Dorothy K. Hall

TL;DR: The proposed MODIS standard products for land applications are described along with the current plans for data quality assessment and product validation.

TL;DR: The MODIS snow product suite as mentioned in this paper consists of a 500m resolution, 2330km swath snow-cover map which is then gridded to an integerized sinusoidal grid to produce daily and 8-day composite tile products.

TL;DR: The SNOMAP algorithm as discussed by the authors was developed to map global snow cover using Earth Observing System (EOS) Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data beginning at launch in 1998.

TL;DR: A suite of Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) snow products at various spatial and temporal resolutions from the Terra satellite has been available since February 2000 and most have been validated to varying degrees and are available to order through the National Snow and Ice Data Center as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the accuracy of the three products, namely, SMMR, NOAA/NESDIS and USAFGWC, and concluded that the results of the comparisons are good for uniform snow covered areas, such as the Canadian high plains and the Russian steppes.