 13, 2010
5:00pm (EDT) through Thursday July 15, 2010 10am (EDT).
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06.17.2010 - LAADS Scheduled Maintenance
Some data in the LAADS archive will be unavailable on Tuesday,
June 22, 2010, between 8:00am and 10am (GMT) for scheduled maintenance.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
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06.09.2010 - Emergency Maintenance On LAADS
The LAADS system is currently unavailable due to emergency maintenance.
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06.02.2010 - Software Update
LAADS Web is no longer providing HTTP access to the /allData and /orders
directories.
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04.06.2010 - MODAPS Web Services Release
A web service interface that provides a streamlined method for delivering
MODIS products and services is now available in LAADS.
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03.31.2010 - Terra Collection 051 L2 Data Available
Collection 051 Terra reprocessing began in late March 2010.
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03.25.2010 - LAADS Scheduled Maintenance
The LAADS will not be available from March 31, 2010 16:00 through April 1, 2010 19:00 due to scheduled maintenance at our computing facility. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you.
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02.16.2010 - LAADS Scheduled Maintenance
The LAADS system will be performing scheduled maintenance on Tuesday,
Febrary 23rd, from 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm.
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02.12.2010 - LAADS Scheduled Maintenance
The LAADS system will be performing scheduled maintenance on Wednesday,
Febrary 17th, from 10:00 am - 4:00 pm.
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02.10.2010 - LAADS Archive Status
Currently, we are experiencing hardware related issues and all data access
may not be available at this time.
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01.16.2010 - Forward Processing Delayed
MODIS forward processing will be down for 3-5 days due to a hardware
problem.
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12.29.2009 - LAADS Scheduled Maintenance
The LAADS system will be performing scheduled maintenance on January 4th
from 11:00 am - 2:00 pm.
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12.28.2009 - AQUA Forward Processing Delayed
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11.14.2009 - LAADS Data Access
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11.09.2009 - LAADS Scheduled Maintenance
The LAADS system will be performing scheduled maintenance on November 12th
from 10:00 am - 2:00 pm.
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10.22.2009 - LAADS Scheduled Maintenance
The LAADS system will be performing scheduled maintenance on October 28th
from 07:00 am - 3:00 pm.
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09.23.2009 - LAADS System Problems
LAADS is currently experiencing intermittent connectivity problems.
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09.22.2009 - LAADS Scheduled Maintenance
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09.17.2009 - Emergency Maintenance On LAADS
The LAADS system is currently unavailable due to emergency maintenance.
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09.09.2009 - TERRA Spacecraft Anomaly
Terra experienced 2 more SFE-A anomalies.
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09.01.2009 - Terra Data Loss
Due to significant power issues with TDS, the Terra FOT has had to work
extremely hard (high buffers and blind acquisitions) to ensure data
capture.
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08.28.2009 - Software Update
An update to the LAADS Web software will be installed on Wednesday,
September 2, 2009.
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08.27.2009 - TERRA Spacecraft Anomaly
The Terra Spacecraft experienced an anomaly with the Science Formatter
Equipment (SFE) today,
8/26/09, at 13:56z.
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07.30.2009 - Scheduled Maintenance
The LAADS system and all MODIS production will be down from
Tuesday, August 4th at 5pm through Thursday, August 6th at 3pm (EDT)
for maintenance.
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06.30.2009 - Scheduled Maintenance
We will be performing maintenance on the LAADS' system on Tuesday, June 30
between 11am and 1pm.
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06.22.2009 - Scheduled Maintenance
We will be performing maintenance on all systems on Thursday, June 25
between 10am and 11am.
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05.27.2009 - L0 Archive Downtime
L0 data will not be available today, Wednesday, May 27, 2009 between 10AM and
6PM (EST) while MODAPS completes some scheduled maintenance.
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05.26.2009 - LAADS Data Access
Due to a network upgrade at the Goddard facilities, LAADS data
availability will be intermittent on Thursday, May 28 2009 between
6:00am (EST) - 4:00pm (EST).
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05.19.2009 - Scheduled Maintenance
Due to scheduled maintenance, there will be no forward processed data
available from Tuesday, May 26, 2009 10:00am (EST) through Wednesday,
May 27, 2009 2:00pm (EST).
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05.08.2009 - LAADS Archive Status
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04.23.2009 - LAADS Archive Status
The power to LAADS has been restored.
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04.16.2009 - Power Outage
MODAPS will be down from Monday, April 20 2009 17:00EST through Thursday,
April 23 2009 12:00EST due to a scheduled power outage in our processing
facility.
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03.24.2009 - LAADS Scheduled Maintenance
LAADS will be unavailable on Tuesday March 31, 2009 between 10:00am and
2:00pm for scheduled maintenance.
