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Image MODIS Collection by Louis Gonzalez

The goal of this collection is to provide series of exceptional images showing the major atmospheric effects or surface properties together with the corresponding data sets and image analysis tools.

The author would like to acknowledge for their contribution and support:

  • Distributed Active Archive Center / DAAC GSFC-902
  • MODIS Land Rapid Response system
  • Laboratory for Terrestrial Physics at NASA GSFC-922
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Choose a wallpaper:  2001   2002   2003   2004   2005   2006 

Select the global image data base or an area of interest:

an event a geographical zone a particular month
Collection 2
( 01/22/2007 )

What is distributed:

  1. A reduce image from the Jpeg 250 m image
  2. A GeoTif 250 m image
  3. The level1B (1km, 500m, 250m) MODIS data
  4. A Jpeg 250 m image

HDFLook image analysis tool (Download)

HDFLook runs under UNIX/LINUX OS X systems.
HDFLook will allow you to rebuild the images and to modify the color contrast or to create new user images combining the 32 bands of the MODIS data.

Smoke on South Vietnam.
The user is able to switch on the fly from the visible image to a "thermal anomalies image" showing the multiple fires:

Cambodia and Vietnam (Visible bands) Cambodia and Vietnam (Thermal anomalies)

HDFLook allows the user to build an image using several MODIS bands
(In the example, the high absorption by ice at 1.6 microns makes it appear clearly in red in contrast with liquid water clouds in white due to lower absorption.

Baffin Bay (Visible bands) Baffin Bay (Red band 2, Green band 4, Blue band 5)