What is the difference between the Spatially Complete Albedo Product and the official MODIS albedo product (MOD43B3)?
The main difference is that a temporal interpolation technique has been applied to fill MOD43B3 pixels with geophysically realistic values. MOD43B3 pixels are filled due to that pixel not having an observation, being lower quality, or being snow-covered. Additional differences include the format (1CMG equal angle storage versus Sinusoidal projection of the MOD43B3 data), and that the filled product is snow-free whereas the MOD43B3 product is snow full. The spatially complete albedo product maintains MOD43B3 data of high quality and provides QA to discern which pixels are filled.
The main difference is that a temporal interpolation technique has been applied to fill MOD43B3 pixels with geophysically realistic values. MOD43B3 pixels are filled due to that pixel not having an observation, being lower quality, or being snow-covered. Additional differences include the format (1’CMG equal angle storage versus Sinusoidal projection of the MOD43B3 data), and that the filled product is snow-free whereas the MOD43B3 product is snow full. The spatially complete albedo product maintains MOD43B3 data of high quality and provides QA to discern which pixels are filled.
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