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03.16.2009 - LAADS Scheduled Maintenance
LAADS will be unavailable on Wednesday March 18, 2009 between 10:00am and
12:00pm for scheduled maintenance.
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03.16.2009 - Emergency Maintenance On LAADS
The LAADS system will be unavailable, beginning at 2:00pm today
for 10-15 minutes, due to emergency maintenance.
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03.05.2009 - Emergency Maintenance On LAADS
We are in the processing of doing some emergency maintenance on LAADS due
to a hardware problem.
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02.13.2009 - Network Issues
The Goddard Network is experiencing sporadic and multiple failures of
network services.
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02.12.2009 - Power Outages
We are expecting a power outage this month to upgrade the power systems
at the center.
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02.11.2009 - L0 Archive Downtime
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02.05.2009 - LAADS System Problems
LAADS is currently experiencing intermittent disk problems.
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01.23.2009 - LAADS System Problems
LAADS is currently experiencing intermittent problems.
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01.14.2009 - Emergency Maintenance On LAADS
The LAADS system will be unavailable, beginning at approximately 11:30am,
due to emergency maintenance.
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12.22.2008 - TERRA Spacecraft Anomaly
There was a Spacecraft Anomaly for the TERRA spacecraft starting on day
2008/355.
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12.09.2008 - LAADS Data Access
Due to system maintenance, LAADS data availability will
be intermittent over the next 72 hours.
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11.12.2008 - LAADS Scheduled Maintenance
LAADS will be unavailable on Friday November 14, 2008 between 10:00am and
2:00pm for scheduled maintenance.
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11.10.2008 - Aqua Collection 5.1 Data Production
Starting in early November 2008 reprocessed and forward processed Aqua
atmospheres Collection 5.1 data products will be generated and will be
archived in the LAADS.
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10.09.2008 - Emergency Maintenance On LAADS
The LAADS system is currently unavailble due to emergency maintenance.
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09.10.2008 - Spacecraft Maneuvers
A list of Terra and Aqua spacecraft maneuvers is posted at
http://modland.nascom.nasa.gov/.
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09.10.2008 - LAADS Orders
As a result of LAADS disk issues today, some data staged for orders has
been lost.
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08.16.2008 - LAADS System Problems
LAADS is currently experiencing intermittent problems.
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08.07.2008 - LAADS Scheduled Maintenance
LAADS will be unavailable on Tuesday August 12, 2008 between 9:30am and
3:30pm for scheduled maintenance.
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08.06.2008 - LAADS Scheduled Maintenance
LAADS is currently experiencing intermittent problems.
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07.11.2008 - MODASRVN/MYDASRVN Data Now Available
MODASRVN and MYDASRVN data, from the AERONET-based Surface Reflectance
Validation Network, is now available through LAADS.
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06.24.2008 - LAADS Scheduled Maintenance
LAADS scheduled maintenance for today has been extended to 3:30pm.
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06.20.2008 - LAADS Scheduled Maintenance
LAADS will be unavailable on Tuesday June 24, 2008 between 9am and
12pm for scheduled maintenance.
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06.05.2008 - Emergency Maintenance On LAADS
We are in the processing of doing some emergency maintenance on LAADS due
to a hardware problem.
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05.20.2008 - LAADS Scheduled Maintenance
LAADS will be unavailable on Thursday May 22, 2008 from 9:30am to 3:30pm
for scheduled maintenance.
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05.19.2008 - LAADS POD Order Retention
Beginning June 1, 2008, the retention period for POD orders will be
reduced from 7 days to 5 days.
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05.17.2008 - Emergency Maintenance On LAADS
The LAADS system is currently unavailble due to emergency maintenance.
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05.16.2008 - Emergency Maintenance On LAADS
The LAADS system is currently unavailble due to emergency maintenance.
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05.05.2008 - LAADS Scheduled Maintenance
LAADS Web, and L0 Archive, will be unavailable on Tuesday May 06, 2008
from 1:00pm until 2:30pm for maintenance.
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04.11.2008 - Emergency Maintenance On LAADS
The LAADS system is currently unavailble due to emergency maintenance.
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03.12.2008 - Call for Nominations for 2008 William T. Pecora Award
The William T. Pecora Award is presented annually to individuals or
groups that have made outstanding contributions toward understanding the
Earth by means of remote sensing.
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03.10.2008 - LAADS Scheduled Maintenance
LAADS will be unavailable on Thursday March 13, 2008 between 10am and
11am for scheduled maintenance.
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02.25.2008 - LAADS Scheduled Maintenance
LAADS Web will be unavailable on Tuesday February 26, 2008 from 6:00am
until 3:00pm for maintenance.
