The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), is a 36-band spectroradiometer measuring visible and infrared radiation and obtaining data that are being used to derive products ranging from vegetation, land surface cover, and ocean chlorophyll fluorescence to cloud and aerosol properties, fire occurrence, snow cover on the land, and sea ice cover on the oceans. The first MODIS instrument was launched on board the Terra satellite in December 1999, and the second was launched on Aqua in May 2002.
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Why should people use this category? What is it for? Learn how to program to acquire Aqua-Modis satellite images and other data, and learn how to compute with them to understand the inner structures of our planet’s oceans.
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What should topics in this category generally contain? Technical inquiries, software assistance and for the layman awareness to better understand the issues with planetary climate systems.
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This category is exclusive to MODIS satellite.