• Time is still needed for the community to evaluate and use C5 products
• For some products C5 will be the last reprocessing – e.g. VI, LAI
• Greater community outreach planned for C6
   - Montana Vegetation Workshop, June 2009
   - C6 test data sets will be available for review (see C6 QA page link at right)
• Expected start date of C6 processing April 2010
• Expected completion in March 2011
   - 11 years of MODIS/Terra and 8.5 years of MODIS/Aqua
• No data-gap – C5 will continue until reprocessing completes

The full Collection 5 reprocessing of MODIS Land data was completed in May of 2008.

Processing of the current MODIS Land collection (also known as Collection 5 or C5) commenced in September of 2006 starting with the first Terra data collected in February of 2000. Collection 5 forward processing, started at the beginning of 2007.

Summary information on the C5 product changes can be found at the link provided above. More detailed information on the C5 reprocessing effort in relation to specific MODIS Land products can be found in presentations by individual science team members made at the January 2007 C5 Workshop.

 

Link to news information from the MODIS web site

• Terra

• Aqua

• Science Team

Links to additional meeting and publication information from the MODIS web site

• MODIS Science Team Meetings

• MODIS Land Publications

Additional Information on C5 Reprocessing

• Collection 5 chagnes
• Use of C4 data with C5 data
• Land Quality Assessment

Additional Information on C6 Reprocessing

• Land Quality Assessment

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Last Updated: July 23, 2009