Status for: Snow Cover/Sea Ice (MOD10/29)
General Accuracy Statement
Validation at stage 2 has been achieved for the MODIS C6 snow cover product (MOD10).
The accuracy of the MODIS snow extent product varies with land cover type, but overall, the accuracy under clear sky conditions has been assessed at 92% in various peer-reviewed publications. This validation stage will also hold for the next reprocessing, Collection 6.1., due in early 2020. The minor algorithm revisions made for C6.1 do not significantly affect the accuracy of the product.
Validation at stage 2 has been achieved for the MODIS Sea Ice product (MOD29).
To date, not many studies have been performed using the MODIS C6 1-km resolution Sea Ice product, but we are maintaining the validation stage 2 status.
In addition to those listed below, there are many more MODIS snow product publications posted on the Snow/Ice Project publications page at the NSIDC web site.
Product status updated: October 2019
Product version: Collection 6
Product version: Collection 6
Supporting Studies:
| Title: Evaluation of MODIS and VIIRS cloud-gap-filled snow-cover products for production of an Earth science data record |
| Author: Dorothy K. Hall, George A. Riggs, Nicolo E. DiGirolamo, and Miguel O. Román |
| Source: Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 23, 5227–5241, 2019 |
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| Title: A Multilayer Surface Temperature, Surface Albedo, and Water Vapor Product of Greenland from MODIS |
| Author: Hall, Dorothy K. and Cullather, Richard I. and DiGirolamo, Nicolo E. and Comiso, Josefino C. and Medley, Brooke C. and Nowicki, Sophie M. |
| Source: Remote Sens. 2018, 10(4), 555 |
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| Title: Detection of earlier snowmelt in the Wind River Range, Wyoming, using Landsat imagery, 1972-2013 |
| Author: Dorothy K. Hall, Christopher J. Crawford, Nicolo E. DiGirolamo, James L. Foster |
| Source: Remote Sensing of Environment, Volume 162, 1 June 2015, Pages 45-54 |
| View Abstract and Access Publication |
| Title: MODIS Terra Collection 6 fractional snow cover validation in mountainous terrain during spring snowmelt using Landsat TM and ETM+ |
| Author: Crawford, C.J. |
| Source: Hydrological Processes, Vol. 29, No. 1, 12-138, 2015 |
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| Title: MODIS Snow Cover Mapping Accuracy in a Small Mountain Catchment - Comparison between Open and Forest Sites |
| Author: J. Parajka, L. Holko, Z. Kostka, and G. Blöschl |
| Source: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences,16:2365-77 |
| View Abstract and Access Publication |
| Title: MODIS Snow and Ice Products - Assessment and Applications |
| Author: Riggs, G.A. and D.K. Hall, Bhaskar Ramachandran (ed.) |
| Source: Land Remote Sensing and Global Environmental Change - NASA's Earth Observing System and the Science of ASTER and MODIS, Springer, pp. 681-707. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4419-6749-7_30 |
| View Abstract and Access Publication |
| Title: Development and Evaluation of a Cloud-Gap-Filled MODIS Daily Snow-Cover Product |
| Author: Hall, D.K., G.A. Riggs, J.L. Foster, S. Kumar |
| Source: Remote Sensing of Environment, 114 (2010), 496-503, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2009.10.007 |
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| Title: Accuracy assessment of the MODIS snow products |
| Author: Dorothy K. Hall and George A. Riggs |
| Source: Hydrological Processes, 21, 1534-1547 (2007) |
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| Title: Commentary on comparison of MODIS snow cover and albedo products with ground observations over the mountainous terrain of Turkey |
| Author: A. Ü. Şorman, Z. Akyürek, A. Şensoy, A. A. Şorman, and A. E. Tekeli |
| Source: Hydrol. Earth Sys. Sci. Discuss., v. 3, no. 6, 3655-3673, 2006 |
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| Title: Validation of the MODIS snow product and cloud mask using student and NWS cooperative station observations in the Lower Great Lakes Region |
| Author: Timothy W. Ault , Kevin P. Czajkowski , Teresa Benko, James Coss, Janet Struble, Alison Spongberg, Mark Templin, Christopher Gross |
| Source: Remote Sensing of Environment 105 (2006) 341-353 |
| View Abstract and Access Publication |
| Title: Evaluation of the MODIS (MOD10A1) daily snow albedo product over the Greenland ice sheet |
| Author: Julienne Stroeve, Jason E. Box, Terry Haran |
| Source: Remote Sensing of Environment, Volume 105, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 155-171 |
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| Title: Validation of MODIS Snow Cover Images Over Austria |
| Author: J. Parajka and G. Blöschl |
| Source: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 10(5): 679-689. |
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| Title: An approach to using snow areal depletion curves inferred from MODIS and its application to land surface modelling in Alaska |
| Author: Stephen J. Déry, Vincent V. Salomonson, Marc Stieglitz, Dorothy K. Hall, Igor Appel |
| Source: Hydrological Processes, 19, 2755-2774 (2005) |
| View Abstract and Access Publication |
| Title: Comparison of MODIS Daily Global Fractional Snow Cover Maps at 0.05 and 0.25 Degree Resolutions |
| Author: George A. Riggs, Nicolo Digirolamo, Dorothy K. Hall |
| Source: 62nd EASTERN SNOW CONFERENCE Waterloo, ON, Canada 2005 |
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| Title: A comparison of MODIS and NOHRSC snow-cover products for simulating streamflow using the Snowmelt Runoff Model |
| Author: Songweon Lee, Andrew G. Klein and Thomas M. Over |
| Source: Hydrological Processes 19, 2951-2972 (2005) |
| View Abstract and Access Publication |
| Title: Updating a Land Surface Model with MODIS-Derived Snow Cover |
| Author: Matt Rodell and Paul R. Houser |
| Source: Journal of Hyrdrometerology, v 5, p. 1064 |
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| Title: Sea Ice Surface Temperature Product From MODIS |
| Author: Hall, D.K., J. R. Key, K. A. Casey, G. A. Riggs, D. J. Cavalieri |
| Source: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 42, No. 5, May 2004 |
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| Title: Validation of daily MODIS snow cover maps of the Upper Rio Grande River Basin for the 2000-2001 snow year |
| Author: Andrew G. Klein, Ann C. Barnett |
| Source: Remote Sensing of Environment 86 (2003) 162-176 |
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| Title: MODIS snow-cover products |
| Author: Hall, D.K., G.A. Riggs, V.V. Salomonson, N.E. DiGirolamo and K.J. Bayr |
| Source: Remote Sensing of Environment, 83 (2002) 181 - 194 |
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