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Since late 1980s, NASA has been developing the Earth Observing System (EOS), which is an integrated, multi-satellite, long-term program designed for monitoring Earth’s land, ocean, and atmosphere as an integrated system (Asrar and Dozier, 1994; King, 1999). Since the Terra and Aqua satellites launched in December 1999 and May 2002, we have entered a new era of Earth science satellite remote sensing. Particularly, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) applications are of interest not only to land, ocean, and atmosphere discipline researchers but also to application, interdisciplinary and environmental scientists because MODIS senses all of the Earth’s surface in 36 spectral bands spanning the visible (VIS, 0.415 µm) to infrared (14.235 µm) spectrum at nadir spatial resolutions of 1 km, 500 m and 250 m. It is also a new challenge to produce and distribute the EOS data to end-users. Barriers to wider use of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) data include: (1) MODIS datasets are too large for most users; (2) Native MODIS data files are stored in Hierarchical Data Format Earth Observing System (HDF-EOS), a file format that does not currently have wide support; (3) MODIS land and ocean product imagery is in a new map projection called the Integerized Sinusoidal (ISIN) projection; (4) most application users utilize Geographic Information System (GIS) system for input, management, analysis and visualization of data, but most GIS software can not handle HDF-EOS and ISIN projection currently (Qu et al., 2005).
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Qu, J.J., Kafatos, M. (2006). Introduction to Data, Computational Processing, and Tools of Satellite Remote Sensing. 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_1
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