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The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), as a key research instrument, was successfully launched on Dec. 18, 1999 onboard the Terra (previously known as EOS AM-1) satellite. The second MODIS was launched onboard the Aqua (EOS PM-1) satellite in May 2002 (http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov). Because the MODIS senses all the Earth’s surface in 36 spectral bands spanning the visible (0.415 µm) to infrared (14.235 µm) spectrum at nadir spatial resolution of 1 km, 500 m and 250 m (Justice et al., 1998), the associated remote sensing applications are of interest not only to land, ocean, and atmosphere discipline researchers but also to application, interdisciplinary and environmental scientists (Salamonson et al., 1989, 2005).
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Qu, J.J., Kafatos, M., Hao, X., Dasgupta, S., Yang, KS. (2006). Global MODIS Remote Sensing Data for Local Usage: Vaccess/MAGIC. In: Qu, J.J., Gao, W., Kafatos, M., Murphy, R.E., Salomonson, V.V. (eds) Earth Science Satellite Remote Sensing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-37294-3_14
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