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MODIS Land Product Subsets: Log of Activities

  (History of the MODIS (Terra) Instrument Operations)
Satellite Collection Date Products Sites Event
Terra and Aqua  January 23 2009  All products(Except MOD12Q1, MOD12Q2 and MCD43A)  Global  ORNL DAAC released a beta version of MODIS subsetting Web Service. The subsetting Web Service allows users to create subsets up to 201 x 201 sq.km for any location on Earth 
http://daac.ornl.gov/modiswebservice 
Terra and Aqua  December 14, 2008  All products(Except MOD12Q1, MOD12Q2)  Global  Capability to create stackable time series was added to the MODIS global tool. 
Terra and Aqua  June 13, 2008  All products  1147  ORNL DAAC added 95 new sites to its MODIS fixed sites subset visualization tool. These subsets include sites from NSIDC's subset request for GC-Net and IASAO stations. Many new Flux tower locations are also in this site list.  
Terra and Aqua  March 10, 2008  All products(Except MOD12Q1 and MOD12Q2)  Global  ORNL DAAC released the MODIS Collection 5 Global subsetting tool. This tool allows users to create subsets up to 201 x 201 sq.km for any location on Earth 
http://daac.ornl.gov/modisglobal 
Terra and Aqua  March 10, 2008  All products(Except MOD12Q1 and MOD12Q2)  1147  ORNL DAAC released the MODIS Collection 5 subsets for fixed sites. This tool provides users subsets of more than 1000 sites in ASCII and GeoTIFF data format 
http://daac.ornl.gov/modisfixedsite 
Terra and Aqua  November 5, 2007  All products(Except MOD12Q1 and MOD12Q2)  Global  ORNL DAAC released a beta version of the MODIS Collection 5 Global Subsetting Tool. This tool allows users to create subsets up to 201 x 201 sq. km for any location on Earth. 
Terra  November 2, 2007  MOD15GFS  North America  ORNL DAAC added the Gap Filled and Smoothened LAI/fpar product (MOD15GFS) to the North America Subsetting Tool. 
Terra and Aqua  November 1, 2007  All products(Except MOD12Q1 and MOD12Q2)  1147  ORNL DAAC added the MODIS GeoTIFF subsets to a MODIS Sinusoidal webGIS. MODIS GeoTIFFs were also made available for download. 
Terra and Aqua  June 2007  All products(Except MOD12Q1 and MOD12Q2)  1147  ORNL DAAC started processing MODIS fixed site subsets into GeoTIFF format. 
Terra and Aqua  April 2007  All products(Except MOD12Q1 and MOD12Q2)  1147  ORNL DAAC released a beta version of the Collection 5 ASCII visualization tools. 
Terra and Aqua  December 8, 2006  All products(Except MOD12Q1 and MOD12Q2)  1147  ORNL DAAC started posting the Collection 5 ASCII subsets. 
Terra  4.8  September 29, 2006  MOD17A2 and MOD17A3  280  ORNL DAAC started posting the reprocessed Gross and Net Primary Production (MOD17) products (Collection 4.8). 
Terra and Aqua  September 29, 2006  All products  280  Fixed a bug in the time series visualization tool that resulted in data from an older processing date to be plotted. Now data for the most recently processed date are plotted, if multiple processing dates exist for the same MODIS acquisition date. Note that this bug did not affect the ASCII data files; any ASCII files downloaded were from the most recent processing. 
Terra and Aqua  September 29, 2006  MOD12Q2  280  Land Cover Dynamics product (MOD12Q2) was made available 
Terra and Aqua  Collection 4 products with field sites from both Collection 4 and 5  September 29, 2006  All products  North America  North America Subsetting and visualization tool upgraded to version 4_a. 
North America Subsetting and Visualization Tool 
Terra and Aqua  April 3, 2006  All products  280  The ORNL DAAC augmented its ASCII Subsets product by preparing and distributing subsets of Land Products in GeoTIFF format. 
Terra and Aqua  April 3, 2006  All products  North America  A new subsetting and visualization tool for creeating subsets in ASCII format for user-selected areas in North America was made available. 
North America Subsetting and Visualization Tool 
Terra  April 5, 2004  MOD09A1,MOD11A2, MOD13A2, MOD15A2, MOD17A2,MOD17A3, MOD43B1, MOD43B4  274  ORNL DAAC resampled the data so that the center pixel in the 7 x & km grid contains the field site or flux tower. 
