MODIS Surface Albedo

The MODIS Surface Albedo and Surface Reflectance Dataset (or simply Albedo) includes times series of 10-day composite products derived at 250-m spatial resolution over Canadian territory and neighboring areas produced at the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing (CCRS) since February 2000.The datasets contain spectral and broadband reflectance’s and albedo for MODIS bands B1-B7 designed primarily for land applications. The imagery for all spectral bands was downscaled and re-projected into the Lambert Conformal Conic (LCC) projection at 250-m spatial resolution. The area size is 5,700 km × 4,800 km. The specialized MODIS processing system was developed at CCRS to fully utilize the high quality of MODIS L2 swath imagery over the northern latitudes. As such, the CCRS Albedo product is different from the standard NASA product. The differences are related to temporal and spatial scaling, shape of kernel functions employed to fit data, as well as details of scene identification, atmospheric correction, and data fitting methodology.

The data is hosted on AWS; users can follow the tutorial (https://github.com/OpsCCRS/AWS-Open-Data-Registry-Preparation/blob/main/CCRSMODISAlbedo/get-to-know-adataset-CCRSMODISAlbedo.ipynb) to access the data or via the URL in Data Resources for each year.

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Date ( RI_366 )
2017-01-01
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2023-01-02
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  Government of Canada;Natural Resources Canada;CCMEO/GEMS/CCRS - Alexander Trichtchenko ( Research Scientist )
580 Booth Street , Ottawa , Ontario , K1A 0E8 ,
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  Government of Canada;Natural Resources Canada;CCMEO/GEMS/CCRS - Calin Ungureanu ( Physical Scientist )
Status
onGoing; enContinue RI_596
Maintenance and update frequency
biannually; semestriel RI_538
Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada ( RI_528 )
  • Satellite images
  • Remote sensing
Use limitation
Open Government Licence - Canada (http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada)
Access constraints
license; licence RI_606
Use constraints
license; licence RI_606
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Metadata language
eng; CAN
Topic category
  • Imagery base maps earth cover
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2000-02-01
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  Government of Canada;Natural Resources Canada;CCMEO/GEMS/CCRS - Alexander Trichtchenko ( Research Scientist )
580 Booth Street , Ottawa , Ontario , K1A 0E8 ,
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2021 MODIS Surface Albedo and Surface Reflectance Dataset ( HTTPS )

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2020 MODIS Surface Albedo and Surface Reflectance Dataset ( HTTPS )

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2000 MODIS Surface Albedo and Surface Reflectance Dataset ( HTTPS )

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The Registry of Open Data on AWS- CCRS MODIS albedo over Canada ( HTTPS )

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2001 MODIS Surface Albedo and Surface Reflectance Dataset ( HTTPS )

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2002 MODIS Surface Albedo and Surface Reflectance Dataset ( HTTPS )

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File identifier
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Metadata language
eng; CAN
Character set
utf8; utf8 RI_458
Hierarchy level
dataset; jeuDonnées RI_622
Date stamp
2026-02-20T09:49:22
Metadata standard name
North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 - Geographic information - Metadata
Metadata standard version
CAN/CGSB-171.100-2009
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  Government of Canada;Natural Resources Canada;CCMEO/GEMS/CCRS - Alexander Trichtchenko ( Research Scientist )
580 Booth Street , Ottawa , Ontario , K1A 0E8 , Canada
 
 

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