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01.14.2008 - LAADS Scheduled Maintenance
LAADS will be unavailable on Wednesday January 16, 2008 between 10am and
11am for scheduled maintenance.
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12.19.2007 - LAADS Scheduled Maintenance
LAADS will be unavailable on December 26, 2007 between 9am and 12pm for
scheduled maintenance.
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11.28.2007 - LAADS Web Search Change
As of December 5, 2007, only online data products will be selected by
default on the LAADS Web search results page.
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11.23.2007 - LAADS Scheduled Maintenance
LAADS will be unavailable on Wednesday, November 28, 2007 from 10am
through 1pm EST for scheduled maintenance.
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11.09.2007 - MODIS forward processing
MODIS forward processing will be down until Sunday, November 11, 2007.
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07.12.2007 - LAADS System Problem Has Effected Data and Orders from July 2-9, 2007
We have lost some data fields in our database due to a system problem.
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07.09.2007 - LAADS system problems
The LAADS system is experiencing system difficulties which are currently
under investigation by the development group.
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06.18.2007 - Collection 4 products will be removed from LAADS on August 1, 2007
Level 2 products from the MODIS Collection 4 Atmosphere reprocessing
campaign will be removed from the LAADS archive on August 1, 2007.
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06.14.2007 - LAADS Scheduled Maintenance
Scheduled maintenance has been planned for Tuesday, June 19 2007 starting
at 0900 EDT and is expected to last for approximately 2.5 hours.
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03.30.2007 - Terra forward processing
Following various complaints from users, it was determined that an
erroneous L1B LUT was loaded into operations on January 27, 2007.
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03.15.2007 - Aqua Aerosols reprocessing
After discussion by atmospheres discipline staff it was decided to re-start
this reprocessing in order to correct the QA flags associated with deep
blue algorithm.
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03.14.2007 - Scheduled Downtime
There will be a brief downtime on Friday Mar 16 2007 starting at
10:00 AM EDT.
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03.08.2007 - Upcoming outage for scheduled maintenance.
On Tuesday, March 13 2007, from approximately 7:00AM until 3:00PM DST the
LAADS Web will be down for power upgrade and maintenance.
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02.14.2007 - Completion of transition of MODIS L1 and Atmospheric Data
The transition of the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
(MODIS) L1 (radiance) and Atmospheric data products and services from
the Goddard Earth Sciences (GES) Distributed Active Archive Center
(DAAC) to the MODIS Adaptive Processing System (MODAPS) / Level 1 and
Atmosphere Archive and Distribution System (LAADS) was completed in
early January.
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01.22.2007 - Scheduled Maintenance for L0 archive
There is maintenance scheduled for the L0 archive on Jan 24 2007 from
10:00 AM to 12:00 PM.
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01.22.2007 - LAADS Web Order Size Increase.
The maximum order size for LAADS Web orders has been increased to 6000
files.
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01.10.2007 - Please be advised
A test machine has been established with access to the complete LAADS
archive.
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12.04.2006 - LAADS Version 4 Transition
LAADS Version 4 was brought into operations 11/28/06.
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11.27.2006 - LAADS Version 4 Coming Soon
We will take advantage of the power outage on Tuesday, November 28, 2006 to
upgrade LAADS from Version 3 to Version 4.
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11.22.2006 - LAADS Downtime Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Both LAADS Web and the LAADS FTP server will be down this Tuesday,
November 28, 2006 due to a power outage.
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11.16.2006 - Availability of Collection 4 L1 and Atmospheres Data from LAADS
There has apparently been some confusion concerning the availability of
Collection 4 data products from LAADS and from the GES DAAC and hopefully
the following explanation will mitigate any end user problems.
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10.10.2006 - M*D02QKM Reproject Problem
Due to a memory problem in our reprojection tool it is not currently
possible to reproject M*D02QKM products.
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09.12.2006 - Data Availability for Collection 5 Land and Combined data.
MODAPS has conducted the deletion of Collection 5 Land data, but it will
take some time for this deletion to be reflected in the Data Availability
Chart.
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08.09.2006 - Transition of MODIS Data Services from the GES DAAC to MODAPS at NASA GSFC in Greenbelt, MD
Effective August 9, 2006, the MODIS Adaptive Processing System (MODAPS) will
become the source for MODIS Collection 5 Aqua Level 1 (L1) and Atmospheres
data products.
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08.01.2006 - New Data Availability Report
The Data Availability report has been enhanced to provide users with a
complete overview of the data available in LAADS.
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04.06.2006 - LAADS Web Version 3
Welcome to LAADS Web Version 3! Enhancements included expanded search and
post processing capabilities and a shopping cart.
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04.05.2006 - Atmospheres Reprocessing
Collection 5 Aqua reprocessing and forward processing started on
April 5, 2006.
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