Terra  April 5, 2004  MOD12Q1  253  ORNL DAAC resampled the data so that the center pixel in the 7 x 7 km grid contains the field site or flux tower. 
Aqua  April 5, 2004  MYD09A1, MYD11A2, MYD13A2, MYD15A2, MYD17A2, MYD17A3  274  ORNL DAAC resampled the data so that the center pixel in the 7 x 7 km grid contains the field site or flux tower. 
Aqua and Terra (combined)  April 5, 2004  MCD43B1 and MCD43B4  274  ORNL DAAC started posting the combined Aqua and Terra MCD43B products for 274 sites. These products have the field site or tower in the center of the 7 km x 7 km grid. 
Aqua  April 5, 2004  MYD09A1, MYD11A2, MYD13A2, MYD15A2, MYD17A2, MYD17A3  274  ORNL DAAC started posting the Aqua Collection 4 products for 274 sites. These products have the field site or tower in the center of the 7 km x 7 km grid. 
Aqua and Terra  3 & 4  April 5, 2004  all products  274  Began using the MODIS reprojection tool (MRT) version 3.1a to reformat HDF-EOS for conversion to ASCII 
Terra  4.5  February 27, 2004  MOD17A2 and MOD17A3  274  ORNL DAAC started posting the reprocessed MOD17 products. 
Aqua  June 4, 2003  MYD09A1, MYD11A2, MYD13A2, MYD15A2, MYD17A2, MYD17A3  274  ORNL DAAC started posting Aqua Collection 3 data for 274 sites. 
Terra  March 27, 2003  MOD17A3  274  ORNL DAAC started posting annual NPP for 2001 using Collection 4 algorithms 
Terra  February 10, 2003  MOD09A1,MOD11A2, MOD13A2, MOD15A2, MOD17A2,MOD43B1, MOD43B4  274  ORNL DAAC started posting Collection 4 products for 274 sites. 
Terra  January 22, 2003  MOD13A2, MOD15A2, MOD17A2  manmong, br00sant, br00jipa  MODIS Reprojection Tool (MRT) Version 3.0a used to reformat data into ASCII. All products for one site in Mongolia (manmong) and two in Brazil (br00sant, br00jipa) were reprocessed. All products for these 3 sites downloaded prior to December 12, 2002 should be discarded. 
Terra  December 31, 2002  NA  NA  Collection 3 processing ceased for all data acquired after December 31, 2002. 
Terra  December 17, 2002  MOD09A1  22  Began posting MOD09A1 products for 22 sites. 
Terra  December 17, 2002  MOD12Q1  253  Posted land cover based on Collection 3 algorithms and 12 months of data Nov-2000 through Oct-2001 
Terra  December 16, 2002  MOD17A2  22  Correct MOD17A2 products posted for 22 sites for 2002; all MOD17A2 products downloaded prior to July 2002 should be discarded. 
Terra  December 16, 2002  MOD13A2, MOD15A2, MOD17A2  22  Began using MODIS Reprojection Tool (MRT) Version 3.0 to reformat HDF-EOS for conversion into ASCII 
Terra  December 12, 2002  MOD13A2, MOD15A2, MOD17A2  manmong, br00sant, br00jipa  Error discovered in extracting subsets for all products for three sites, one in Mongolia (manmong) and two in Brazil (br00sant, br00jipa). Data for these three sites removed from ORNL ftp server area. 
Terra  October 25, 2002  MOD17A2  25  Correct MOD17A2 products posted for all sites for 2001 
Terra  July 1, 2002  MOD17A2  25  All MOD17A2 products removed from distribution because of an error in processing; all MOD17A2 products downloaded prior to July 2002 should be discarded. 
Terra  May 31, 2002  MOD13A2, MOD15A2, MOD17A2  25  ORNL DAAC begins to post MODIS ASCII Subsets based on Collection 3, MRT 2.2 for 3 products and 25 sites. The 7x7 km Subsets are in ISIN projection. 
Aqua    May 4, 2002      Aqua satellite launched 
Terra  March 19-28, 2002      No products produced during ~2-week period when MODIS was down 
Terra  November 1, 2001      Beginning of Collection 3 products, day 305 
Terra  June 14-20, 2001      No products produced during ~2-week period when MODIS was down 
Terra  February 2000      Beginning of Collection 4 products, day 49 
Terra    December 18, 1999      Terra satellite launched