Are there programs to read and use the spatially complete albedo products?
Yes. There is a page in this section called Analysis Tools. There are two tools listed on this page for download. The first allows users to spatially subset the albedo and ecosystem data (FilledMapSubsetter), while the second set of routines allows users to read in any file of the spatially complete suite of products (SpatialCompProd_IOUtils). These tools are written in FORTAN 90 with the HDF Toolkit.