MODIS Snow Cover over Asia

  • Released Thursday, July 4, 2002
  • Updated Monday, January 19, 2015 at 12:34PM
  • ID: 2485

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) provides data in 36 spectral bands, some of which are used in an algorithm to map global snow cover. The animation shows the dynamic behavior of the advance and retreat of continental snow cover over Asia for the winter of 2001-02 from MODIS-derived 8-day composite snow maps with a spatial resolution of about 5 km.
Video slate image reads "MODIS Snow Cover over Asia during the Winter of 2001-2002".

Video slate image reads "MODIS Snow Cover over Asia during the Winter of 2001-2002".



Credits

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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio. Snow Data Preparation was done by The MODIS Snow & Ice Team, Janet Y. L. Chien. Blue Marble data courtesy of Reto Stockli. Technical Assistance from the following SVS team members: Randall Jones, Kevin Mahoney, Marte Newcombe, Tom Bridgman, Lori Perkins, Gregory Shirah, Eric Sokolowsky, James Williams.


Missions

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Datasets used in this visualization

Terra and Aqua Blue Marble Cloud Cover (Collected with the MODIS sensor)

Credit: The Blue Marble data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC).

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Terra and Aqua Blue Marble Land Cover (Collected with the MODIS sensor)

Credit: The Blue Marble data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC).

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Terra Snow Cover 8-day composite L3 Global 0.05Deg CMG (MOD10C2) (Collected with the MODIS sensor)

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