| Metric Finder |
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| Land Surface Type - Surface Type |
| Land Surface Type - Active Fires |
| Land Surface Type - Snow / Ice |
| Land Surface Type - Vegetation Fraction |
The apparent day to day changes in the surface type EDR browse maps were caused by resampling differences during regridding the static global surface type map to swathes and gridding the swath data to the browse maps. As long as the general global pattern of the browse map of the day shown here is stable, the surface type EDR is believed to be correct. Any large scale anomalies would indicate potential errors in the surface type EDR production that should get attention from product quality monitoring.
Standard abbreviations for surface type designations:
